Go tae sleep mi bonny bairnie The Moon is keekin ower the brae And by oor hame the river’s flowin Frae Lowther Hills tae Berwick bay Courie in mi bonny bairnie Happed up warm in a cloot o tweed While salmon dart in the cauld derk watter As the heron sleeps amang the reeds This […]

It’s a beautiful late afternoon in August as I walk along Berwick’s Elizabethan walls. The sea is calm. The tide is out. In the estuary, where the Tweed meets the North Sea, a colony of mute swans gather beneath a perfect blue sky. Other people are also enjoying the path, the dog walkers and runners […]

At the meeting of the waters, you will still hear folks reminiscing about that time long ago. It was a summer evening on the banks of the great River Tweed, when they strapped Mary Ellen onto the ducking stool, tied her hands with twine. Her skin was grazed by the rough splinters on the arms […]

The Tweed Valley Osprey Project was set up in 1998 to help to establish a breeding population of ospreys in the Scottish Borders. When the project started there were no known nests in the area. Now, 25 years later, we have around 18 active nests and over 350 chicks have been raised across the Tweed […]

On the Fruid road near Menzion are three standing stones, dating from about 2000BC, the largest of which is named the Giant’s Stone. They are often referred to as a Druid Circle, or remains of a Druid Temple, but they predate the Druids. Tweedsmuir Parish records of 1845 state that there were other stones, but […]

Bertha lived in a shepherd’s house at Badlieu, and was known for her beauty. She was an only child and lived with her father, her mother having died in childbirth. King Kenneth III – Kenneth the Grim – was a wise, good looking and charming man who ruled Scotland between 996 and 1004. He was […]