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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.
CHAIRMAN'S BLOG 2
by Richard Thomas - 11:18 on 12 June 2012
CHAIRMAN’S BLOG - 11/6/12
In thinking about how we might attract more members to the U3A, I have been wondering whether our title might act as deterrent to some folk. Is it possible that the word ‘university’ is off-putting in that it implies a level of academic endeavour and perhaps formality? We know that it’s not the case and clearly we are part of the University of the Third Age and can’t move away from it even if we wished. It seems to me that if we were to give more publicity to our programme and to the activities of the groups, we could overcome a least some of the possible misconception about what we’re about.
Am I right about this or barking up the wrong tree?
Richard
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I gather that there have been recent discussions about getting reports of group activities into "The Orcadian", I am sure that this would help to show what range of activities are catered for.
We also need to try and get some other groups up and running although I realise that it is not easy to get the initial support and organisation for new groups.
Maybe if we had posters with photos of the skydiving group it would help.