Senior center combats boredom by recreating iconic album covers

With much of the world still hunkering down to combat the spread of Covid-19, it’s safe to say many folks have developed some unexpected ways to entertain themselves. For some, it’s puzzles! For others, knitting! So many sourdough starters have been born! This writer is now in two book clubs and took a candle-making class over Zoom. (It was weird but sort of great.) Erykah Badu and Jill Scott did an Instagram battle that was really just sort of the two of them hanging out and making music and asking each other how they were doing. But Sydmar Lodge, a senior care center in the U.K, has just about everyone else beat. (Well, everyone but Jill and Erykah, anyway.)
Robert Speker, the activities coordinator at the center, has been helping residents recreate iconic album covers while Sydmar is in lockdown (that’s four months and counting). The results are… perfect?
Speker told the Jewish News that it’s all part of an effort to keep residents entertained. “A few weeks ago I hosted a 100th birthday for a resident with her family on Zoom. It was wonderful but sad because she should have had the party she deserved,” adding: