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DOVE COTTAGE HAS CLOSED DOWN AT JUBILEE LODGE

DOVE Cottage is delighted to announce that Oakham Grange has kindly offered temporary accommodation for its day care in their amazing new home at Barleythorpe.

The hospice has teamed up with the family-run care home, where its nursing services and wellbeing activities will take place for the next three months.

Dove’s tenancy on its beautiful premises at Ridlington has drawn to a close, and Oakham Grange has come to the hospice’s rescue.

It has resumed its day care services there from June 1st whilst it seeks a more permanent home.

Referrals for anyone living with a life-limiting condition, in need of a day’s respite, are now being received.

Chris Gatfield, Dove Cottage’s CEO, said: “We are extremely excited that Oakham Grange will be our new temporary home, and want to say a very big thank you. It is a lovely place with a homely atmosphere and creates the perfect environment for us to be able to offer the high standard of care that everyone knows us for. We can’t wait to work in partnership with Oakham Grange.”

Local Rutland residents living with life-limiting illnesses, such as cancer or heart failure, can benefit from the free, tailored day care package.

Guests of Dove will be treated to a full day of wellbeing activities, games, crafts, and a home-cooked lunch, as well as nursing care and advice.

As part of its commitment to the Rutland community, Oakham Grange is gifting use of a beautiful, self-contained annex to Dove Cottage free of charge for the next three months.

Catherine Ferguson, Oakham Grange’s general manager, said: “We know how important it is to the people of Rutland to keep care services such as Dove Cottage Day Hospice local. It is great that the timing is right for us to offer the Oakham Grange Annex on a temporary basis, so no one living with a life-limiting condition has to travel out of the county.”

Oakham Grange is a purpose-built home offering 24/7 residential care. It benefits from a well-appointed lounge, quiet areas, beautiful gardens, beauty salon and spa room.

Dove Cottage’s services have been running online and over the phone since Covid-19 forced the hospice to close its doors last March 2020.

Please contact us on 01572 722630 or rutland@dovecottage.org if you, or someone you know, could use our free care services.

 

FACTS

1.     Dove Cottage has two hospices – one at Oakham Grange care home, Oakham, Rutland, and one in Stathern, Leicestershire.

2.     We offer high quality palliative day care to people in Rutland, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire who are living with a life-limiting illness, such as cancer, motor neurone disease, heart failure, a respiratory disorder or a progressive neurological disease.

3.     As a charity, we offer our care services free of charge.

4.     The hospice’s care services will be available at Oakham Grange on a Tuesday.

5.     Dove Cottage Day Hospice’s care services will operate out of a beautiful, self-contained annex. It has a kitchen, lounge, outdoor space and bedrooms. It is secure and fully accessible. Oakham Grange is still open to paying residents.

6.     Oakham Grange is a bespoke new build residential home with nursing. Family owned and managed under the Ardale name, they have designed Oakham Grange to be a home suitable for a family member of their own. Not being a ‘grey corporate’ care company, they are proud that each of their homes are unique and they aim to be the care home of choice in the communities they serve.

7.     Mission Statement: Oakham Grange will deliver care and support that is meaningful to each individual; with dignity, warmth and personality, by a well-trained care team, as only a family owned home can.

8.     Video tour of Oakham Grange via website home page www.OakhamGrange.co.uk

 

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BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

Another wide-ranging selection this month introducing me to authors I had not previously read.

The first, “The Human Stain” by Philip Roth is one that I heartedly recommend and I will be on the lookout for others by this author.  It is set in the late 1990’s, in the time of President Clinton’s impeachment hearings and the scandal over Monica Lewinsky and the frenzy of prurience that released.  The story is narrated by Nathan Zuckerman who acts as an observer of the slowly revealing story of Coleman Silk, a retired professor of classics.  I thought the book not only well-written but a fascinating exploration of American morality and its effects.

