Hannah the Fashion Model

Hannah is staying with Granny and Grandad for a few days and she has just come back from 2 weeks in Holland where she bought this lovely new coat.

Hannah meets Lindsay

Doreen & Lindsay are here to finalise arrangements for Lindsay's wedding next April so they came over to meet Fiona, Mario, and Hannah at Brockbush Farm Shop. Hannah then came back with us for an Easter holiday with Granny and Grandad.

Eskdalemuir Forest Road

This road which cost taxpayers £5 Million is almost 3 miles long and enables Timber Lorries to avoid the village of Eskdalemuir and Samye Ling Tibetan Centre as they head towards Lockerbie and the M74. We walked the route today and not one Timber Lorry used it. It would seem the government are happy to build an expensive detour avoiding a small village but wont do anything to stop 300 quarry wagons a day taking a longer journey to avoid Langholm. This photograph taken includes Elliot Harkness from Hawick who joined us on our Monday walk for the first time today.

A new friend for Fiona

On our visit to White House Farm at the weekend the most captivating animals were without doubt the baby goats and this one in particular was so nice Fiona almost took it home with her.

Berwick reclaimed for Scotland

Tom stands on the Scotland/England Border to reclaim Berwick back into Scotland. The sound quality is very poor due to the wind so you will need to listen very carefully to Tom's declaration.

Burnmouth Statue

Martin,John, and Tom taken in front of the beautiful bronze statue erected to commemorate the fishing disaster of 14th October 1881 when 189 fishermen from Eyemouth and the surrounding fishing ports died in a tremendous storm.
Further information can be found at http://business.scotsman.com/seafishingindustry/Black-Friday-fishing-disaster-tributes.3470572.jp

Four Rent Boys in Eyemouth

As it is Martin's birthday this week he decided where we should walk so he selected the cliff walk from Eyemouth to Berwick a distance of 12 miles. Tom and i headed off from Langholm at 7.30am and arrived in plenty of time to meet John and Martin off the train from Edinburgh at Berwick station, but it had been cancelled so we had to wait another 30 minutes before they arrived. We immediately took a taxi to Eyemouth for the start of the walk. On arrival at Eyemouth harbour we asked a local worker if he would take our traditional starting photograph which he readily agreed to do but then made the comment "You will never make any money as male prostitutes". There can be no further comment to that remark. The weather improved and we completed the 12 mile walk with no rain and although the sun never quite got out it was almost perfect walking weather. We arrived back in Berwick about 3.30pm and then had a pint and a bar lunch in a local pub before returning to the station to make our way back to Langholm and Edinburgh. It was an excellent day's walking and the crack was good especially when crossing the Scotland-England border Tom declared his intention to claim Berwick back into Scottish territory.