Activities in our home


Recipe book

Dormy Care Communities has ensured the memories of the ladies and gentlemen in our homes will live forever through the publication of a new recipe book. From the Heart of Home is the name of the book, which is a compilation of classic recipes handed down through generations and recalled by the ladie...

Live Music

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We all enjoyed listening and dancing to some live music by Tyler James. Our ladies and gentlemen really look forward to entertainers coming to the home and as you can see from the photographers, everyone gets involved, whether it’s getting up to dance, singing or just tapping their feet. ...

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A trip down memory lane

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

It’s always nice to take a trip down memory lane as part of our reminiscence sessions and this time we looked at pictures of famous female movie stars. Everyone loved talking about the films they had seen them in. A real therapeutic but fun activity. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #...

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A wonderful trip

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We had a wonderful trip courtesy of our travel partner Myley to Boscombe Pier recently. Sunshine, laughter, coffees and drawing in the sand! Pure sunshine therapy. We could have been in the Mediterranean, although if this week’s weather is anything to go by, it will be more like the Antarctic ...

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Memory lane

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

Stepping down memory lane always brings lots of stories and laughter with our ladies and gentlemen in our reminiscence sessions. Another great brain training exercise. Studies have shown that older people who reminisce have lower blood pressure and heart rates, along with a host of other benefits. ...

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Pets as Therapy

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

There are always lots of smiles and cuddles when our beautiful Pets As Therapy (PAT) dogs come. They provide lovely memories of pets our ladies and gents used to have. Animal therapy, especially dogs, like this touches people psychologically, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. ...

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Mindful relaxation

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We are some mindful relaxation with Tai Chi and then a bit more energy with indoor basketball on the Forget Me Not Floor. The basketball was a very different activity but our ladies and gentlemen really enjoyed channeling their inner Lebron James. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #galle...

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Arts and crafts

September 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We had a busy day of arts and crafts across the home. Lots of concentration and attention to detail. Superb work from our ladies and gentlemen. We have very creative minds in our home and everyone looks forward to these sessions as these are great social occasions too. #gallery-7 { margin...

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Summer fair

August 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

Well, what a wonderful Summer Fair we had! The sun shone, we had a BBQ, Louisa sang all afternoon, we had lots of games, stalls and a raffle. We were also visited by Top Hat bikers and their absolutely amazing motorbikes. Our ladies and gents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was great to see so ...

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A fantastic trip

August 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We had a fantastic trip to Upton Country Park courtesy of our travel partner Myley and our lovely driver Sarah. It was great to get out in the fresh air and be amongst nature. Excellent for our mental wellbeing and why activities like these are important to our ladies and gentlemen. #gallery-...

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The sound of music

August 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We love listening to the sound of music at Pine Martin Grange and were recently treated to lovely outdoor performance from a bagpipe player. It was a beautiful day listening to some lovely music and our ladies and gentlemen thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Music plays an important part of the act...

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Golden moments

August 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

There were lots of golden moments to enjoy at the Paris Olympics and even more golden moments when did our own version of the games at Pine Martin Grange. Activities included making doughnuts in the colours of the Olympic colours, making Olympic torches and lots of games that kept everyone moving. W...

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A wonderful trip

August 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We had our first trip out as part of a new and exciting partnership with our tour operator Myley. Our lovely driver Sarah took us in a minibus on a wonderful trip to Moreton Church, Tearooms and Gardens. We all had a fantastic time and are already looking forward to our next trip. Myley tours provid...

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Taking flight

July 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We enjoyed taking flight as part of our Flight Week activity programme. It took us to far flung places such as Japan, Canada and India. Activities included learning and listening to Japanese Haiku poetry, enjoying some Indian head massages and designing our Greek pots using a selection of materials....

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The age of air travel

June 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

With our around the world flight taking place across all of our homes this week we take a look at the history of air travel and how it has enabled us to visit destinations people could only used to dream about. It took only 12 seconds and covered a distance of just 40 yards but in North Carolina jus...

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Allied invasion

June 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

Most people who were alive at the time will remember where they were on D-Day and how they first heard the news that the Allied invasion of Europe was underway. June 6 1944 saw 160,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy. Nearly a million more would follow that summer and gradually sweep n...

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A dog’s life

June 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

It’s a dog’s life at Pine Martin Grange, but that’s a good thing as it means our dog show Scrufts was a major success, just one of many interesting and exciting activities which took place in the home during May. It was great to welcome so many amazing dogs and people into the home...

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Dementia Action Week

May 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

May is the month when the UK gets into full bloom – and it’s not just in the garden or countryside you’ll be seeing flowers emerging. The Forget Me Not appeal is an annual initiative that encourages people to wear a blue flower badge for the month of May to raise awareness and vital funds for ...

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International Nurses Day

May 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

International Nurses Day is a day to celebrate and recognise the vital role that nurses play in all forms of health and social care in the UK and further afield. The value of nurses is well recognised at Dormy Care. We have qualified nurses working in all our homes and our founder and CEO, Helen Dav...

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Easter arts and crafts

April 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | Pine Martin Links

Easter arts and crafts (including making crosses), a quiz, some music played by our talented gentlemen Grenville, a visit from the Easter bunny and a visit from Monty the Easter PAT dog made a lovely long Easte weekend for our ladies and gentlemen at Pine Martin Grange. #gallery-16 { marg...

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Pub afternoon

March 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We had a lovely pub afternoon and trivia quiz in our bar with many residents joining us for a drink, chat and some brain training. We are fortunate to have our very own bar and lounge area, so it was a perfect way to while the way the afternoon, without even needing to leave the home. There was plen...

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Cup cake making

February 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

Our ladies at Pine Martin Grange spent a very enjoyable afternoon cup caking making and the best thing about making these cakes we eating them with a nice cup of tea after. Yum Yum! It was a great activity for promoting concentration, dexterity and stimulating the senses. #gallery-17 { ma...

