A Friendly Welcome

A Friendly Welcome

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 woodlands, held in Innerleithen in May 2026.

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