Always love to see the Heron. A magical bird. One appeared the first afternoon I was moving into a flat in Peebles, perched on the neighbour’s fence. It was a great welcome. This special memory was shared at Tales of the Riverbank, a joint Tweed Stories and Riverwoods event celebrating the Tweed and its riverside […]

Extracts from a recorded interview with Jen Bulloch, manager of the Wee Crook. It’s definitely not just a café. We get locals every single day. We’re open seven days a week. You’ll get people coming from all over and it’s definitely a meeting place. It’s got a special feel hence the reason why we decided […]

Extract from an interview with Maureen Thornborrow who remembers growing up near the Fruid reservoir and attending Tweedsmuir Primary School. If you’ve never been up to Fruid, you should go for a look and see where I grew up. And then subsequently all my children grew up after that. A wonderful playground, it’s very remote […]

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 […]