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Burns Night

February 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We had an amazingly successful Burns Night afternoon celebration in the village hall opposite Pine Martin Grange. There was bagpipes, traditional Scottish food (haggies, tatties and neeps) and drink, dancing and lots more, and everyone had lots of fun. #gallery-18 { margin: auto; } ...

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Pet therapy

February 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

There’s nothing like a bit of pet therapy to lighten the day and as you will see from the photographs, our ladies and gentlemen always look forward to the visit of our PAT dog Rosie. Rosie helps to bring back lovely memories of when our ladies and gents will have owned dogs, or other pets, the...

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Lyndsey is living proof

January 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

Lyndsey Tyndall is living proof that, in life, if you want something badly enough and you’re prepared to work hard, eventually you can get there. Lyndsey, 33, works at Pine Martin Grange, and with the help and support of the home’s owners, Dormy Care Communities, has just qualified as a Nurse As...

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The finer things in life

January 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

Dormy Care Communities has teamed up with the UK’s largest specialist wine retailer to ensure the ladies and gentlemen in our homes can enjoy even more of the finer things in life. The new partnership with Majestic Wine ensures that the wines on offer in our homes are on a par with many top re...

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A bit of magic

January 2024 | Pine Martin Grange | News

We have been able to bring a little bit of magic to our ladies and gentlemen at Pine Martin Grange after introducing a new interactive light projector which enables them to play stimulating games. Provided in partnership with Social-Ability and designed and manufactured in the UK, the Happiness Prog...

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National Trivia Day

January 2024 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

Today is National Trivia Day, a day when we can celebrate our knowledge and a chance to get our ‘thinking caps’ on. Playing brain games and staying mentally active can significantly help to reduce and slow down the potential negative mental effects brought on by growing older, and can potential...

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Making Christmas Decorations

December 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! We spent the afternoon decorating our paper snowflakes to display in the windows. Read more

Christmas Card Crafting

December 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories And then some Christmas card making for families. Read more

Christmas Carols

December 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had a wonderful get together last night with friends and family enjoying Christmas carols, mince pies and mulled wine!! Read more

Christmas Flower Arranging

December 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Some lovely flower arranging today. Read more

National Safeguarding Week

November 2023 | Bramshott Grange | Bramshott Grange Links

It’s National Safeguarding Week, an opportunity to highlight this hugely important subject and one we take incredibly seriously at Dormy. Across our Dormy Care Communities, safeguarding and protecting the ladies and gentlemen who live with us is our absolute priority every day of the year. Their w...

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A wide range of activities

October 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

The vibe in October was distinctly relaxed at Pine Martin Grange! The ladies and gentlemen opted to enjoy a wide range of relaxing activities including pampering sessions, flower arranging, gardening, poetry, hand massages and getting creative painting and crafting. The regular Knit and Natter sessi...

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Brain Training

October 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Brain training session with a word game and enjoying some tea and cake during our weekly knit and natter session. Read more

The Dormy Awards

October 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What a wonderful afternoon of celebration at the Dormy Awards 2023! It’s been fantastic to celebrate the hard work, dedication and passion of our colleagues across Dormy. Huge well done to all of our finalists and winners! Read more

Fun with the projector

October 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We continue to have endless fun with our interactive projector. Read more

Pine Martin Grange Raft Race

September 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

When they took part in an iconic local raft race it proved to be a real team effort for Pine Martin Grange, with everyone contributing their efforts! Colleagues from across the home decided to take part in the local Wareham Wednesday Raft Race, the culmination of a summer of community events. Peo...

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Flower Arranging

September 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we spent time making table vases for our dining rooms. Read more

An Afternoon of Puzzles

September 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Puzzles this afternoon to keep the mind active and good dexterity needed. Read more

A Game of Skittles

September 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A game of Skittles before lunch. Read more

Our Four Legged Friends

August 2023 | Bramshott Grange | Stories

Across our Dormy Care Communities, some of the most popular visitors we welcome into our homes have four legs and wagging tails. Today is National Dog Day and we wanted to say a huge thank you to our four-legged visitors who truly brighten the days of the ladies and gentlemen who live across our com...

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Dormy Cruise Week Highlights

August 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Highlights of our amazing cruise week, visiting some amazing destinations around the world! Read more

Enjoying the Garden

August 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories When the weather’s fine we do enjoy getting out into the garden and taking the chance to get up close to our beautiful flowers and plants. Read more

Morning Walks

August 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A nice morning walking in the gardens with family and friends. Read more

A Visit from Rosie

August 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Rosie the PAT dog paid us a visit today and our ladies and gents were thrilled. Perfect canine therapy. Read more

Crafting Bird Feeders

July 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This morning we made bird feeders to hang in our gardens. +3 See Insights Boost a Post Read more

Pet Therapy

July 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had lots of cuddles this morning with Rosie the Golden Retriever. Animal therapy at its finest!! See Insights Boost a Post All reactions: 1212 Read more

A bit of Gardening

July 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Maureen helping to build our beach theme balcony today. Just need the beach weather now!!! See Insights Boost a Post Read more

A visit to the RNLI

July 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Inge headed to Poole Quay for a stroll along today and watched as the RNLI completed a training exercise. It was a little too cool for ice cream so we grabbed a stick of rock instead. She had a lovely time! Read more

Garden Walks

June 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Walks in the gardens, gardening, catching up with families or relaxing by reading a book in the sun or visiting the hairdresser, just a normal day for our ladies and gentlemen at Pine Martin Grange! Read more

Quoits!

