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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 Group
by Angela - 13:28 on 09 September 2017
U3A Music group - Happenings for September
We met on Monday September the 4th in Orphir-and our topic was the Oboe-
We are very happy to have three new members-which is super-Which brings our number up to about 15-
Naturally we had several concertos for Oboe-by Vincenso Bellini,another by Handel-and another by Vaugan Williams-
A couple of Quartets-Mozart and Albinoni-Other works by Zippoli,Bach,StraussBerlioz,Moriconi,Prokoviev-
Soloists included-Nicholas Daniel-Anhtony Camden,and Gordon Hunt-
Some of us supply handouts which give further background to the piece selected-which makes it very interesting-I E -biography of the instrumentalist-details of the instrument-ect.
In a lighter mode we had a few (awful ) Oboe jokes-
One of the ( slightly better ones)
Q-What is the definition of a half step?
A-Two Oboists playing in unison.
We also learned a bit of the history of the instrument-and of Howarth-leading makers in London-
An interesting meeting
Our next one will be on October the 2nd chez Glenys-in Kirkwall
Address-
Koonawarra, Heathery Loan, St Ola - 873084
And the theme selected is the Clarinet-
We break for refreshments and time usually allows to play two items each-Do join us
Angela
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