That summer morning in 2024, stepping into Berwick with the promise of Lowry and the Sea. The culmination of destinations. Not just my own, but also in the Tweed’s own travels. From the Southern Uplands of Scotland, right through to meet me here. An old friend calling me back. The walk towards the Granary Gallery […]

My dad died in October 2010 and after the funeral, my sister and her two children (4½ and 2½ months) were able to stay with me and my mum for some much needed family time. We took some day trips out to places we had been to with my dad, taking a picnic and creating […]

Books possess a remarkable power to whisk us away to different times and places. The Borders has long been a muse for writers, inspiring them to create enduring poetry, ballads, and literature that beautifully depict our landscape. Sir Walter Scott drew on Scottish history and landscapes to inspire his timeless classics including several books which […]

BURNFOOT, LOWER DRYBURGH, RIVER TWEED. It was a sad but glorious morning at Burnfoot on the Lower Dryburgh beat when we tipped his ashes from the urn into the river – the magnificent beech and oak trees were starting to colour with autumn hues and bowed gently with respect in the very slight breeze. It […]

James Valentine, working for his family company, took some of the earliest photographs of the Tweed in the 1860’s.

According to the medieval tale, ‘The Life of Merlin of the Forest’, Merlin lived in the woods of the South of Scotland in the late 6th Century.