June 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies and gentlemen always look forward to a game of Quoits and it’s even better when they can do it outside in the fresh air! See Insights Boost a Post Read more

Summer Garden Club

June 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our weekly summer garden club is very popular. We put the effort in but it’s nice admiring our work after Read more

Pugsey and Gus

June 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Pugsey and Gus came to visit the home for cuddles today. Nothing like a bit of canine therapy. See Insights Boost a Post Read more

A Comment from one of our Volunteers

June 2023 | Bramshott Grange | Stories

“Why do I volunteer? Mainly because I like sharing and luckily for me I’m time – rich.  I began at Foxhunters having been trained by a charity known to Monmouthshire Libraries called The Reader. I love books, I love reading, and I especially love reading aloud.  So when I was given ...

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The Kings Coronation

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What a lovely day. congratulations King Charles III. Read more

Flower Arranging Class

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Some lovely flower arranging today Read more

Garden Club

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories In Garden Club today we had a busy time tidying the flower beds and checking our array of crops in the vegetable garden. Everything’s coming along very well indeed! Isn’t it wonderful spending time outdoors and enjoying the fresh air? Read more

Tyler James and Dancing

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Last night we enjoyed the voice of Tyler James. We danced and sang along to our favourite tunes. A great night. Read more

Making the most of the sun!

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories More time outside enjoying the warmth in our beautiful gardens and outside areas and inside it was a busy day for our hairdressers. Nothing better than getting your hair cut/styled or your beard trimmed!   Read more

Expressing ourselves through Art

May 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We enjoyed some art time on our Forget me Not floor. Lots of great concentration and making the most of colours. Read more

Afternoon games

April 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of Scrabble and Dominoes. Read more

Art Session

April 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Art time on the Forget Me Not floor. Read more

10 Pin Bowling

April 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The hotly contested 10-pin bowling tournament had a nail-biting ending with Philip winning by just one shot – on his final bowl! Read more

Garden Club

April 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Garden Club this morning was a lovely chance for a busy sweet pea planting session. Read more

Craft Session

April 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Morning craft session making cards for Easter. Read more

The importance of Nutrition and Hydration

March 2023 | Bramshott Grange | News

Good nutrition and hydration are vital to everybody’s health and well-being, but as we continue to age, this is not always as easy to maintain. It is believed that 25% of elderly people experience mild chronic dehydration and 10% are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Older people are more l...

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Activities for people who walk with purpose

March 2023 | Bramshott Grange | News

Many of the ladies and gentlemen who live in our homes will have had pets at sometime during their lives, whether that’s a cat, dog, or even a goldfish. There’s a reason we call dogs man’s best friend and why studies have shown that cats can lower stress and anxiety. Our furry friends have a p...

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The Puuurfect Companions in our Homes

March 2023 | Bramshott Grange | News

Many of the ladies and gentlemen who live in our homes will have had pets at sometime during their lives, whether that’s a cat, dog, or even a goldfish. There’s a reason we call dogs man’s best friend and why studies have shown that cats can lower stress and anxiety. Our furry friends have a p...

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St David’s Day

March 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We enjoyed celebrating St David’s Day with a Welsh quiz. Read more

An Afternoon of Music

March 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What an afternoon of music with fabulous singer Paul Spencer! Read more

World Book Day

March 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories World Book Day was a wonderful reason for Martin to read from Roald Dahl’s book Boy: Tales of Childhood. Read more

International Women’s Day

March 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We celebrated International Women’s Day with flowers, Prosecco and chocolate Read more

A Valentines Pampering

February 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today there was a very special – and well-deserved – Valentine’s pamper session and some lovely flower arranging. Read more

Enjoying the Dorset Sun

February 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Sun is shining in Dorset so we enjoyed some time outdoors Read more

Rosie the PAT dog!

February 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Regular visitor PAT dog Rosie popped in to say hello. Read more

Spring Sunshine

February 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We made the most of the sunshine today by enjoying a few late winter rays, before coming inside for some arts and crafts. Read more

Dancing feet!

February 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Curly the Busker came to perform and the music certainly got people dancing! Read more

Quoits!

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Lots of laughter with a fun game of quoits Read more

Chinese New Year Art

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Celebrating #chinesenewyear with a quiz and art session Read more

Puzzling

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working together on our puzzles Read more

A Garden Walk in the Fresh Air

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Wrapping up warm for some January fresh air as we enjoyed a walk around the grounds Read more

Game of Quoits

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Some healthy competition with a fun game of quoits Read more

Darts in the Bar

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Darts in the bar! Great fun on this rainy Thursday Read more

New Year New Knitting Challenge

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories New year new challenge. Following our recent activities meeting some of the ladies were keen to start up a knit and natter group. Our first session saw us all choosing different items to make – watch this space to see the finished results! Read more

Practicing Piano

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Shirley practicing her piano skills ready for when she plays for everyone Read more

A visit from some creatures!

January 2023 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories One of our care team members Adam, popped in today with his collection of creatures! Read more

Some Christmas Carols

December 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Thank you to Sandford St. Martin’s Primary School who sang to us today! We loved listening to our favourite carols! Read more

Christmas Singer

December 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Last night we had a Christmas party with the fabulous singer Tyler James Read more

Christmas Party

December 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Buck’s Fizz, delicious home made mince pies and a special visitor today!! Everyone was asked what they would like for Christmas and the main wish was for health! Happy Christmas everyone! Read more

Mini Golf

December 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A game of mini golf followed by doughnuts and mulled wine! Read more

Christmas Card Designs

December 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our Christmas card designs Read more

Flower Arranging

November 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our table decorations Read more

Singing and Dancing Entertainment

November 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Singing and dancing thanks to entertainment from Paul Spencer Read more

A Visit from Molly

November 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our furry friend Molly came in for cuddles Read more

Scrabble Challenge

November 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This weekend our ladies and gentlemen took part in a Scrabble challenge! Lots of games, lots of great words and some excellent scores! Read more

Art Class

November 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This morning we had an art session with the theme of remembrance, there has been some beautiful work created incorporating poppies. Read more

Autumnal Art Session

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our budding artists are creating their next masterpieces this afternoon based on an autumnal theme   Read more

Indoor Putting

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Indoor putting time! Read more

A Morning of Scrabble

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Morning scrabble challenge today! Read more

A Morning Art Session

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Todays art session was inspired by the trees in our garden! Read more

A Visit from Louis

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Cuddles with Louis today Read more

Trick or Treat!

