Jean's 80th Birthday

On Saturday we celebrated Jean's 80th birthday with a lovely lunch in the Buccleuch Centre followed by a get together with all her friends back at her house.
This photograph is of Jean and her sons Niall and Kenny.

Starlings over Gretna

Ullswater Part 2

John, Tom, and i spent the afternoon on Wednesday completing the 2nd half of the walk round the Eastern side of Lake Ulswater. We took the ferry to Howtown and then walked the 5 miles back to Pooley Bridge. The weather was lovely and the views down the lake overlooking Sharrow Bay Hotel were just magnificent.

Brampton Fellwalkers

On Wednesday Tom and i spent our first day out with the Brampton Fellwalkers. We did a 7 mile fairly difficult walk on Rosgill Moor near Shap. The highest hill on the walk was Scalebarrow Knott where from the top you had a lovely view of Haweswater which was built in the 30s as a reservoir for Manchester.

Langholm Academy Prizegiving - 1963

This photograph was in the E & L today and shows John who was Dux and myself as Rugby Captain and our team won the School Championship.

Trip to Kirkcudbright

Bill has just retired from his job at BFA so i had promised to take him to Kirkcudbright to see his sister on the first day of his retirement.
John & Tom accompanied us as the plan was to have a 5 mile walk after we had dropped Bill at his sisters. The weather was absolutely glorious and we enjoyed a lovely walk along the shore and via Buckland Glen past the Cemetary where we stopped for a short while to admire the view over the estuary and the River Dee.