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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.
Music Appreciation Group
by Angela - 21:11 on 05 April 2016
The U3A music group met on Monday the 4th of April-and our theme was " Russia and or Russians"-
Here follows some of the items we listened to--as one can imagine Russian choirs were well represented-and Tchaikovsky-plus some lovely music that was new to some of us-also composers we had never heard of-though the music was beautiful--
From a C.D. called St.Petersburgh Classics-we listened to Song of the Cherubim by Dimitri Bortnianskywho was Ukranian-
The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimski Korsakov-
Another composer new to us was Lyadov-The Enchanted Lake-
We must have listened to half a dozen pieces by Tchkovsky-some new -some very familiar-The
music we select has to be short-or an excerpt-in order that we can all have a couple of turns of playing our choice-
Then we had some Rachmaninov ,Shostakovich,Stravinsky,Prokofiev,and some Schuman played by Horovitz.
As usual-We all heard something new and learned a few things about the composers and their music-
Our next meeting is on the 2nd May-and the theme will be Opera and Operettas 1860-----1960.
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