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Trick or treat? Ruby and Autumn came to visit us and received some lovely treats Read more

Some Spooky Arts and Crafts

October 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Some spooky goings on in the home today! Dorothy was exceptionally pleased with her linking carving skills Read more

Summer Holiday Garden Games

September 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Holiday fun and games in the garden! Read more

Flower Arranging

September 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Weekly flower arranging session. It’s lovely that we all get involved to create the table pieces Read more

Afternoon Arts and Crafts

September 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Afternoon art time session using coloured sands and paint for our seaside themed week Read more

Sandcastle Building

September 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Oh we do like to be beside the seaside! Read more

Winners of Best Vegetable Garden 2022

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of art inspired by our vegetable garden! We were thrilled to win “best vegetable garden” in the recent Dormy Gardening competition Read more

Sue and her HUGE sunflower!

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Keen gardener Sue wins the sunflower competition this year! Read more

Visiting our Personal Trainer

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Since Janet joined our home she has started having regular gym sessions with our visiting personal training. She is really enjoying these visits and seeing some great results. Our home has a gym designed for the older person and these sessions are available to anyone living in our home! Read more

Courtyard Golf

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Taking advantage of the nice weather today. Enjoying a game of courtyard golf before lunch Read more

Skittles in the Sun

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying the shade on our courtyard with a fun game of Skittles Read more

Floral Therapy!

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A little bit of floral therapy! Flower arranging to relaxing music Read more

A Garden Tournament

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Sunday sunshine and time for a garden tournament Read more

A Garden Quiz

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying some Friday fun with a quiz in the courtyard Read more

Abstract Art Project

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Abstract art is the focus of our latest project Read more

Skittles in the Sunshine

August 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of skittles in the sunshine Read more

Creative Arts Session

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. This gave us our inspiration for todays art session Read more

Discovering our Ancestry

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This morning we enjoyed an ancestry session, we are busy tracing our family trees which is really interesting Read more

A Morning Workout

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Bouncing into Saturday with an outdoor morning workout Read more

A Trip to the Seaside

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Oh we do like to be beside the seaside! We are so lucky to live so close to the beach, so we made the most of this glorious weather and headed for an ice cream by the sea! Read more

Putting Practice

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Practising our golf before lunch Read more

Parachute Fun in the Sun

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our upper body strength today with some parachute fun in the sun! Read more

Picking Our Own Flower Arranging

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Pick your own! We are very lucky to have so many beautiful flowers in our garden so today we picked a selection and arranged them in vases for around the home. #flowerarrangement #carehomesuk #activities #flowers Read more

Growing Our Own Veg!

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

Nothing nicer than #growyourown fruit and vegetables and we have been working lots on our garden lately. Today we picked a crop of lettuce for the kitchen to use. Some of the ladies and gentlemen also assisted with the weeding and tending to our flower beds. You can still enjoy the things you l...

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Courtyard Archery

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Training for the next Olympics with our skills today! Competitive archery in the courtyard Read more

A Visit From an MP

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We welcomed Michael Tomlinson MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole to our home today as part of #carehomeopenweek He enjoyed meeting the ladies and gentlemen and answering lots of questions. He also took the time to thank all the team for their hard work. #communityengagement #thankyou Read more

Quoits in the Sun

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Garden quoits this afternoon Read more

Art Class: Monet

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our #monetstyle art pieces today Read more

Vintage Cars!

July 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Ann enjoyed a lovely visit today from her friends and their vintage car! #vintagecars Read more

Pétanque in the Sun

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying a game of pétanque in the garden this afternoon. What a glorious day! Read more

An Afternoon Art Session

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Dorothy enjoyed the art session this afternoon Read more

Garden Games

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Glorious weather today and we enjoyed a game of quoits in the garden Read more

A Day of Gardening

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working in our garden this morning ready for more planting Read more

Bowls in the Sun

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Afternoon of bowls in the sunshine Read more

Jubilee Flower Arranging

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Flower arranging for our table decorations Read more

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Fabulous afternoon celebrating the #queensjubilee2022 Our chefs received a round of applause for their amazing trifles as well! Perfect day! #queensjubilee2022 Read more

Queens Green Canopy

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories How lovely to have The Woodland Trust tree for the #queensgreencanopy blessed. Our commemorative tree for the #queensjubilee2022 is planted #platinumjubileecelebration #hermajestythequeen Read more

Jubilee Time Capsule

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Fabulous day celebrating the #platinumjubilee2022 with music and bubbles. We also planted our commemorative tree from The Woodland Trust and our time capsule #greencanopy Read more

Trooping the Colour

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Decorating our #platinumjubilee2022 crowns whilst watching #troopingthecolour Read more

Play Your Cards Right

June 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Play your cards right Read more

Flower Decorations

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on table decorations Read more

Courtyard Boules

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Courtyard boules this afternoon Read more

Jubilee Art

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The jubilee is approaching Today’s art class we started work on designing our own stamp! Read more

A Day of Gardening

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Every year Dormy Care runs a gardening competition. We took the opportunity to work on our garden today as the sun was shining! Read more

A Visit from Rosie

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Rosie the pet therapy dog came for a visit today! Really brightened our day Read more

An Afternoon’s Pamper

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Time for hand massages and a bit of pampering Read more

A Trip to the River

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Arline and Sheila enjoyed a trip out for coffee and cake by the river this morning. This was was their prize for winning the last quiz Read more

Word Games in the Sun

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Sun is shining in Wareham so we enjoyed word games out in the garden so we could enjoy the warm spring afternoon Read more

Flower Arranging

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Beautiful flower arranging session they look lovely around our home Read more

A Little Party

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoyable afternoon as we welcomed a musical entertainer. Lots of singing, dancing and laughter – just the way we like it! Who needs an excuse to have a little party – we don’t! Read more

Indoor Golf!

