Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

We invited our local Fire Fighters to visit us here at Lochduhar.  We were delighted when they accepted our invite.  In appreciation of what they do, one of our chefs Ross,  baked some beautiful cakes and bakes, there was tea, coffee and cold drinks for them too. The Fire Fighters even showed us how one of their hoses worked, and we also took a look around the engine. We boxed us some more cakes for the Fire Fighters on the night shift too! Our residents were so pleased to have them visit us.

We recently took some residents on a bus trip to Drummuir Farm Ice Cream Parlour.  This is very local to us, and as the weather has been warm we thought it would be a good idea for them, to be out in the sunshine. They chose vanilla and raspberry ripple flavours and they thoroughly enjoyed them.  We bought three large tubs to take back for the other residents at Lochduhar.

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Lochduhar care Home care home, in Dumfries, celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities including an Easter tea party, Easter cake-making and an Easter Bonnet Competition.  Residents at Lochduhar enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from an Easter Bonnet parade, egg painting to a visit from the Easter bunny.  Residents also tucked in to a delicious Easter meal prepared by the home’s head chef and her team and of course enjoyed eating chocolate Easter eggs throughout the day.

Residents at Lochduhar care home in Dumfries were treated to a virtual trip to the races to celebrate Ladies Day at Aintree.  They had so much fun that they decided to do it all again for the Grand National the next day!

Staff at the care home pulled out all the stops to give the residents an afternoon to remember.  They rolled out the red carpet, chilled the drinks and served delicious canapes so that residents felt like royalty.  Everyone dressed up for Ladies Day, all the residents picked a horse for the Grand National and the whole home joined in with the celebrations.  Our chef made some refreshing and very tasteful mock tails, which the residents thoroughly enjoyed.

Sally Gilder, Head of Activities at Lochduhar said: “Our residents are absolute stars so they deserve to be treated as such.  We had such a fantastic time getting dressed up and watching all the races together on Ladies Day – it was such a brilliant day we decided to do it all again the next day too!”

We made the most of the nice weather at the start of the week by taking a bus trip to Thornhill with some of our residents. There was a unanimous decision to stop for ice cream on the way home, which everyone seemed to enjoy!