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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 Glenys - 11:07 on 10 August 2018
Twelve members of the Music Group (just two short of the total number, and surely the most to have turned up to a meeting) met at Louise's house on Monday, 6th.
With such a large membership now, the length of individual pieces of music has, by general consent, been limited to approximately five minutes, so each member of the group can usually expect that two of their selections will be played during the course of the meeting - which, of course, has a break in the middle for coffee and cake!
The topic chosen for August was 'Scottish', and this produced an eclectic mix of musical compositions.
Music played during the morning:
'Gallic Song' - Anne Martin (orchestra and harp);
'The Clan Wallace' - a street performance;
'Stornoway Sound' - a composition by Murray Grainger (Eithne's son) for accordion and fiddle;
'Walter Leask' - accordionists Murray Grainger and Amy Thatcher;
Two selections from 'Lucia di Lammermoor', by Donizetti;
The opening of Granville Bantock's 'Hebridean Symphony';
'Caberfeidh' - Willie Hunter and Violet Tulloch;
A recording of a St Kilda piano composition;
'A Child's Prayer', composed by James Macmillan as a tribute after the tragic Dunblane shootings;
'My Heart's in the Highlands' - by the Orcadian music group Fara;
'Calman the Dove' - Savourna Stevenson;
'Orcadia', composed and sung by Kathie Touin, a Californian composer who now lives in Quoyloo;
'Brose and Butter', by Robert Burns, played by the recorder ensemble, the Flautadors Quartet;
'Meditation' from 'Thais' - Nicola Benedetti;
'Aye Fond Kiss' - Eddi Reader;
'Highland Cathedral', a performance by bagpipes and orchestra;
'The Spey in Spate', composed by Scott Skinner and played by Alistair Savage;
A recording made by the School of Scottish Studies of Gaelic psalms.
The group will meet next on Monday, 3 September, at Glenys's house, and Jean's choice of topic is: LATIN AMERICAN, in its widest sense.
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