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An Autumn walk from Keswick
It was only Tom and myself available today as the others are either abroad or unavailable so Tom decided we would go a bit further afield and do a walk from last weeks Cumberland News near Keswick. The...
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A Tale of Two Burns
Our Wednesday walk today took us to the Parish of Canonbie and two of its more famous Burns the Byerburn and  the Rowanburn. It was just a 6 mile section of The Canonbie Walk from the Langholm &...
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A Little Bit of the John Muir Way
We were invited to stay for the weekend with John and Sandria in Edinburgh so while the girls went shopping John and I walked 6.5 miles of the John Muir Trail from Portobello to Musselburgh. It was a...
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Tom & David's Birthday Walk in Melrose
This was a combined Birthday Walk for both Tom & David and it was a nice and easy 7 mile walk along the Tweed from Melrose to Abbotsford and then back along country roads to Melrose. We had Coffee...
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Christmas Day and a Boxing Day Walk
Santa brought us a Mermaidand a Star Wars Stormtrooper with a Light SabreA Boxing Day walk with John & TomFinishing up in the Market Place viewing the storm damage to the Town Christmas Tree blown...
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New Years Day Walk
Once again we managed to get up early for the New Years run but of course we only walked it and managed to reduce the course from 8 miles to 6. Its still a good way of starting the new year. Peter and...
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Search for the River Lyne
Todays Wednesday walk took us to Longtown and a walk along the Esk to the River Lyne or at least that was our plan. The first couple of miles were easy along the bank of the Esk but then things started...
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Bitterly Cold in Copshaw
Its amazing how quickly each Wednesday walk comes round. This week we are off to Newcastleton to do a 5.5 mile walk along the old Waverley Railway Line and to cross this new Whithaugh Bridge for the...
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A Day in Hawick is not a day Wasted
They say in Hawick that a day out of Hawick is a day wasted so we decided to spend a day in Hawick to see if that was true. It was dry and reasonably mild so we headed out from The Teviotdale Leisure...
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Checking out our Holiday Cottage in Colvend
There was only 2 of us left to go walking today as David & Tom are in Barbados, Niall is still in Australia, and Peter is in Switzerland so John and I decided to go and check out our holiday rental...
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Meggat Water and Greensykes Bothy
We have walked this route several times over the years mainly to see what progress has been made with the Mountain Bothy at Greensykes. We left the car at Glendinning and walked up the Meggat Valley...
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Another Grand Walk in Hawick - Vertish Hill and Williestruther Loch
This weeks Wednesday walk took us back to Hawick to do the 5 mile Vertish Hill and Williestruther Loch walk from the excellent booklet Paths around Hawick. From the car park we headed up the Howegate...
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Tom's Gone Missing
We had hoped that Tom would be available for todays walk as it is a month since he last walked with us due to his holiday in Barbados but he had accepted a golf invitation from a friend who would not...
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A Visit to Washington Wetlands Centre
When I visited the Moorland Bird Hide to top up the feeders last week there was a guy had travelled all the way from Durham to photograph Siskins. I asked him the best place to watch birds in the north...
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A Visit to Plessey Woods
Plessey Woods are about a 20 minute drive north from Fiona's house in Newcastle. There are miles of trails and lots of fun things hidden in the woods. This is a drum kit that Hannah is playing on.A...
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Langholm's Oldest Resident
Nan Irving is 96 today and is now Langholm's oldest resident. She is photographed here with son John and Grandchildren Nicola-Jane and Craig just before they head off to the Eskdale for afternoon tea....
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Out of the World and into Ae
Or walking day commenced with Coffee and Biscuits at the home of Hilary & Les Jack in the village of Ae. Just 3 weeks ago they were guests for the day of Tom, David & Alix in Barbados so we...
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Talking our Way Round Talkin
We have been a few times to Talkin Tarn recently but it is such a nice place to walk so we found ourselves there again today. Instead of starting and finishing in Brampton this time we started at the...
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The Canonbie Umbrella Walk Route
Tom choose todays walk at Canonbie because he wanted to check the route for the Rotary Umbrella Walk on 25th March. We were delighted to meet John Packer as we walked through Canonbie and he took this...
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Sandria's Birthday Walk in Eddleston
Sandria chose the village of Eddleston near Peebles for the start of her Birthday Walk. The walk was due to be 7 miles and the weather was supposed to be dry until about 1.00pm but we soon encountered...
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