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Remembering early days in Rowanburn
Only Tom and I for our Wednesday walk today so we set out to walk from Canonbie church to the Meeting of the Waters and then along the old railway line to Rowanburn. I lived in Rowanburn until I was 10...
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A Walk Through Westerhall
As I was unable to walk yesterday because Gaye had a hospital appointment in Edinburgh, John , Tom, and myself headed up to Bentpath this morning for a short walk through Westerhall Estate. John had to...
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A Walk With the Caerlaverock Geese
This is the time of the year when a visit to Caerlaverock is a must as there are so many Geese wintering there. We were last over there a couple of years ago. The weather was perfect today, although in...
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Welcome to our new Grandson Elliot
Its been a great week for the Graham family with the arrival of Elliot Foster Graham in San Jose, California on Monday evening UK time. Our Daughter-in-Law Leslie is doing fine and baby Elliot is just...
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Brampton to Talkin Tarn and back.
Todays Wednesday Walk was Tom's choice and came from last weeks Cumberland News. The start was at the Moot Hall in Brampton and it took us along an old disused railway line towards Talkin Tarn and...
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Birthday Walk Cancelled & Christmas Jumpers
We had planned a Birthday Walk for David & Tom on Thursday with a walk round a Reservoir near Peebles followed by lunch at Kailzie Gardens but the weather forecast for tomorrow in the Borders is...
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Tom's Birthday Walk in Copshaw
After last weeks cancelled joint Birthday Walk for Tom & David we managed to fit in a Birthday walk for Tom on his actual 72nd Birthday today. We did a 7 mile walk at Copshaw Holm and were lucky...
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Happy New Year
It has been such a wet day for the first day of 2015 that I was unable to take any photographs of our New Years Day Whisky Run walk. Me, Tom, Peter, Niall, David and Elspeth set of from no 63 at 9.00am...
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A Winter Walk in Lauder
Todays walk nearly did not happen. We decided a week ago to meet up in Lauder to do this walk called the Blackchester Fort Circuit but when we looked at the weather last night John reported over 2...
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Caerlaverock Reserve and Castle with Peter
After the enjoyable walk last week with 5 of us we were down to just 2 this week. As Peter was in USA when we visited Caerlaverock Castle and the Solway Merses a few weeks ago I asked if he would like...
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Arrived in California
On Thursday we left Langholm in deep snow and thanks to our good friends Peter & Elizabeth Bart-Smith arrived safely in Newcastle. Peters driving was exemplary so we thank him for this. We left...
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Settling in to life in California
Day 3 of our Californian experience and we seem to be getting into a routine. I started the day by taking Eleanor and her friend Mallory to school at 7.45 for an 8.00am start. They were very well...
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Dinner at Mac Cafe
Having looked forward to this for almost 2 years I was worried I might be disappointed but it was everything I had imagined and more. It was very busy and as we did not know all the best food at the...
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Soccer Coaching with Thomas
Last night Thomas had a 45 minute coaching session and he loved it. From our experience in Utah and now California the USA have certainly got their act together with Soccer for children. Maybe in the...
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Two Museums in the Rain
The weather this weekend has been awful and there has been more rain here this weekend than the total of the last few months. It is however very welcome and the reservoirs will fill up a little. We...
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A Walk at Blackberry Farm in Cupertino
Elliot is 12 weeks old today and celebrated by having a bathAfter my morning walk to take Eleanor and Mallory to school we headed off to Blackberry Farm in Cupertino where we had a lovely walk with...
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A Mac Cafe Breakfast and a Los Gatos Walk
Our morning started with another visit to Apple Inc. at Infinite Loop so we could take advantage of the Mac Cafe's fantastic breakfasts. The cafe is both indoors and outdoors and the photo shows the...
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A Visit to the Hakone Japanese Gardens in Saratoga
Thomas & Eleanor love playing among the BambooGaye singing an extract from the Mikado in the garden and Thomas finds this fascinating.The Bamboo gets taller and tallerAnd in the pond there are...
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Lands End and Golden Gate Bridge
Today was a very busy day with the morning spent in running children to school and pre school. It also had me driving in California on my own for the first time. An interesting experience and quite...
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Valentines Day on the Beach
It was decided that we should spend Valentines Day on the beach at Capitola which is on Monterey Bay. It meant an early start as this is a USA holiday weekend and it would be very busy. We were there...
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