I moved to the Scottish Borders for college from North Wales and soon found work on both Mossfennan and Drumelzier Place…very enjoyable place to work with my dog Nel.

Drumelzier is a special place where my family roots are and the Tweed provides the backdrop. My father was born at Drumelzier Place Farm around 1914. The Browns lived all around the area, Tweedsmuir, Drumelzier, Broughton, Biggar. Lovely memories spending holidays there with grandparents. I learned to swim in the River Tweed.

Join Connecting Threads for a screening of Rave On for the Avon, a tender documentary directed by Charlotte Sawyer about a community of wild swimmers in Bristol fighting to save their beloved bathing spot, affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. Stay for a post-screening discussion with open water swim coach and botanist Ingrid Campbell of Tweed […]

Join Connecting Threads for a flying fish flag puppet-making workshop, procession & optional community swim in celebration of the River Tweed. Following the April 24th screening of documentary Rave On for the Avon, we’re delighted to be joined by river bride Meg Avon and artists Grace Morton and Elvey Anna Stedman for a workshop, procession, and swim celebrating the River Tweed! […]

I swim in the River Tweed all year round, she has become a playful companion in my life and I often have wildlife encounters particularly when I’m alone in the water. When you are just a bobbing head you no longer present such a threat to the wildlife, particularly birds. I have crept up to […]

Summer, what summer. There hasn’t been one The rain, the wind, the chill and the cloud When will it ever end All summer long we wait, more in hope now than expectation Scottish kids go back to school, no sun; robbed of their regular summer glow And yet… and yet…..these last few days… The grandkids […]