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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.
u3a Cinema Group - October 2023 (2)
by Keith Ramsay - 18:39 on 28 October 2023
Attendance at the latest outing showed a 100% increase over last time! I know Science Fiction isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (you’ve told me!), but it was good to see people who were prepared to give it a go!
It was a fairly formulaic Star Wars type of movie, except that the baddie this time was a an all powerful computer in the guise of a child. Nothing very original there, but at least it gave the special effects guys lots to play with.
As a geek,I would have liked a bit more depth & technical background to the story, rather than the usual AI mantra of the all-seeing intelligence bent on controlling us all.
The effects were very clever, if you like that sort of thing. As usual with the genre, there were no big stars in the cast, except for Gemma Chan from BBC’s ‘Humans’ (she is in danger of being typecast as a robot!), & Alison Janney (CJ from ‘West Wing’ ),leaving more money in the budget for the graphics……how long, I wonder, before an AI is producing its own films? One of many scary thoughts associated with AI……
Nobody in our group actively disliked it, but there was some ‘damning with faint praise’, which I think was justified. And it kept us all quiet for a couple of hours! (No mean feat!). As usual, we went for a chat about the film in the Picky coffee bar afterward where we put the world to rights, amongst other things.
There are a couple of good films on the way, back on more familiar ground, so watch out for our plans to go & see them. The more, the merrier!
All the best, Keith.
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