The Bermuda National Trust will hold their popular annual Spittal Pond Children's Walk this week.

Spittal Pond is the Trust's most important and largest nature reserve and bird sanctuary.

Guides will take children and their parents on tours stopping at points of interest like the Spanish Rock and the Checkerboard.

Groups will set off from the eastern parking lot every 15 minutes between 9 and 11 a.m. on Thursday Refreshments will be served at the end of the walk.

For more information 236-6483.

*** The Bermuda Girl Guide Association reminds all former Girl Guides to take part in a long standing tradition this weekend.

The Association will hold their Annual Thinking Day Service and parade through the streets of Hamilton this Sunday.

The service will take place at 3 p.m. at the Anglican Cathedral on Church Street in Hamilton.

*** The Bermuda National Gallery Film Series presents the Swedish film, The Sacrifice, by director Andrei Tarkovsky.

The film is about a man who seeks out symbolic sacrifice on the eve of a nuclear war as he gropes for psychological redemption.

The February 22 screening will get underway at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6.15 p.m.

Tickets are $4 for Bermuda National Gallery members and $6 for non-members.

For more information 295-9428.

*** A hi-tech video-link from one of Bermuda's famous shipwrecks is currently underway but is not yet complete.

The groundbreaking video-link up from the Pollockshields , lying just yards off the Elbow Beach Hotel may be joined by the Stonington Hotel.

The innovative plan is the brainchild of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI) and last year they stated that the idea had been well received by hotel management.

Its cost has not been revealed but local businesses have pledged sponsorship for the idea.

Jacqueline Horsfield, spokesperson for the BUEI explained: "The project is experiencing technical problems with installation and until installation is finished, the project will not be completed.'' The link will be made via state of the art digital cables to screens in the hotels, where live pictures will show visitors the wreck at different times of the day.

Cables could be split between the two sites -- next door to each other on South Road.

The 323-foot Pollockshields wrecked in 1914 after hitting the reefs. A captured German vessel, she was carrying ammunition at the time.

She has become a favourite dive site for scuba enthusiasts and snorkellers alike.

Work will start on the link-up as soon as the technical problems are resolved and at this point it will be determined whether it will include Elbow and Stonington hotels.