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Saratoga High School
We took Eleanor to Saratoga High School tonight for her Soccer Practice. Saratoga is the same size as Dumfries but the sporting facilities at the school are fantastic. An Athletics Stadium, 12 Tennis...
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Saratoga Gardens
My faithful companion for three weeks.Just some of the many lovely gardens that Sammy and I pass each morning on our Saratoga walk. They all have sprinklers or drip feed irrigation systems or they just...
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A busy day of Soccer
I started the day with a walk with Sammy who seemed to sense it was my last full day with him and he followed me everywhere.Then the Graham grandchildren got ready for their 3 matches at 3 different...
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Traditional Family Photo of the Graham Clan
Whenever we come to USA to visit Fraser and his family we always take a family photo on the day we depart home. The kids are growing up so fast and we were very sad at leaving them. This has been our...
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Little and large Aircraft
Fraser and Gaye and I left San Francisco airport within a few hours of each other on Sunday evening and early Monday morning. This is the General Motors Gulfstream which he flew to Detroit on early...
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Last of the Summer Wine Walkers at Cally Palace
Our Walking weekend at Cally Palace Hotel in Gatehouse of Fleet. We all arrived on Friday about lunch time and immediately set out to do a 4 mile walk in the grounds of Cally Estate, while 4 of the...
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Drumburgh Walk with Mike and Charlie
Our walk today started in Drumburgh on the Cumbria Solway coast. The first half of the walk followed the Hadrians Wall Path along the Vallum. It is about 6 weeks since Mike, Charlie, and I had walked...
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Two Eskdalemuir Walks in Two Days
On Wednesday Tom, Niall, and myself did a 4 mile circular walk at Castle O’er. We followed the forestry road and then returned along the very quiet B Road that is so potholed now that very few people...
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A Welsh Get Together at Kippford
 On Wednesday we travelled to Barend Holiday Chalets to meet up with Doreen and Norman Southwell our friends from South Wales. They book a chalet there almost every year, but this may be the last time...
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Gaye's 80th Birthday Treat in Newcastle (4 days early)
Newcastle City Centre on Saturday morning near the Theatre Royal. Very few people about as there was a huge police presence due to the impending problems that have been occurring in cities over the...
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A Visit to Gosforth Nature Reserve
 On Sunday morning Mario took me to Gosforth Nature Reserve. This is a members reserve and the fees are £3 per month with access through coded gates. There are several bird hides on the reserve and it...
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A Puppy Adventure
After a week in Wales the two of them are now inseparable. A first meeting with FinlayAll set for the train journey and he was well behaved most of the time.It's 10 weeks old and very cuteIt is...
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Peter's Seat on the Castleholm
When our friend Peter Bart-Smith died in April we were about to go for a month to California to visit Fraser and his family and that meant we would miss his funeral. I was quite upset at that as Peter...
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A Day Out To Macduff and Portsoy
I took the Stagecoach Double Decker bus from Newmacher to Macduff and Portsoy today. It’s the best way to travel through rural Aberdeenshire seated upstairs at the front of the bus. There are still...
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A Visit to Footdee know as Fittie in Aberdeen
 This village was mentioned as long ago as the 14th century but most of the houses were built in 1808-09. It is sandwiched between the busy harbour and the beach on a spit of land. I walked to it from...
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A Day at The Benty Show
On Saturday we had a day out at Benty Show. Gaye had 6 entries in the Handicrafts and Plant sections.This was her best entry and it got a First in a class if 9 entries.Another First for this...
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A Long Awaited Visit to Kippford and Rockcliffe
A long time ago I promised I would take our friends Mark & Leila Hallam to my favourite walk in Dumfries & Galloway along the shore from Kippford to Rockcliffe so today I managed to keep my...
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Boy's Day out at Melrose
A few weeks ago John and I planned a day out at Melrose and a walk on the river Tweed. That day arrived and what a glorious day it was. Tom and I met Martin, John, and Ken at Tweedbank Station on the...
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Back Walking Again
This was my first Wednesday walk for over a month as a bout of Achilles Tendonitis has had me confined to just very short walks for over a month. Today with Tom I walked a 4 mile route down the Esk at...
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Meeting John at Lockerbie
On Wednesday Tom and I met up with John at Lockerbie Station for a last minute organised walk on Eskrigg Nature Reserve. It had been planned as an exchange of Langholm calendars for John. We used to...
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