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Week 14 and a Visit to Winterhope and The Meggat Valley
Another week of fairly good weather. My week started with a 5 mile walk on the Old Drove Road from Old Irvine to The Ker Wood and back. It was a lovely walk with lots to see and hear. My new camera is...
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Almost 4 Months of Lockdown and a Heatwave and a Flood
Its been a week of two weather halves with the first half of the week glorious weather and high temperatures and the second half of the week loads of rain culminating in floods on Sunday. This was my...
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July Arrives and Brings the Bad Weather
Last weekends weather was so bad and it continued on the Monday so the furthest I got for a walk was up to the Quarry on the Copshaw road to see how the Tadpoles and Newts were doing in the last...
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Back Walking With The Last of the Summer Winers
I started my week with a trip up to Westerhall Estate as its my favourite place to go when I feel I need a bit of a boost. We were still waiting for Nicola Sturgeon to allow this area of D & G to...
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A Wet Summer Fortnight
Since my last blog two weeks ago the weather has been pretty awful and I have just done local walks in the rain with maybe a couple of long ones on the few decent days. This was on Monday 20th July...
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Lockdown Common Riding 2020 and its all over by 6.30am
For a week there has been rumours that there was something going to happen very early on Common Riding morning despite the fact that the 2020 Common Riding has been cancelled. The Common Riding...
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Inspecting The Meikledale Walk
Mike Tinker and I set out today to inspect The Meikledale Walk which is No 14 in The Langholm Walks Booklet. There has been a lot of Forestry work in this area since the land was given up as a farm and...
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Hen Harrier Day on Langholm Moor
Celebrating National Hen Harrier Day Alison with her splendid T Shirt.Getting our Banner readyA splendid cake with a Hen Harrier on it made by Alison Cutting the CakeThe Group celebrating Hen Harrier Day
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A Walk Round Castle Loch with the Glovers & Tom
Tom and I headed our separate ways to Lochmaben yesterday to meet John and Marion Glover for a walk round Castle Loch. It was only 4 miles but the temperature was 27c and humidity 98% so we took out...
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A Walk to Timpendean Tower near Jedburgh
We are gradually getting back to fairly regular walks with The Last of the Summer Wine Walkers and this month we headed to Jedburgh for a nice 6 mile walk to Timpendean Tower in the rolling border...
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The Chapel Hill Walk at Roberton
The walk today started at Roberton and just near the start is this Eco House which was featured on Grand Designs several years ago. I am told it has changed hands a couple of times since then. My guide...
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A visit to Logan Botanical Gardens
On Sunday we visited these gardens in beautiful weather. It’s a fabulous place and it was so warm we had to sit in the shade several times, but that was no hardship as there was loads of beautiful...
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A Grand Week in Galloway
My morning walk followed this Green Lane and its the best place I have ever seen for brambles with both sides of the lane for half a mile just full of Bramble bushes.This is Ailsa Craig just out of...
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A Walk at Westwater
It has been a while since we had a Last of the Summer Wine Walk so today we headed to Westwater to do a circuit of the valley that is now a forest instead of a sheep farm. The three of us Peter, Tom...
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Langholm Walks Group Visit Greensyke Bothy
On our Warbla Walk last week I was telling Mike and Charlie about The Bothy at Greensykes. Neither of them had been there since it was converted into a Bothy. It's one of my favourite walks so we...
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The End of The Fairy Loup Waterfall
I got a call yesterday from The E & L Advertiser. Somebody had phoned them to say that the Fairy Loup Waterfall had disappeared and would I go along and take some photographs. This is a photo of...
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The Cushets and Potholm
Tom and I are back walking regularly on a Wednesday and we keep socially distanced which happily reduces the number of arguments we have. Today we chose the 6.5 mile route round Potholm via The Cushets...
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An Eskdalemuir Walk and a new Shooting Range
Today's walk with Mike and Charlie was up in Eskdalemuir and took us up the Clerkhill Burn valley and up Wisp Hill. It was 7 years since I was last up this route and there has been a few changes since...
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David's Birthday Walk at Westerhall
It is a while since David has been able to walk with us on a Wednesday but it has been his 79th Birthday last weekend so he was delighted to walk with us today through Westerhall Estate and back by the...
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The Dykecroft Circular with Mike & Charlie
For some time now Mike and myself and occasionally Charlie have been walking every Thursday. This week we all headed separately to Newcastleton to do the Dykecroft Circular Walk which is about 7 miles....
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