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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 Group
by Angela - 21:26 on 08 November 2017
The U3A Music Group-
Meets on the 1st Monday of the month at 10-30 a,m,
And we last met on Monday the 6th November-
Our theme was -Strings not Bowed-
We all thank Louise for hosting the 13 of us-and providing lovely bakes-
I will include some of our very varied and interesting selection-
This was (for me) a time when I learned much-some instruments I had barely heard of and knew nothing about-
One duo ,comprising of a jazz bassist and a classical mandolinist-both of Morocan ancestry-the disc is called Avital-the surname of both musicians ,though not related-
Another duo we listened to was a Kora -Harp-couple-one Welsh and the other Senegalese-
We had also-Hammered Dulcimer-Celtic Harp-Harpsichord-Piano-The Theorbo-which is a large bass lute- Guitar-and the Guzheng.
Among the other artists were Segovia-Peter Maxwell Davies-
Carawan-
Composers included Dowland-Bach-Shuhua Lou-Vivaldi-Terrega-Scriabin-Chopin-Ponce-Beethoven.
We finished with Apache-the Shadows.
Our next meeting will be 4th December at Valeries-when our theme will be"Seasonal" i.e. Advent-Christmas-12th night-Midwinter ect-
We hope for a seasonal singalong as well -if people will get the music to Valerie prior to the time-
We invite anyone to join us-
angela
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