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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 1
by Glenys - 23:13 on 04 January 2022
Music Appreciation Group One
The first face-to-face meeting of 2022 of Music Appreciation Group One took place on Monday, 3 January, in Angela’s home. The theme was Composers/Musicians or Compositions beginning with the letters ‘Q’ and ‘R’. Not everyone of the group is yet willing to meet in person, but the four members who attended spent a very enjoyable morning listening to the following music:
Thomas QUASTHOFF (baritone) - with pianist Justus Zeyen – singing Robert Schumann’s Widmung, Op 25 No 1. AND – with pianist Daniel Barenboim – Schubert’s Der Lindenbaum from Der Winterreise, D911: 5;
Luciano Pavarotti, singing QUESTA O QUELLA, from Verdi’s Rigoletto;
Sergei Prokofiev, ROMEO AND JULIET, No 13, Dance of the Knights, Valery Gergiev, LSO; AND The Balcony Scene and Farewell, BBC Philharmonic;
Johann Joachim QUANTZ, Flute Concerto in D minor, AND Flute Quartet No 2 in E minor;
RESPIGHI, Pines of Rome, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan;
Manual QUIROGA, Guajira No 1, danza cubana;
Roger QUILTER, Sophie Macrae singing Fear No More The Heat of The Sun;
Amy QUATE, Light of Sothis;
Paulo QUILICHINI, Symphonia;
QIN YONGCHENG, Hai Bin Yin Shi, violinist Zongning Zhang;
Johannes de QUADRIS, Lamentum Virginis.
The next meeting, to be held on Monday, 7th February, will be at Glenys’s house, and the theme will be: Composers, or compositions, beginning with the letter ‘R’.
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