Berwick I was born in Castle Hills, overlooking the Tweed 😊 Kelso Got married by the Tweed here (views of the Tweed) Coldstream I remember many days pushing a pushchair along the side of the river, walking the dogs and playing with the kids Union Chain Bridge Jumping from the bridge – road or top! […]

Rally in the valley I have very many happy memories of marshalling on motor rallies in the Tweed Valley Forests in the 1980s. Hot and dusty! Find out more at forestryandland.gov.scot/visit/forest-parks/tweed-valley-forest-park A welcoming community Had a lovely hike in Cardrona forest, but the bus back to Edinburgh was cancelled for hours due to an accident. […]

Moffat Munchies As a family we stopped in Moffat on our way up the M74. We all loved the famous Moffat toffee! Tweedswell takes flight As the crow flies… Tweedswell to Berwick – 62 miles Edinburgh – 37 miles Glasgow – 41 miles But we’re not going by crow! Touring Tweed’s historic houses Travelling around […]

I knew a local who used to do an awful lot of poaching, and a certain policeman in Peebles was always trying to catch him. He was coming along the street on his bike, and the policeman spied him with a big parcel under his arm. And he says, ‘What have you got in the […]

When I was 12 or 13 we had this new teacher who suggested we went on a nature walk. ‘Certainly, Sir!’ So we’d go up Cademuir and the Manor, and when we were up Manor we were away killing salmon! That was the last nature walk we ever got. I left school on the Friday […]

The Mill Dam was emptied once a year at the Annual Mill Holidays in August. Lots of the young lads would ‘guddle’ the trout that were left in the clearing [catch the fish with their hands]. The Dam also had a bridge over it at the end where it went into the Tweed. This was […]