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of indoor golf Read more

Catching Exercise

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We always enjoy a daily exercise session and today we enjoyed a seated netball session. Great way to keep on moving and help with our strength building Read more

Arts and Crafts: Stencilling

May 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This afternoons creative art session involved stencilling on to tiles and creating our own special designs.   Read more

Our Easter Weekend

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had a brilliant Easter weekend, we enjoyed the sunshine with an Easter egg hunt around our gardens and everyone was wearing their Easter bonnets we had created earlier in the week! Read more

Getting Ready for Spring

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This afternoon we spent some time in our garden greenhouse taking the seeds from our dried flowers ready to plant for spring! We have lots of green-fingered ladies and gentlemen who love to make use of our gardens. Read more

Making Easter Bunnies

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had a great arts and crafts session yesterday where we made Easter decorations, we think they look amazing! Read more

Easter Arts and Crafts

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Beginning our Easter project with homemade cards Read more

Flower Arranging

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A wonderful flower arranging group this morning. We also used the opportunity to focus on the sensory benefits of the plants Read more

Sunflower Planting

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We have planted our sunflower seeds. Time to see who grows the tallest one! Read more

Some Arts and Crafts

April 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our next project creating a stain glass window Read more

A sssssssslithery visitor!

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories When one of the team members offers to bring in his pet…. Adam works as a carer in our home and offered to pop by on his day off with his pet. Who would have thought the ladies and gentlemen would enjoy this visit! Read more

A visit from Rosie

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Rosie and her owner came to visit today! Lots of cuddles with this gorgeous furry friend Read more

Creating Bird Feeders

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Creating bird feeders for the garden now spring is here Read more

Flower arranging in the sun

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying the spring sunshine. This morning we took our activity outside and created flower arrangements for around the home Read more

Support for Ukraine

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Demonstrating our support for Ukraine Read more

A bit of indoor golf

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A morning of golf here in Dorset Read more

A Little Visitor

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we had a visit from Kelloggs the miniature horse from Linking Hearts Therapy Horses Our ladies and gentlemen loved the experience Read more

Cruise Week

March 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had a fantastic cruise week with many amazing destinations! Read more

Parachute Exercise

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Exercise session with parachutes today. Great fun Read more

Carpet Bowls

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A competitive game of carpet bowls! Read more

A Suprise Baby Shower!

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Throwing a surprise baby shower for one of our team members. Pin the dummy on the baby was great fun Read more

A Morning Art Session

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We are excited about spring and incorporated this into our art session this morning Read more

A Colourful Workout

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Starting the day with an Oomph Wellness workout Read more

Spring Art Session!

February 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our art session today was focused on spring. We created cards to send to loved ones Read more

Enjoying our gardens

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Exploring the outdoors today! Lovely to be outside in the fresh air Read more

Celebrating Robert Burns

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Celebrating Robert Burns with a special poetry session Read more

Competitive Chess

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Bit of healthy competition this afternoon as we set up the chess and drafts boards Read more

Parachute fun!

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This had us laughing lots! Trying to hold a ball in the middle of the parachute for more than five seconds! Read more

An Art Session

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Another creative art session today. We tried our hand at Japanese style painting using a stencil technique Read more

Resistance Band Classes

January 2022 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Keeping active with one of our resistance band classes. Read more

A Christmas Art Session

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The carols are playing and we are enjoying a festive art session. Read more

Festive Poetry

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We enjoyed a thoroughly festive poetry session. Phillip composed his own poem that he shared whilst others read out their favourites to the group! Read more

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Father Christmas visited us today and left gifts for those of us who had been nice Read more

Pet Therapy

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Pet therapy is extremely beneficial and we were thrilled to welcome Rosie in to our home today. This was Rosie’s first “job” as a therapy dog and she interacted beautifully with our ladies and gentlemen and was very well received. Read more

Christmas Baking

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The smell of baking filled the home this afternoon as we made festive bites! Off to enjoy them with a cup of tea now we have all cleaned up! Read more

A Day of Hobbies

December 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We encourage the ladies and gentlemen living in our home to maintain their independence and it’s important to enjoy a variety of hobbies and skills. Phillip and Arline are working on their own projects today for upcoming birthdays and Christmas. Read more

Party time!

November 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Party time here with entertainment from our favourite singer Paul Spencer. Lots of singing and dancing this afternoon! Read more

A relaxing pamper!

November 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories How relaxing: Sue had a pamper from our team leader Tegan today, she now has wonderful nails! Thank you Tegan. Read more

A beautiful suprise!

November 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What a moving surprise yesterday for Annette as she is reunited with her daughter after two years! Her daughter has been living in America and has been unable to come to the UK. It’s lovely to see families re-united! Read more

Remembrance Day at Pine Martin Grange

November 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had our Remembrance Day service today with a lot of our ladies and gentlemen in attendance. We had prayers and the ‘Last Post’ played on the Clarinet we also observed the 2 minutes silence at 11am. Read more

Halloween at Pine Martin Grange

November 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

This weekend to kick off our Halloween celebrations we had a pumpkin carving session! Our ladies and gentlemen made some very spooky designs and loved reminiscing about doing this as a child and with their children! We had some special visitors today at Pine Martin Grange. It was lovely to have some...

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Dancing the afternoon away!

