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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
by Angela - 22:56 on 09 January 2018
The U3A music group last met on Monday the 8th in Orphir-and our theme this time was "The Organ"-
We take it in turn to chose a theme-this was Babs choice-
An inspired one as some of us had limited knowledge of this subject-
Luckily we have two very knowledgable members of the group-who could play and were enthusiastic in sharing their knowledge-
We learned much about the history,construction and technique of the instrument-as well as the venues-
Bach was well represented ,but we also heard pieces by Handel,Guillaume de Machout,Jan Pieterszoon Sweelink,Saint-Saens,Elgar and Tchaikovsky.
The organs we listened to included the Kelvingrave,built for the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901,Dunblane Cathedral,Winchester Cathedral,Paisley Abbey,Merton College Oxford and A cinema Wurlitzer in Kingston on Thames.
Sizes differ-from one that could fit into a large van to the worlds biggest organ in Philadelphia-with 28750 pipes in 464 ranks-
We meet on the first Monday of the month-at 10-30 a.m.-
We do need additional members-
angela
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