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08/11/2025

✨ A Wonderful Journey Through Time with the Edinburgh Book Festival! ✨📚

We’ve had such a fantastic time over the past few weeks as the Edinburgh Book Festival team joined us for a series of reading sessions here at our home.

This week explored the theme of Historical Fashion, taking us on a delightful trip through the styles and stories of the past — from elegant Victorian dresses to the swinging sixties!

Our residents have absolutely loved each and every session, enjoying the readings, discussions, and the chance to share their own memories of fashion through the years.

Now that their visits have come to a close, we want to say a huge thank you to the Edinburgh Book Festival team for bringing so much joy, inspiration, and connection to our residents. Your time with us has been truly special! 💖

06/11/2025

🕸️ Spooktacular Halloween Fun! 👻

We had a fang-tastic time celebrating Halloween at our home this week! Our residents enjoyed an afternoon full of laughter, music, and plenty of spooky treats.

One of the highlights of the day was a visit from the local children for some trick-or-treating. Our residents loved handing out sweeties and admiring all the amazing costumes.

The room was full of giggles when one little visitor arrived dressed in a blow-up alien costume, making it look like she was being abducted! It had everyone in stitches! 👽

A huge thank you to our wonderful residents, staff, and all the families who joined in the fun — your smiles and creativity made this Halloween one to remember!

31/10/2025

🎃✨ Halloween Potion Making Fun! ✨🎃

This week our residents turned into magical potion masters for a spooky Halloween activity! 🧙🧪

With bubbling cauldrons, fizzy elixirs, and a sprinkle of laughter, we mixed up all sorts of mysterious brews — from “Love Potions” to “Elixirs of Eternal Youth”!

The magic was in full flow as everyone enjoyed creating their own colourful concoctions and watching them fizz and bubble away.

It was a wonderful sensory experience and a fantastic way to celebrate the spooky season together! 👻🍂

30/10/2025

📚🌊 Bringing the Beach to Our Residents! 🐚☀️

We’ve been lucky to have the Edinburgh Book Festival team visiting us each week for some wonderful storytelling and sensory sessions — and this week’s theme took us straight to the seaside!

Residents enjoyed exploring sand, shells, sea glass, and smooth stones while listening to beautiful poetry about the beach and learning fascinating stories about Edinburgh’s own coastline. 🏖️📖

It was a lovely, relaxing session that sparked wonderful memories of seaside days and brought a touch of sunshine to our home! 🌞💙

A big thank you to the Edinburgh Book Festival team for their time, creativity, and warmth — our residents are already looking forward to next week’s session!

24/10/2025

🐶✨ Ziggy Brings the Stardust Sparkle! ✨🐶

Meet Ziggy the therapy dog – named after none other than Ziggy Stardust himself! 💫🎸 With her superstar name and even more superstar cuddles, she brought smiles, tail wags, and lots of love to our home.

Her lovely owner Lynne shared all about Ziggy’s adventures while residents got the chance to pet, cuddle, and chat with our four-legged friend!

There were giggles, wagging tails, and plenty of heart-warming moments 💖

Thank you Ziggy & Lynne for lighting up our day!

23/10/2025

🌎🎉 Culture Day at Forthland Lodge! 🎶💃

What an unforgettable day we had as our amazing team came together to celebrate Culture Day – a joyful celebration of the stories, songs, dances, and delicious dishes that make us who we are!

Staff proudly shared traditions from their home countries, filling our home with vibrant music, colourful clothing, laughter, and mouth-watering food from all around the world 🌸🍲

From dancing in the lounge to tasting new flavours and hearing beautiful personal stories — the day was a wonderful reminder of the power of community, connection, and culture!

Thank you to our brilliant team for making the day so special — and to our residents for joining in with open hearts and curious minds ✨

22/10/2025

🌿✨ Memories of Edinburgh Come Alive at Forthland Lodge! ✨🌿

We were delighted to welcome the Edinburgh Book Festival back for their second visit, bringing storytelling, reminiscence, poetry writing, and sensory materials like leaves and twigs to our residents.

Our first group created this beautiful poem, “Streets We Know,” capturing vivid memories of Edinburgh’s streets, gardens, and markets — a heartfelt stroll down memory lane:

The leaves fall from strong trees
Princes Street Gardens are beautiful
Up, up above is the castle
Clouds are light and dark
Clear skies and cold days

I like listening to the music of the pipe bands
Concerts and dancing in the garden
The china shop in Bread Street, Mathers, Stockbridge Primary
All the boys beautifully dressed

I remember the market with my mother
Everything you could ever dream of
Clothes, shoes, I was always buying too many clothes
People watching in the streets and shops
Do you come here often?

I carried the money, Martha spent it!
My Jacket half-chewed from the smiddy,
but I bought the things I needed.
Edinburgh was very, very good.

We are so grateful for these moments of connection, creativity, and shared history. Stay tuned for more from our next group!

21/10/2025

🍁✨ Sensing Autumn with the Edinburgh Book Festival at Forthland Lodge! ✨🍁

With leaves, twigs, and other sensory materials in hand, the Edinburgh Book Festival team inspired our residents to explore the sights and sounds of the season through storytelling and poetry.

This group crafted a heartfelt poem, “Autumn in Edinburgh,” capturing the crisp beauty of the season and the special charm of the city in autumn:

Crisp leaves: green, red,
fiery, yellows and browns
It feels cold, Get on the coats,
hats and scarves
Warm boots and gloves.

We are going on a walk
snow on the tips of the hills,
sun shining on the castle.

The Scots Monument standing out
Edinburgh suits the Autumn.
Princess street is packed
the trees are at their strongest
as the leaves carpet the ground.

We’re so grateful to share these special moments with our residents and to see their stories come to life through poetry. Stay tuned for more updates from Forthland Lodge!

20/10/2025

🎂🎈 Happy Birthday to our lovely resident Veronica! 🎈🎂

Today we celebrated the wonderful Veronica as she turned another fabulous year young! Surrounded by friends, warm wishes, and plenty of cake — it was a day full of joy, laughter, and love!

Veronica was glowing all afternoon, enjoying every moment of her special day ✨🌸

She even made a birthday wish before blowing out the candles — though she wouldn’t tell us what it was!

From all of us at Forthland Lodge —
Happy Birthday, Veronica!

You make our days brighter just by being you 💫

15/10/2025

🌟 Staff Recognition Celebration 🌟

This week at Forthland Lodge, we had the pleasure of hosting a very special event — our Staff Recognition Award Party! 🎉

We came together with our wonderful residents to celebrate the incredible dedication of our team members who have worked with us for 10 years or more. Their commitment, compassion, and care make such a difference in the lives of our residents every single day 💖

The afternoon was filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of delicious treats as we enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea party together. It was a heart-warming reminder of the strong community we have here — both staff and residents alike.

A huge thank you and congratulations to our long-standing staff — you truly are the heart of our home! 🏡👏

12/10/2025

📚✨ Edinburgh Book Festival Comes to Forthland! 🏰🧚

Once upon a time... in a care home not too far away... the wonderful Julie and Lucy brought the magic of the Edinburgh Book Festival right to our lounge! 💫

They read beloved Scottish fairy tales and folklore that whisked us off to enchanted forests, magical glens, and the occasional mischievous selkie.

Week one of five and already we’re hooked

More stories to come – stay tuned, bookworms! 📖❤️

Address

6 Alemoor Park
Edinburgh
EH76US

Telephone

+441315550601

Website

https://www.meallmore.co.uk/our-care-homes/forthland-lodge/

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