October 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Everyone had their dancing shoes on for some entertainment this afternoon! We were treated to songs throughout the decades and the rhythm certainly caught our ladies and gentlemen who boogied away the afternoon! Read more

Autumnal Crafts

October 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We all participated in an arts and crafts session this week, our clay sculptures were now dry so we had the chance to paint them. A few stuck to autumnal colours and others decided to make them as bright and as colourful as possible! Beautiful!   Read more

A little bit of art therapy

October 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we all gathered for some art therapy. We used paint and string to make some beautiful pieces! Creating art is very relaxing and a great way to focus your mind.   Read more

There’s a party going on!

October 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Its a party atmosphere this afternoon here in Pine Martin Grange, we have music from Dean Martin and lots of singing and dancing! Read more

A day of dancing and a week of games!

October 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We have been blessed by the late September weather and had a wonderful party in the garden. No special reason, just because we love to dance! We had a great game of dominoes with some of our ladies. Very competitive Our ladies deep in conversation today in our weekly knitter knitter group! It’s a...

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Art, Poetry and Petanque!

September 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

A game of Petanque before dinner and enjoying a little September sun. The winning team today we’re the yellow team five games to four! Poetry in the cafe with the delights of Pam Ayers, T.S. Elliott and Blake were recited and discussed. Taking some inspiration from a beautiful September day fo...

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Crafts and Choir!

September 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We had such an uplifting session with our team members and ladies and gentlemen at our first choir practice for a long time! It’s great to hear everyone singing again, it sounded wonderful. We like to encourage outdoor activity at Pine Martin Grange. One of our gentlemen Philip is a home champ...

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Pétanque!

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It was a team effort this afternoon in the garden playing a game of pétanque Read more

Oomph Basket Ball

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s court game week for Oomph Wellness Olympics and we enjoyed basket ball today Read more

An afternoon of games

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An enjoyable game of dominoes Read more

Picking our home grown veg!

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We are thrilled with our home grown carrots that we picked this morning!! Dormy Care Read more

Summer painting

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Painting summer themes for the afternoon Read more

Boules, pétanque!

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

Yesterday we enjoyed a game of the french version of boules, pétanque. In pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than the opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules closer to the small target ball, or by hi...

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An afternoon of puzzles and games

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Relaxing with games and puzzles Read more

The start of the Oomph Olympics

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s the start of the Oomph Wellness Olympics! Synchronised swimming movements Read more

Enjoying some Cliff Richard

August 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Ending our fabulous holiday week with some singing and dancing to Cliff Richard classics Read more

Fish and Chips

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying our fish and chips for lunch whilst on our Dormy Care holiday week Read more

Postcards for friends

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Judy is busy designing postcards to send to friends, sharing stories from her holiday week Read more

Pine Martin Grange’s Summer Holiday Day Two!

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Fun in the sun on our Dormy Care summer holiday! Read more

Pine Martin Grange’s Summer Holiday Day One!

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s the start of our Dormy Summer holiday week! Ladies and gentlemen here in Wareham are already having fun in the sun!! #summerholidays #dormyvacation #dormysummertime   Read more

Getting creative

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our next art project Read more

Maintaining our hanging baskets

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Pruning our hanging baskets Read more

Animal bingo!

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Animal bingo always goes down well on a Friday afternoon Read more

Taking on a few riddles

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying riddles in the lounge – we like a challenge! Read more

A flower art session

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Bringing the garden indoors with today’s art session involving flowers Read more

Preparing our garden for summer

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Working on our garden this morning preparing our new flower beds Read more

Learning Dye Cutting

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today’s creation using dye cut materials Read more

Pom Pom Spiders

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We are busy making pom pom spiders for our local mother and toddler groups #supportlocal Read more

Feel good Friday for Glad to Care Week!

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s #feelgoodfriday as part of #gladtocare week! All our homes have a gym with a focus on keeping active and promoting wellbeing. @AutumnaCare @PersonCentredSW Glad to Care Read more

A creative art session

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Tea and cake got our creativity flowing, enjoyable art session with lots of conversation and laughter Read more

Darts practice

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Ray is busy practicing his dart skills ready for his upcoming tournament Read more

Poetry session

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Hazel and Marjorie joined in with our rhyming stories and poetry session. Read more

Carpet bowls

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of competitive carpet bowls! Great fun! Read more

Pine Martin Grange Garden Party

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What an amazing day we have had! We enjoyed a very special garden party with an Abba tribute band and a fabulous bbq! The sun shone and everyone had such fun! Read more

A sunny morning

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying coffee in the courtyard sunshine Read more

A pampering session

July 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This morning we had a pampering session with face masks, hand massages and nail painting… bliss! Read more

A morning in the garden

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Coffee morning in the garden soaking up the sunshine Read more

Holy communion

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Holy communion in the sunshine this afternoon. Read more

Shaking our Pom Poms!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Shaking our Pom Poms with an over fun session from Oomph Wellness Read more

A celebration of Picasso

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Celebrating the anniversary of Picasso’s first exhibition Read more

Pine Martin Grange Gym

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Did you know our home has a gym with a personal trainer? We encourage our ladies and gentlemen to keep active and Edna is just one of our ladies who enjoys her training sessions #useitorloseit #keeponmoving #personaltrainer Read more

Making beautiful table decorations

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We picked fresh flowers from our garden and created beautiful table decorations today Read more

Cake decorating lesson

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying a cake decorating lesson, followed by tasting of course! Read more

Letters from Hanford School Dorset

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Thank you to Hanford School Dorset for our lovely letters. We will be writing back to our new pen pals Read more

Animal Bingo!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Animal bingo fun after we watched the trooping of the colour Read more

Puzzle time in the sunshine

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The sun is shining in Dorset and we are enjoying some puzzle time on the balcony Read more

Wandering our wild garden!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Janet enjoyed some time in our wild garden today admiring the flowers Read more

A visit from an Ice Cream Van!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories As a special treat for #nationalcarersweek we had a visit from the ice cream van! Delicious!     Read more

A bit of pampering! Slightly scary face masks!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Pampering for ladies and gents! Trying out some new face masks this afternoon! Everyone loved doing this and said it was very relaxing! Read more

Thank you to our carers!

