PICTURES: Highland dancing display as Thurso care home celebrates Burns Night
Burns Night was celebrated in style at Pentland View care home in Thurso.
Staff and residents enjoyed a range of activities, including a Burns-themed quiz and a display from some of the dancers from the Tanya Horne School of Highland Dance.
There was a traditional supper of haggis, neeps and tatties, along with bagpipe tunes and displays of “red, red roses”.
Willie Bain gave the address to the “great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race” and showed off his haggis-stabbing skills.
Pentland View activities coordinator Jeanine Sinclair felt it had been a perfect way to celebrate the ploughman poet.
“Burns Night is always a fantastic event at Pentland View and it’s so important to continue these traditions,” she said.
“Our residents enjoyed a hearty meal of haggis with neeps and tatties, all prepared by our stellar chef Jane.
“We also had great fun discovering how much we knew about Scotland with our brilliant Scottish quiz, and had a good laugh at the fact that I, as an American, was the one leading the celebrations!”
Will Menzies, one of the residents, described the dancers as “marvellous” and reminisced about his own days as a Highland dancer in his youth.
Pentland View is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers. Pentland View provides nursing care, residential care and respite care.
