Becks Burn and John's New Car



Another Wednesday walk but instead of travelling out of town we decided to stay local so we could watch the Cheltenham Race Meeting in the afternoon. John, Tom, and I walked up to Springhill to collect Bowman and David and we headed off up to Becks Burn and then up Meikleholm, The Old Roman Road, The Cushetts, Potholm, Pathhead, The High Mill Brig, and then home via Rugby Club and the Ty Pennington walk. This was almost 10 miles so it was an excellent walk and maybe just as well nobody could evesdrop our conversation as it was very interesting and extremely humerous. The reason for the photographs of the Becks Burn is because a local walker pointed out to me that there was a lot of fallen trees in the burn and this could cause problems in a flood as it could damage the wooden bridge put there 12 years ago for walkers. As you can see it is a problem so these photos will be sent to the Access officer of D & G Council who hopefully will include some maintenance work in next years footpaths budget or else the cost of a new bridge could be considerably more.

On our way home we stopped off at John's Mums house in Charles Street to have a look at his new Jaguar car. It is beautiful and John looks after it so well. If you ever have to buy a car he has owned you will certainly get a car that has been well looked after and this one will hold it's value for many years to come.