Activities at South Grange Care Home

Residents and staff at South Grange had a great afternoon celebrating the May Day holiday with live music from popular vocalist, Paul Sullivan. Everyone had a great time getting up to dance and sing-a-long.

Residents and families were joined by members of our local community with resident, Betty and her family making it a special moment between four generations! We were able capture the youngest and oldest members of the family sharing a loving kiss.

We always welcome and encourage families and the local community to join us for our events, It goes to show that age has no boundaries which can be seen in this photograph of a small child and a great grandmother still celebrating together and making more memories.

South Grange resident Beth and her husband David celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Beth met her husband David when he moved to her home town of Inverness for 6 months for his work. They had a lovely white wedding in the Methodist Church followed by their reception at one of the local hotels on the 3rd of April 1954. David’s family and friends travelled to the wedding by bus from Aberdeen, where David lived.

In 1967 David was promoted while working for the GPO and the happy couple moved to Dundee. They have 1 daughter, Linda who all lived happily in the family home that David still lives in. Linda went on to have 2 sons, Mark and Scott whom the couple are very proud of.  Beth says the reason their marriage has lasted 70 years is because David is such a gentlemen.

What a lovely afternoon we had being welcomed by  staff and residents at one of our sister homes, Fordmill in Montrose. The home has been recently decorated and this trip allowed our residents to have a good glimpse of the interior.

We joined in with their arts and crafts club where we helped make cards in preparation for their virtual trip to Amsterdam. These cards included us colouring in spring tulips and having a sing song to ‘Tulips of Amsterdam’.

It was really nice to meet their residents whilst we chatted and got to know each other over a cuppa and of course delicious cake. We can’t wait to see them all again soon

Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy.

Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles.

Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.

Staff and residents took a trip out to visit their local coffee shop, Bowman’s.  Residents and staff had a lovely afternoon out to visit Bowman’s Coffee House which is located on Monifieth High Street. The ladies were surprised to see that their families had even joined them there too. Everyone enjoyed a refreshing hot drink and a delicious home-made cake which everyone all agreed was delicious!

General Manager, Catherine Lappin said: “We absolutely love being able to take our residents out and about to visit local shops like Bowman’s, it makes us so happy to be able to access venues like this.  The ladies had a fantastic afternoon and thoroughly themselves.”

The secret is out, our unexpected delivery was 4 horses to compete in our Grange National.

We have named our horses number 2 Bob the Builder, 10 Pink lady, 21 The Steamies 28 Nightingale.

We are holding our very own Grand National on Friday 12th April. Our ladies and gentlemen will be dressed in their Sunday best and treated to drinks and nibbles whilst being able to have a flutter on their favourite horse.