Hogmanay Dinner at Birkwood with the Weatherstones and Tom. A most enjoyable evening with excellent food and great conversation. Niall & Elspeth head for Australia for a few months on January 5th and then within 2 days of his arrival at their house in Western Australia Niall will head for Salt Lake City on his last major assignment for Rio Tinto at the Kennecott Copper Mine before his retirement at the end of March. Its strange to say but 10 years ago neither of us had ever thought we would travel to Salt Lake City but in that time we have been 7 times to visit our son Fraser who moved there in 2001, Tom, Jean, Niall & Elspeth all visited in 2005 for Fraser & Leslie's wedding and of course Niall has been there probably 20 times in the course of his business. It's a small world. We intend to go out to Western Australia in February 2012 all being well.
A coffee stop where the River Lynne meets the Esk
As has been the custom for several years now we always have a long walk on the last day of the year so Tom, Niall, and I headed for Kirkandrews -on-Esk where we left the car and headed via the river bank to Longtown. The photograph above shows the huge number of ice flows left on the river bank after the flood caused by melting snow had subsided. At Longtown we crossed the bridge and headed along the southern bank of the Esk to where it meets the River Lynne almost at the Metal Bridge near the M74. We then headed for Arthuret Church but a Map reading error by Tom meant we landed at the A7 near Sandysike so had to walk a mile along a busy A7 before we could head for Arthuret and then back to Longtown where we caught the service bus back to Kirkandrews-on Esk to collect the car.
Hogmanay Dinner at Birkwood with the Weatherstones and Tom. A most enjoyable evening with excellent food and great conversation. Niall & Elspeth head for Australia for a few months on January 5th and then within 2 days of his arrival at their house in Western Australia Niall will head for Salt Lake City on his last major assignment for Rio Tinto at the Kennecott Copper Mine before his retirement at the end of March. Its strange to say but 10 years ago neither of us had ever thought we would travel to Salt Lake City but in that time we have been 7 times to visit our son Fraser who moved there in 2001, Tom, Jean, Niall & Elspeth all visited in 2005 for Fraser & Leslie's wedding and of course Niall has been there probably 20 times in the course of his business. It's a small world. We intend to go out to Western Australia in February 2012 all being well.
A coffee stop where the River Lynne meets the Esk
As has been the custom for several years now we always have a long walk on the last day of the year so Tom, Niall, and I headed for Kirkandrews -on-Esk where we left the car and headed via the river bank to Longtown. The photograph above shows the huge number of ice flows left on the river bank after the flood caused by melting snow had subsided. At Longtown we crossed the bridge and headed along the southern bank of the Esk to where it meets the River Lynne almost at the Metal Bridge near the M74. We then headed for Arthuret Church but a Map reading error by Tom meant we landed at the A7 near Sandysike so had to walk a mile along a busy A7 before we could head for Arthuret and then back to Longtown where we caught the service bus back to Kirkandrews-on Esk to collect the car.
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Nice reading about your walk down the Esk. Wasn't like Tom was it?
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