I recently read a book which talked of places that exist beyond any map, and it got me thinking. If you look at a map of the River Tweed, you’ll see how to travel from one point to the next, but it doesn’t tell you that up on the high street was a shop run […]

The Horncliffe Salmon Procession is an annual winter festival in the village of Horncliffe, Northumberland, celebrating the River Tweed’s historic salmon fishing heritage with a torchlit parade of handmade lanterns, traditional music (often featuring Border Morris dancers like Rag Bag Morris), food, and a bonfire, marking the end of winter darkness and the return of […]

My first memory of the Scottish Borders was seeing a hedgehog in the garden of the house we first lived, near the Old Peel Hospital on the banks of the River Tweed. My mum woke me up to see it and we put out a dish of milk. I remember drinking elderflower cordial for the […]

My Mum, sister, and I moved to Cornhill-on-Tweed in the 1970s, where my Mum taught at Cornhill First School for many years. My sister and I spent hours playing in the stream at the bottom of the field behind our house, which ran through the old mill and into the Tweed. We stayed away from […]

I walk the Tweed regularly with my border collies between the Tweed Bridge at Manor and the Barns estate. Have done so for the last 30+ years. So many happy times spent there walking in all seasons watching the spring birds arrive, seeing kingfishers and otters and other wildlife. I especially love the arrival of […]

In 2004 I was employed by an arts in education initiative running projects with students to encourage storytelling through filmmaking and photography. Canoes and Cameras is part of an early project with year 6 pupils from Ashington schools. Their first time in canoes and first time using a video camera. You can watch our experience […]