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories More delicious treats for our carers as a thank you for all they do #nationalcarersweek Read more

Summer gardening

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Judy took full advantage of the sunshine and was out sorting the garden yesterday, something which she absolutely loves and takes pride in doing. Read more

Sharing photos

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Judy and Hazel sharing their photos albums Read more

Furniture painting

June 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Tony helped out with painting the furniture on our balconies Read more

A sunny afternoon in the garden

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Enjoying some sunshine after a week of travelling around the USA Read more

The Great Dormy Coach Trip: Texas

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Heading to Texas to work on the ranch A Texan feast today! Pulled pork subs, sweet potato fries and southern fried chicken for lunch Read more

The Great Dormy Coach Trip: Mexico

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What a fabulous day! Mexican food, cocktails and fun! Read more

A spot on painting

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Painting our planters on the balcony Read more

Brain training

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Testing our word skills for a bit of brain training! Read more

World Bee Day

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories As today is World Bee day we have been busy making bug hotels and hung some in the garden for the Read more

A busy garden day

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Busy working in our garden today Read more

Planting some carrots

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Busy planting carrots in the sunshine on our balcony Read more

A little painting

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Jeans favourite pastime, painting in the activity room Read more

A rainy day with a good book.

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Too wet to venture outside for gardening club today, instead Alma paid a visit to our home library and took inspiration from our selection of gardening books Read more

Meet our new cat!

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Janet is looking after Bobby this morning, our new robotic cat Read more

There’s nothing like a McDonalds burger!

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

Judy and Joyce had a big request this week and we are thrilled to make their wish come true! The ladies wanted to try a McDonald’s takeaway and so we headed off in our bus to get their treats! They were made up and so happy venturing out and sampling this!! Activities lead Louise was ...

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We have a winner!

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Jean is the winner of how many sweets in the jar! She is very happy with her prize Read more

Cocktails and crafts

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Cocktails and cake during a quiz following a crafting session as we learnt to weave. Read more

New hanging baskets

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies and gentlemen started working on our hanging baskets Read more

Keeping loved ones connected

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Keeping our ladies and gentlemen connected with their loved ones is very important. Marjorie enjoyed a zoom call with her son where she read various poetry pieces. #KeepingConnected #zoommeeting #CareHomeLife Read more

A spot of gardening

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Judy gave our activities team a gardening lesson whilst Phillip looked on with amusement! Great to see her still enjoying her favourite past time! #gardeninglife #gardeningtips #activities Read more

An afternoon of darts

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies and gentlemen had great fun with their new darts board and were very competitive!!! #funincare #activityincare #NursingHomes Read more

The purrfect companion!!

May 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

The purrfect companion!! Social distancing has heightened the impact of social isolation and loneliness on our aging loved ones, leaving many looking for solutions to provide comfort, companionship, and joy in their physical absence. Welcome to Bobby, our new robotic cat who lives at Pine M...

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Letters from the Guides

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Thank you to the Wool and Lulworth Guides run by Sophie Walker for the fantastic cards and letters sent to our ladies and gentlemen. We have enjoyed reading them all and will be sending our messages back soon! Read more

Warming up for Wimbledon

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Ray is warming up for Wimbledon Read more

A large game of cards!

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies said they felt like the “Borrowers family” when they had a game with these giant cards! Read more

World Earth Day at Pine Martin Grange

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories What better thing to focus on during world earth day than our garden! Judy worked so hard this morning as we planted vegetables and Sunflowers. Read more

Alma’s getting creative!

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Alma has been getting creative today .. we love encouraging our ladies and gentlemen to learn new skills and develop past hobbies Read more

A morning in the sunshine

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories The sun is shining so we are out on the balcony painting our planters Read more

A day in the Wareham sun

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s a beautiful day here in Wareham and we are loving the sunshine! Making the most of it in the garden Read more

Crazy Golf!

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Time for crazy golf! Read more

Margaret loves to sketch

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Margaret enjoys time to sketch in our arts room Read more

A beautiful day!

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Beautiful day so we enjoyed some time in our garden Read more

Enjoing a puzzle

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Puzzle time! Read more

A Sunday of memories

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Sunday papers and coffee whilst reminiscing Read more

An Easter service at Pine Martin Grange

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Thank you Lianne for our uplifting Easter service this morning Read more

Motorbike memories

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories One of our team members rode in on this today. Judy was thrilled, as she remembered all the adventures she had shared in the past with her husband on their motorbike. Read more

Easter bonnet making

April 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A fabulous good Friday Easter bonnet parade having decorated our own hats Read more

A spot of gardening in the sun

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies enjoying the sunshine whilst we plant roses in our new flower beds – under their watchful eyes! We then enjoyed a cup of tea and a natter together Read more

Learning how to felt

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A taster session of felting Read more

Painting to music

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Music on and we are getting creative. We enjoy painting whilst singing along to our favourite tunes – our project will soon be revealed! Read more

Pine Martin Grange Day of Reflection

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we made a reflection scrap book to remember our time during the last year #DayOfReflection Read more

Getting the gardens ready for Spring

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We always enjoy a challenge and love getting creative! Today we focussed on a wild area of our garden that needed some additional love! This little corner is going to become a special place where our ladies and gentlemen can plant their choice of plants and seeds. We even managed to use a...

