While building the dam, a crane fell on top of where I was standing! At the last minute I saw it falling and managed to evade it falling on top of me. After two years the dam was completed at Tweedsmuir.

Out for a Sunday drive with my son who is learning to drive. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when we thought we would take a trip out to Moffat for lunch. Got to Moffat from Lochmaben but didn’t feel too hungry and decided to keep driving, good experience for the learner. We just fancied […]

I remember walking along the Tweed in Innerleithen in June 1986 with my family. I was trying to catch little tiddlers by the edge of the water in my flimsy yellow net. I managed to catch one which my brother helped me land! However, he promptly fell in the water and I lost the fish […]

She tucks her frozen fingers into the pockets of her rough woolen jacket Getting close to the familiar clunking of the heavy machinery racket The mesmerising hum glides down walls made of stone And bumps over cobbled streets where mill children had grown Over the wall, as she passes, she hears the flow of the […]

Golden Eagles have always been a proud element in Scottish wildlife. People will tell you that a glimpse of an eagle soaring high over mountains and lochs is a memory to be treasured for a lifetime. However, despite the overall increase in eagle numbers throughout much of Scotland, this growth has not been seen in […]

Yes, there used to be a railway station in Moffat! By the 1870s, many people wanted to visit the spa town of Moffat. But the only way to get to Moffat was by horse and cart*. So, as you might have guessed, people decided that Moffat needed a railway. Unfortunately, the Caledonian Railway decided not […]