Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

To celebrate the anniversary of ABBA winning the Eurovision song contest back in 1974, we held our own party with a sing-a-long.  Using our Oomph on Demand activity pack we held quizzes, games and looked at information about ABBA all whilst enjoying a glass of wine of two!  Our residents and Activities team enjoyed dressing up for the occasion, donning their scarves and putting on their dancing shoes!

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

The Astors time at Cliveden came to an end in the 1960 s after the estate became infamously associated with Profumo Affair, but the house and garden continue to reflect their innovations and passions.  We all had a brilliant time.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.  The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.  We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.

Residents, colleagues here at Lochduhar have shown their support to families in Ukraine affected by the countries current situation.  The home became a collection point for food, clothes, shoes, nappies, toiletries, activity books, pens and pencils, cuddly toys and much more.  We have been overwhelmed with local response and have delivered boxes and bags to Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association who are coordinating this initiative.  Thank you to everyone who has showed their support and generously donated.

Residents at Lochduhar love spending time outdoors, we recently took advantage of the early spring sunshine to go outdoors to tidy the garden and start planting our bedding plants. It was a lovely way to spend a morning.

We had a lovely time joining Angela Cobbin for a theatre-inspired virtual talk about her book ‘My Name is Not Wigs’.  ‘My Name Is Not Wigs’ is the ultimate read for fans of witty behind-the-curtains memoirs, especially those with a penchant for the bright lights of stage and screen: tears and accolades aplenty!