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 […]

Our dog, Rosie, is an 8 year old black Labrador. She is a rescue dog. Usually she is very sensible and calm, despite being very people-centered. In 2025, after a night and a day of heavy rain, my partner took her for a walk along her favourite section of the Tweed, near Maxton. The river […]

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.

I swim in the River Tweed all year round, she has become a playful companion in my life and I often have wildlife encounters particularly when I’m alone in the water. When you are just a bobbing head you no longer present such a threat to the wildlife, particularly birds. I have crept up to […]

Writer John Mackay Wilson (1804-35), who was born and lived in Tweedmouth, returned to his hometown to take up the role of Editor to The Berwick Advertiser in 1832. Two years later, he started publication of his Tales of the Borders, which became international bestsellers for the best part of 120 years. Sadly, Wilson died […]