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My Favourite Photographs of 2020
This has been an amazing and difficult year but to date we have made our way through it despite cancelled trips to California and cancelled holiday cottages. My walks have nearly all been local and I...
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A Beautiful Winters Day
Since New Years day the temperature has hardly been above zero but today was the best day I have had this year to date for walking. It's still tricky underfoot but the sunshine was glorious and the...
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A Cold start to January
Since my last blog on 8th January we have had a spell of dry but cold weather that has enabled me to walk almost every day and on the sunniest day I headed out to The Langholm Moor and the upper Tarras...
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Lockdown January Walks
It has been a very cold January and as we are again in Lockdown I have decided not to even go far out of Langholm for my daily walks. These photographs are a collection of all my walks during the...
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A Walk in Lower Tarras
My morning walk today was from The Maverick Bird Hide to Perterburn and back in Lower Tarras Valley a distance of 4 miles.After much discussion on Facebook we have decided this is a Kestrel...
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A Perfect Winter's Day for Walking
With us being on Lockdown again I have hardly walked anywhere out of town for weeks except for the odd walk near Canonbie so thats the reason for very few posts on my blog. Today however is the perfect...
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Lockdown Photographs in February and early March
It has been a month since I last posted photos on my Blog. In that time I have hardly been anywhere and all I have done is a daily 4 mile walk on average. This is upper Tarras Valley which is one of my...
View ArticleTommy on the Ski Slopes of Sierra Nevada
This is our Grandson Tommy skiing recently in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. He just loves the outdoor life and has become an expert skier as has Eleanor and our youngest grandson Elliot...
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A Walk up The Stennies Water Valley
This was the first time for weeks that Tom and I have walked together on a Wednesday. During Lockdown this year he has made Golf a priority but came to his senses today and joined me on a walk up...
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Arresgill and Westwater Walk
Another Wednesday and we are back into our regular walks. We started at Westwater and walked back along the farm road to the main Langholm to Lockerbie road and for a mile we had little or no traffic...
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Back Walking With David
It seems such a long time since David, Tom and myself last walked together but with restrictions easing slightly we are back doing a regular 4 mile walk. This one started at Rowanburn and involved...
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 Great entertainment in the Graham garden tonight as the first of our baby Blackbirds fledges the nest.
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Up to Arresgill and Back
This was our destination today from a start at Wauchope Schoolhouse. It was a 5.5 mile round trip on mostly forestry roads. This is what used to be the farm at Arresgill but now its all forestry and...
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A Rowanburn Circuit
Tom, David and myself had our fourth walk of the month on another sunny but very cold day. This time we started at Rowanburn for a 4.5 mile walk up to Rowanburnhead and round by the Fairy Loup and...
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A Lazy Sheep
On my way to Bentpath on Thursday to meet up with Mike Tinker for a walk up Stennieswater I was delayed near Burnfoot by these sheep being moved from one field to another. I was happy to wait behind...
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Last of the Summer Wine Walkers Back Together Again
On a bitterly cold day for May this was the first time The Last of the Summer Wine Walkers had been together for almost a year and we selected a walk round the lower part of The Tarras Valley Nature...
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My First Walk at Wigtown
Our journey from Langholm to Wigtown encountered heavy rain until we got to Castle Douglas and then as we got further west the sky cleared and the weather became beautiful. A quick visit to the river...
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A Visit to Glenwhan Gardens
A superb visit today to Glenwhan Gardens near Stranraer and special thanks to Mike Tinker for telling me about them. They are not nearly as popular as Logan Botanical Gardens but they are just as good...
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A Visit to Loch Trool
We have visited Galloway many times for holidays over the years but rarely visited the Lochs and Glens as we liked the coastal areas. This week we decided to visit Glen Trool and Loch Trool which Gaye...
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Two Walks and Two Dogs
I have had two excellent walks this week accompanied by friends and their dogs. The first on Wednesday with David and Tom and David's dog Ruger. Here he is befriended by a large lamb that followed us...
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