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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.
October Music Group meeting
by Glenys - 17:57 on 01 October 2018
Music Appreciation Group
The October meeting of the Music Group took place at Alan and Angela’s on Monday 1st, and members had based their choices loosely around ‘Music to be played at my funeral/In celebration of my life/Memories’. The resulting music was a delightful mix of movements from the following:
Two separate choices from Richard Rodney Bennett’s “Reflections on a Scottish Folk Song” (‘Ca the yowes’), played by the cellist Paul Watkins, with the Philharmonia Orchestra;
Thomas Tallis’s “Spem in Alium”, sung by The Tallis Scholars;
Gracie Fields singing “Sing as We Go”;
Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Suite Algérienne”;
Bach, “Partita No 3 in E major” for solo violin, played by Fenella Humphreys;
Chuck Berry, singing his composition “Little Queenie”;
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the conductor Herbert von Karajan;
Woody Guthrie singing one of the Dust Bowl Ballads, “So Long, it’s been Good to Know You”;
Alexander Armstrong singing Manning Sherwin’s “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”;
The “Cavatina” from Beethoven’s “String Quartet No 13, played by the Alexander String Quartet;
“Si Bheag, Si Mhor”, played by the Irish group Plaxty (from their “Between the Jigs and the Reels:
A Retrospective”), with Liam O’Flynn playing the wonderful uilleann pipes;
Mozart, “Serenade ‘Gran Partita’”, played by the Linos Ensemble;
Bizet, duet from “The Pearl Fishers”, played on the flute and harp;
“Five & Twenty Questions”, composed and sung by the American singer/songwriter Mark Spoelstra;
John Denver singing his “Sunshine on my Shoulder”.
The next meeting will be on Monday, 5th November, and will take place at Louise’s house in Stromness. The theme will be advised in due course.
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