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 […]

Remembering seeing a goose beside the Tweed, by Tessa (shared at Merlindale Nature Festival, Drumelzier) Aidan was here (there, and everywhere on the Tweed!) (shared in Elsdon, Northumberland) My best friend is from here – Clovenfords (shared in Elsdon, Northumberland) A favourite hobby, blackberry picking at Peebles (shared at Merlindale Nature Festival, Drumelzier)

In the early 1990s we had friends – he was a GP – and I used to make clothes for their children. One day they said they had some fabric for me. They gave me a wonderful stack of fabric, most of it Harris Tweed. That was thirty years ago, and I still have some […]

At the meeting of the waters, you’ll still hear folks reminiscing about the time when different bridges crossed the river here. And how the hostelry on its bank had gone through many lives. As a local’s pub, basically a licensed room in somebody’s house, then extended to become a fancy gastro pub. Then private house […]

We decided to spend the first night of our honeymoon (heading for Orkney) at the historic Crook Inn. It turned out hilarious. The place was locked up for the night and a very disgruntled gentleman eventually opened the door. He then proceeded to treat us as if we were on a dirty night away! Which […]

Birgham. Lovely day on our wedding anniversary at Chain Bridge and Honey Farm. Stayed at Birgham. Moffat to Tweedswell. Summer solstice 2021, spectacular walk up from Moffat via the Devil’s Beeftub in search of the source. St Boswells. Lovely day spent with my daughter at the Donkey Sanctuary. These stories were shared anonymously as part […]