Another American writer for the second offering of the month – “A Sinclair Lewis Reader – Selected Essays and Other Writings 1904 – 1950”.  You may have heard of him because he topped the Amazon best-selling books list in the aftermath of the 2016 US election with his 1935 dystopian satire “It Can’t Happen Here” detailing life after the election as President of a fascist.  Having turned down the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis became the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters” ably demonstrated in this selection of his writings providing critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars.  Particular highlights for me were “Gentlemen, This is a Revolution” and “Cheap and Contented Labor”.

This month’s third book, “The White Hotel” by D M Thomas, is not for everyone due to its explicit content and disturbing violence.  It is a multi-layered novel encompassing erotic fantasies, a case history of a patient as told by a young woman to Sigmund Freud and a testament to the Holocaust.  I didn’t find it an easy read but what is one man’s meat is another’s poison – it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 1981 Cheltenham Prize.

If you are interested in any of the books, please contact Debra Thatcher on 01572 823910 or by email debrathatcher@hotmail.com.

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RIDLINGTON RUNNING GROUP (RRG)

RRG is a small self-managed group. We enjoy running in and around our lovely village. We have obviously been restricted since the outbreak of Covid-19: as restrictions are easing from 17th May, we thought we would spread the word again.

We meet at 9:00 am every Saturday at the gate to Ridlington playing fields. Whilst numbers are small, we have created a WhatsApp group to keep ourselves updated of any changes and to stay in touch.

It’s all very relaxed and flexible with no commitment. We tend to do a ‘there and back’ route along the Top Road/Holygate Road. You go as far as you wish and at a pace which suits you, so caters for all abilities and experience.

When the Rutland Parkrun recommences, some of us will occasionally join them.

We support and encourage each other, and everyone is welcome.

We will always comply with current Government Guidelines in relation to Covid-19 restrictions.

If you are interested, please come and join us.  For more information contact:

Shelagh – 07592 590541
or
Anne – 07751 079775

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SO WHODUNNIT?

A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED!

 

 

Zoom rehearsals for ‘Death at the Deanery’ are going with a swing and much merriment – oh so necessary after the gloomy year we have all endured! Our performance of the dastardly Deanery doings will take place at:

 

Preston Village Hall

Saturday October 9th, 2021
at 7:30pm

 

So yes, the Ridlington Players are roving down the lane! Make a note in your diaries to share in the thrills and spills of our mystery drama!

 

 

WARNING: THERE WILL BE LAUGHTER. BRING A HANKIE!

Margie Wall
Ridlington Players

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DATE CHANGE FOR THE FLOWER FESTIVAL

NEW DATE FOR FLOWER FESTIVAL

The date of the Agatha Christie inspired flower festival has been moved to coincide with the staging of the play so it will now be held on 9th and 10th October, 2021.

More volunteers required.  Please contact Debra Thatcher for more details.

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HOMELESS COLLECTION – JUNE UPDATE

Firstly may I thank all of the people who have contacted me during the last year, offering clothes etc for the homeless. I have had to ask you to be patient as storage facilities have been full and the homeless have been housed in hostels. As they return to the streets the storage space will be eased.

I have been in touch with the Peterborough charity organiser who says that they can now take men’s jackets and sleeping bags. If you have these articles to donate, I will be pleased to receive them. As a greater variety of articles are needed, I will let you know.

I hope you have all kept well and that you are enjoying our gradual return to freedom.  Many thanks for your continued support in helping the homeless.

Margie & Martin Wall
8 East Lane
Ridlington
07928378668
01572 821397

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FOODBANK COLLECTION DATES – JUNE 2021

FOODBANK COLLECTION DATES:

Your continued generosity is much appreciated.

Collection dates for June are:
Wednesday, 9th and
Wednesday, 23rd June.

The boxes are in the church porch and, in addition to the usual food items, there is a special request for shampoo, shower gel, deodorant and hand soap.

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CHURCH AFTERNOON TEAS

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour
dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
Henry James

So please join us for that quintessentially English tradition between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm at Chimney Cottage on the following dates:

Wednesday 9th June

Wednesday 11th August

All welcome 😊