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Walking to Repentance
It was Niall who selected a walk for this Wednesday and he took us to Hoddom Castle for a 4.5 mile walk along the river Annan and through the Hoddom Castle estate. No Tom this week because he is now in...
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A Visit to The Castle Craig's
In all my years living in Langholm I have always stood on the Kirk Wynd to watch the horses head up the hill on Castle Craig's Day so today I decided to do something different and walked up to The...
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Weekend at Haven Holiday Village in The South Lakes
We left on Common Riding afternoon for a holiday village near Grange over Sands in the South Lakes with Fiona and Hannah & Leo. This was an excellent venue with plenty to do for the kids. These are...
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Crossing from Tarras to Ewes Valleys
After a 2 week break we are back walking again but with reduced numbers. Tom is recuperating from his operation and Niall is away on holiday. It was a 2 car day with my my car being left at Ewes Hall...
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Clerkhill to Raeburnside
We started early today as rain is forecast for the afternoon. The starting point was Eskdalemuir Kirk and here are Peter & John inspecting a memorial to a former minister. The first part of the...
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Round Potholm On My Own
As everybody else is either on holiday or away it was a case of walking on my own today so I decided to look at some of the work being done on Langholm Walks network by Ranger Ross Gemmill. The steps...
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The Shawl at Leyburn in Wensleydale
It's our second day in Reeth and Bob is taking me this morning on a 6 mile walk called The Leyburn Shawl. It starts at Leyburn and heads up Wensleydale on a limestone escarpment called the Shawl and...
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Hannah and the Dogs
Our Granddaughter Hannah loves dogs but unfortunately her brother Leo is very frightened of them so when an opportunity came up yesterday for a walk with David's dogs Bowman and Ruger she jumped at the...
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Walking The Queensferry Crossing
We have been very lucky first of all winning a place in the 50,000 people selected to walk The Queensferry Crossing this weekend out of 250,000 applications and secondly in being allocated today with...
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A Walk Across Edinburgh for John's 70th Birthday Walk
This was quite a logistical exercise to get everybody to the start at John's house near The Merchants Golf Course in Edinburgh but it worked perfectly. The plan was to walk approx. 8.5 miles across...
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70s Reunion
Everybody on this photo was born in 1947 and went to Langholm Academy. This was our first ever school reunion which was held in The Buccleuch Centre on Thursday 7th September 2017. It was organised by...
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Heading East to Wilton Park Hawick
When planning a nice easy walk to suite Tom we originally thought Eskdalemuir from the Hub to Samye Ling and back but the weather forecast was terrible so we headed east to Hawick and a walk round...
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A Late Birthday Break in the Lake District
I had been given a Hotel voucher for my 70th Birthday in May from our friends Niall & Elspeth so we finally decided on a short break of 2 nights Dinner Bed & Breakfast in the Briery Wood...
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A Gentle Walk in Eskdalemuir
This was another short walk to help Tom get back to fitness after his operation. He is progressing well and we will soon up the mileage to about 5 miles but fairly easy ones. This weeks walk started at...
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Downhill All The Way
In our efforts to get Tom back to fitness this weeks Wednesday walk would be just under 5 miles and the longest yet for Tom. We did the 2 car trick and left Peter's car at Hollows and took mine to the...
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A Rainy Day Walk
Our walk had been arranged for 10.30am but was delayed until 1.30pm as the forecast said it would stop raining by then. Â It was wrong and it kept on raining right up to 2.30pm and then it stopped and...
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A Trio of Baby Barn Owls
Last Friday Alix Stevenson and I were invited by Cat Barlow and Rick Taylor to see them ringing a nest of Barn Owls at Broomholmshiels. This was the second clutch of the season as its been a high Vole...
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Gavin and Peter's Birthday Walk
A combined Birthday Walk for Peter and myself with just John and Sandria managing to come down from Edinburgh. Peter collected them from Carlisle Station and the rest of us met them at Armathwaite to...
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Walking the River Caldew from Dalston to Carlisle
The train that took us from Carlisle to Dalston. It was a beautiful day for our walk. Within 2 minutes of buying his train ticket Peter had lost his but the Ticket Inspector was very nice about it and...
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Gardens and Donkeys at Westwater
Tom and I have walked the valley at Westwater 3 times in the last 6 years but Peter has never done it so we headed there today. We soon met Mrs. Clapperton from Westwater who delighted in showing us...
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