Snorkelling in the river is like flying over the landscape – columns of rock creating a canyon. I am a long time outdoor swimmer and I love exploring (said Jacquie, who lives near Biggar). I tried snorkelling near Carlowse Bridge on the road to Tweedsmuir. There were no fish, but a huge trout jumped out […]

Peebles Bowling Club meets on Mondays and Thursdays and finishes at 12.15. I am a full time carer for my wife, but I go to the bowling club then cycle across the Peebles rugby fields and hide my bike in the wood. Then I sit beside the river, opposite Kings Meadow woodland, with my Book […]

In the 1200s, the Tweedies of Drumelzier went off to fight in the Crusades. When one of the Tweedy men came back, he discovered his wife had mysteriously fallen pregnant while he was away. She told him, ‘The devil came out of the Tweed’! The Spirit of the Tweed. A great story! Different versions of […]

Happy memories where waters meet… Skimming stones where the Biggar Water joins the Tweed [just north of Drumelzier] Swimming at Merlin’s Grave, where the Powsail Burn and the Tweed meet [also north of Drumelzier] Walking along the prom with Great Aunt Betty [at Berwick, where the Tweed meets the sea] Ingrid asked: Tributaries in Scotland […]

There are different ways of enjoying the waters in Merlindale, according to these locals. Boating on the field – when our grandson was little and the river flooded the fields here, we would put him in the rubber dinghy to paddle around on the floodwaters because we knew it was safe! My favourite swimming spot […]

In June 2026, the Albert Watson Memorial Hut, a bike bothy at Tweedsmuir, needed a new roof. The hut was built in 1947 for a Glasgow cycling club and is still used with permission by cyclists wanting overnight accommodation. The cost of the roof repairs was about £3,000, and I estimated I could get 60 […]