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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.
Scrabble Group
by Angela - 23:29 on 24 June 2017
News Of the U3A Scrabble Club -
We continue to meet in the Town Hall every Friday at 10 a.m.
For 1£ ,to cover hire of the room ,we usually have about three games per table-though some tables are quicker than others!
There is a coffee and tea machine in the room-
WE stopped having cake and biscuits for obvious reasons!
We invite everyone who likes a good challenge to join us-you could drop in casually for a game and try us out!
WE are of varying ability-some have played for many years ,others have restarted recently-
Among recently found new words-( well,new to some of us) are ----
Brank -iron mask for talkative women
Swage-hammering
Feen-Irish dialect for man
Sime-African sword
Lunt-produce smoke
Whid-to move quickly
Edh - character in Runic alphabet
Cully-to trick ,a pal
Hond-old form of hand
Cairds -travelling tinker
Jarp-strike or smash
Kex-type of plant-
Quonk-to manke an accidental noise while broadcasting-Snod-Scots word for tidy-
Pavid -fearful
There were many others!
WE are hoping that the readers will respond to our invitation to join us.
Angela
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