Activities at Pentland View Care Home

Our monthly session of Zumba with Steph was Halloween themed this month, and saw residents and staff alike doing their best ghoulish impersonations! What a laugh we all had. We look forward to these sessions each month and always end feeling so happy and uplifted.

The residents all enjoy getting out and about in the local community, whether to help with shopping for around the home, for a meal, or for personal errands. It’s always nice to see familiar faces around the town and stop for a chat, reminisce about how things have changed, and to have a good old browse round the shops! Recently we have been to the garden centre in Castletown to get bulbs for planting round the front of the home and then to the Pentland for coffee, to Lidl for Halloween pumpkins and goodies and decorations for our upcoming party, to the Holborn for a meal, and through the charity shops for rummage items and then to the Y-Not for a coffee.

Residents across our services had a fantastic time enjoying the virtual screening of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Frank Spencer’s comical misadventures had everyone laughing and it was wonderful to see so many happy faces. 

Thank you to everyone who joined us and a special thanks to The Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds for bringing this stage adaptation of the beloved sitcom to our screens.

Throughout September, we were lucky to have three musical guests in to play for us. 

We enjoyed Hugh Dent into sing his traditional favourites, Alan Small in to play the accordion, and local musician and friend Robbie MacDonald in to play as well. Everyone enjoys the live music, and as you can see, they love to get up and have a dance too! We had so much fun singing and dancing along.

With the mini heatwave we had recently, residents enjoyed getting out and about and enjoying it while it lasted! From spending time in our beautiful garden, to trips in the mini-bus, residents sure knew how to make the most of the beautiful days. 

In the garden, residents enjoyed singing and dancing to music specially curated by themselves to our Spotify account, and also a wee session of relaxing yoga! 

Residents also hit the road and enjoyed trips to the library and to local sweetie and ice cream shop, Banjo’s. The ice creams were then enjoyed by the sea, as was only right in such a glorious day!!

Willie and Sandra were delighted to join residents from our sister home in Wick on a trip to Inverness. After a lovely meal in Weatherspoon’s, it was time to do some shopping! 

While the gentlemen headed to Howden’s garden Centre, the ladies were off to Leakey’s Books and the had a lovely coffee outside Miele’s Gelateria. Next stop was The retail centre for the Works, as the ladies still needed to find their books! Here, they happily took advantage of the multi-buy deals and left very happy customers. 

Finally, after a stop at Costa, we boarded the mini bus once again and headed home. It was lovely watching the scenery and chatting about it along the way.