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Postcards from the Guides

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Thank you Wool and Lulworth guides for our beautiful postcards. It’s lovely that we can be pen pals with you all. Read more

Card Making

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Card making today, with one of our team leaders, Tatiana. Read more

An afternoon of game

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Puzzle time on a rainy Friday and learning UNO Read more

Spring art project

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Starting on our spring art project Read more

Knit-a-thon

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we began our Knit-a-thon in aid of arthritis. Brenda has made lots of chicks which we filled with chocolate eggs and will sell to raise money for charity Read more

Spring is almost here

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories A busy day out in the fresh air spent planting and creating a fairy garden with our freshly painted tyres Read more

Our Flower Wall

March 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We continue to develop our beautiful wall art with flowers. Our ladies have been busy creating more to add on Read more

Quiz and Fizz

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Weekend starts with quiz and fizz! Read more

Dominoes

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of dominoes for our ladies Read more

Puzzles with Friends

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Friendship, puzzles and a cup of tea, good times together Read more

Getting Creative!

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Getting creative! We have been painting old tyres to create a special garden area Read more

Spinning Alpaca Wool

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today one of our team leaders gave a demonstration on spinning alpaca wool. Read more

Zoom Calls With Family

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We encourage our ladies and gentlemen to keep in touch with loved ones by using zoom. Margaret enjoyed being able to chat to her son and daughter about what she’s been up to! Read more

Bread Baking

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today we baked our own bread! Read more

Send a Card to a Friend Day

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Tomorrow is “national send a friend a card day” so we have have been busy making our own messages to send to those we are thinking of. Read more

Feeding The Birds

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories National feed the birds day! So we cleaned out our bird feeders and added some fresh seeds and nuts. We then tidied our flower beds and enjoyed some fresh air in the garden! Read more

Birthday Celebrations!

February 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Another birthday celebration! Judy is enjoying her day with her Pine Martin family. Read more

National Puzzle Day

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Today is National Puzzle day so we had puzzles and a sing a long! Read more

Getting Creative with Paint!

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Experimenting with paint in a cup Read more

Oomph Wellness Session

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Putting some Oomph Wellness into our day with some seated exercises Read more

Cheese and Wine Afternoon

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We enjoyed recognising national cheese lovers day! Cheese, wine and some facts around this delicious food made it an enjoyable afternoon! Read more

Its National Cake Baking Day

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories It’s national chocolate cake baking day! So we are baking all things chocolate! Delicious! Read more

Origami Trees

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Jean and Ray are busy making origami trees Read more

Carpet Boules!

January 2021 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories An afternoon of competitive carpet boules! Read more

A visit from Santa!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We had a lovely surprise visit on Christmas Day and our ladies and gentlemen enjoyed opening their gifts from their friends and family. Read more

Mulled Wine, Carols and Christmas!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Mulled wine, mince pies and Christmas carols and a Christmas Queen’s speech! Read more

Chocolate Chip Cookies

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Baking chocolate chip cookies Read more

A Creative Art Class!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our ladies and gentlemen have been taking part in art classes during December, we use a range of mediums and techniques to get some brilliant results! Read more

Dominoes in the afternoon

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories On this cold December day what better than a cosy afternoon indoors playing dominoes Read more

Festive flowers!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories We enjoyed creating table decorations for around the home today, these lovely flower arrangements will go onto the tables in the dining rooms Read more

Winter Village!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Our talented Chefs made this beautiful gingerbread village! Our ladies and gentlemen decorated gingerbread people and reindeer to add to the scene. Read more

Christmas Cones

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories After collecting cones from the garden we made these lovely Christmas trees, we love getting creative and adapting things we can find. Read more

Mulled Wine and Pastries

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Mulled wine and pastries.. what better way to spend a chilly afternoon! Read more

Its time for Boules!

December 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories This is Leslie playing carpet boules. He had a tough time trying to beat the ladies. Read more

Keeping in touch..

November 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories Communication is so important and we encourage our ladies and gentlemen to connect with loved ones on regular Zoom calls. They enjoy sharing stories and seeing those they love who aren’t always able to visit. Read more

Pine Martin Grange – Best Hanging Basket

August 2020 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

This summer we had a Dormy Care gardening competition across all 4 of our locations! Pretty flowering baskets adorned the home and gardens which surround our home in Wareham. The green fingered team enjoyed adding some colour to the home and they thrived during the warmer days. We think they look ab...

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We’re getting into the Christmas spirit at Pine Martin Grange!

December 2019 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

We’ve had lots going on this December in the run-up to Christmas! From activities in the home to events in the local community, we’ve certainly been getting into the swing of things this festive season. From Christmas concerts, to decorating the home, there’s never a dull day at Pine Martin Gr...

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Ladies at Pine Martin Grange make people smile with their singing

September 2019 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

This Tuesday, some of the lovely ladies at Pine Martin Grange spent the afternoon singing, with a beautiful rendition of the popular Louis Armstrong song, ‘When you’re smiling’. Staff and residents were full of praise, commenting that the song certainly made them smile! Singing and dancing is ...

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A day of fun at care home open day

June 2019 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

C are Home Open Day is in full swing at Pine Martin Grange, with activities, cake, singing and dancing already taking place, with more to come this afternoon! So far, our ladies and gentlemen have made the most of the glorious sunshine, taking part in outdoor art classes in the beautiful landscaped ...

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Birthday celebrations in the sunshine

June 2019 | Pine Martin Grange | Stories

T his week, a few of our ladies and gentlemen took advantage of the sunshine and got involved with our Gardening Club as well as celebrating one lady’s birthday with delicious tea and cake in the beautiful landscaped gardens of Pine Martin Grange. Staff and residents alike thoroughly enjoyed the a...

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Pine Martin Grange helps resident set sail for the first time in 6 years

August 2018 | Pine Martin Grange | News

After a life on the sea, Pine Martin Grange resident John Newbury has been unable to set sail for the past six years. Living with Parkinson’s Disease means that John – a retired Captain and Master Mariner – has been unable to pursue his passion for sailing. Pine Martin Grange desperately w...

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