Please take a photograph of your group "in action." Don't forget to ask for permission from everyone for the photo to be published on the web. Then email it to the address below and we will upload it to the gallery.
Photography Group One 1st May 2024
Ten of us met at the roadside Car Park in Finstown on a day with little wind and some low cloud but with the sun trying to get through. We set off to the Community Garden where we found lots of lovely colourful flowers out as well as tree buds bursting forth. The Burn was a great source of images.
Jocky Wood was painting a new picnic bench with the appropriately titled Wood Stain! He does a great deal of the work on the garden as well as his own just up the hill opposite.
Six of us then headed for Binsgarth Woods.
The track was muddy in places but the spring flowers were out all the way. There was Pink Purselaine, Wild Garlic, Wood Anemone, and the invasive Salmon Berry. Since the tree leaves were not blanketing the light, one was able to get good photos close up. The Burn had lots of interesting tree roots and hanging tyres and ropes from the kids' dare devil antics. Then it was back to the shop for rolls and along to Tom's house for a cuppa and a nice piece of cake. Thank you very much for that Tom and all the stories too.
The next meeting will be going to Westray on Wednesday 29th May for the day. Arrangement will be made nearer the time.
All in all a lovely morning, taking time to look at the flowers and listen to the Wrens, Willow Warblers, Chaffinches and Robins singing in the woods.
Keep clicking.
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.
Tim's Blog March 2014
by Tim Wright - 20:18 on 26 March 2014
Dear All,
The new committee met today at Alan Way's house due to his infirmity,
having broken his ankle.
Items discussed were
1 Update of committee members and the Groups and Leaders. These now appear on the Orkney U3A website
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2 All group leaders are asked (and should get a reminder from Sally ) to send a list of Members attending their meetings to Sally .
This is so that the names of those attending can be checked against the Master membership list to see they are on it and have paid their subscription. We are still finding the occasional member that does not appear on the Master list and thus is not officially a member of Orkney U3A.It is important, as they are, therefore, not covered by the U3A insurance scheme, which is of great relevance in the Walking/Bird/photography groups especially . So, Group Leaders take this in hand as soon as possible.
3 Full banking /Treasurer responsibilities were passed to Sally Mackintosh, [email protected]
Adress Breckness ,Stenness ,Orkney
Please send subscriptions to her, payable to Orkney U3A ,before 30th April or pay at the next meeting.
4 There was considerable discussion over publicity for Orkney U3A and our meetings as undertaken by Kate Barrett.She will continue to put reports of our activities into the Orcadian. She is keen to have photos of the groups ,if she is writing about them and we will try to get photos of our speakers to go with the reports ,if possible. She will also put details of our General Meetings in The Orcadian,The Orkney Advertiser ,in the Library's and on Radio Orkney giving a week's notice as far as possible. Contact details for the Orkney U3A will be the website and Hilary Morrell's email address. Hilary will then invite prospective new members to the General Meetings and also direct them to the relevant group leaders for further information and discussion of their interests.
5 Sally will be sending out flyers that we have received about ,
A . How to access the National U3A website.
B. Details of the National U3A Photographic Competition
The next General Meeting is Fran Hollindrake on St Magnus Cathedral but including areas you may never have been in ! This on 17th April at The Kirkwall Library at 2pm.
All the Best,
Tim Wright
Chairman
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