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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 Appreciation Group One - August
by Glenys - 13:10 on 29 August 2022
Music Appreciation Group One
On Monday, 1 August, members met at Glenys’s house for two hours of music with the theme:
‘Composers, musicians and composers beginning with the letters ‘U’ AND ‘V’ (it being presumed
that pieces/musicians with the initial ‘U’ might be very thin on the ground!). An extremely
enjoyable morning was the result, as follows:
UT queant laxis – Gregorian Chant;
UNICO Wilhelm van Wassenaer, ‘Concerto Armonico No 6’, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra;
Peter VASKS, ‘Summer Dances’ – Priya Mitchell and Hugo Ticciati;
‘The World How Wide: a choral reimagining of VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’ ‘Fantasia on a Theme
by Thomas Tallis’;
Marco UCCELLINI, ‘La Bergamasca;
Francesco USPER, ‘Ave Maria’;
VILLA LOBOS, ‘Uipuru’;
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, ‘The Lark Ascending’ (as originally heard) – Julia Hrang, violinist;
VIVALDI, ‘Winter’ (‘The Four Seasons’), Mari Samuelson;
Maxim VENGEROV, Beethoven’s ‘Violin Concerto in D major, op61;
VIENNA Philharmonic Orchestra, Samuel Barber ‘Adagio for Strings, op11’ (summer night
concert, 2019).
The next meeting will be on Monday, 5 September. As there is such a choice, it was decided to
continue with the letter ‘V’.
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