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Walking Group One 25th April 2024
Five hardy souls collected today at Happy Valley for the first Hill Walk of the year .The temperature was cool with a North Easterly wind blowing and a hint of rain on arrival.
Off we set heading towards Russadale Quarry, spotting a Buzzard on the way.Turning into the footpath we remained sheltered from the wind all the way to the top of the hill.
The sun was out at the Quarry and a Greenshank was feeding at the edge of the Lochan. Then it was up the Peat road to the summit with spectacular views across Stenness and Harray Lochs, plus a view of the Closed Road beyond the Watch Stone. On the other side we looked over the Flow and down towards the Oil Platform and South Ronaldsay
Then it was back down after a stop for a snack and finally a walk around Happy Valley itself. The Daffodils planted by James and others were looking lovely and the Bluebells are days away from opening. Then it was on to a well deserved lunch at the Pier Cafe, having walked 4 miles and gone up 800 feet (and down again )
The next walk will be on Friday 24th May and hopefully more hills and views.
Keep moving.
U3A Scrabble Group
by Angela - 14:48 on 19 March 2016
The U3A scrabble group shares e few new (to us) words that we have recently come across in our games -
If only we could use them in our day to day conversations!
But the opportunity does not happen that often!!
Aggri-African beads
Zep-a long sandwich
Toke-a drag on a canabis cigarette
Ankus-a stick for goading elephants
Vav -"V" in Hebrew
Vaw-"W" in Hebrew
Matei-a New Zealand tree
Friz-a course fabric
Fink-inform
Oyer-an assize
Gleba -mass of spores
Skaw -headland
Faa-fall
Fritz-state of disrepair
Trin-triplet
We meet weekly-though not all of us attend each session -
Scrabble players are welcome to give the group a try -
We can guarentee some laughs and a challenge
Angela
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