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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 JAN 15
by Tim Wright - 12:59 on 15 January 2015
Dear All,
The Orkney U3A Committee met today at Linden, Dounby. Amongst the items discussed were:
1 The New Member Leaflet.
This is now complete and will be passed to everyone joining the Orkney U3A. It explains about our U3A here, how it works plus the groups currently in operation. An email version will be sent to all the current members to see. Please forward it on to anyone you feel might be interested in becoming a member.
2 The draft General Meeting Programme for 2015.
This is in preparation but with some speakers' dates to be confirmed. A list of the next six months' speakers will be available to those paying their subscriptions at the AGM in March. We have decided to do away with the small cards that we gave out for renewal of subscriptions. The list will be on a sheet of paper instead. This gives us more flexibility in rearranging dates, times and speakers for the latter part of the season. A second sheet/update will be provided at the end of the summer. Please note that a number of the General Meetings will be on Tuesdays in future as we couldn't always get the Thursdays at the Library.
3 General Meeting payment.
It was decided that the General Meeting will cost £1.00 per person whether you have Tea/Coffee and a biscuit or not. This is to help cover the cost of the hire of the room as well as the tea, coffee, biscuits and our advertising of the meeting. This will start after the AGM in March.
4 All Scotland Meeting in Inverness.
A detailed set of reports were discussed about this meeting. Suffice it to say, further moves are mooted by the Scottish U3A to enable us to start Networking in various ways with our adjacent U3As. This will be in a similar way to the meeting that we hosted last June in Kirkwall. Another meeting is due to take place in March at which we will be represented and put our views forward. If you have any ideas, please let me or Hilary know.
5 The February Meeting
Please note that the February General Meeting is on TUESDAY 17th February and not on a Thursday. It is Rebecca Marr talking about Gunnie Moberg. You might like to visit the Gunnie Moberg Exhibition in the Orkney Museum which goes on until the end of Janurary before the talk. It is very good.
6 Blogs
New blogs have been added by the Music Appreciation Group and Scrabble Group on the Orkney U3A website on the Orkney Communities website. Other groups post regularly so it is a good way to see what is going on in the rest of the organization in Orkney apart from the General Meetings.
The next Committee Meeting will be on Tuesday 31st March.
All the best
Tim
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