Whitmuir Hall Selkirk
Whitmuir Selkirk, Borders, Scotland, TD7 4PZ, United Kingdom
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Welcome to my world
The quiet of the morning of Saturday 14th May is broken by a wood pigeon. He's not far off because he's really quite loud. He's deep and fruity. The Harry Secombe of the bird world. Flicking one eye open briefly I can see that it's only quarter past eight so I can stay in bed for a bit before I start to think I should be doing something else. Anyway Sam is lying on me so I ...
We have come to view the salmon
Who could resist a sign saying "Salmon Viewing Centre". Not me. In any case HVM had an encounter with some salmon in Berwick [ISA 12.9] and we're not planning to include this on our route as it's kind of in England.
So we trotted along the banks of the Tweed to a big weir with a special channel in the middle of it called a 'fish ladder' where each step is a pool of water slightly higher than the last allowing the salmon to leap from pool to pool in order to get ...
Spent the day in Selkirk
This morning we went to Selkirk to watch Adele play field hockey. The teams are arranged in school groups (playing other schools) and it appears they only exist with the goodwill of school teachers who are willing to coach the team. Afterwards it was on the Bus (the transit van) for a coffee etc at Baxters...where Selkirk glass used to be. Mackenzie was happy to ...
Disaster strikes!...
... something that Miffy and I decided to call a wine cellar. It had lots and lots of square holes, just the thing to store wine, obviously. Nope. It was a dovecote. Silly us. Not much further now. Downhill a little bit and there it was - Selkirk! We leapt with joy. John made five bottles of Carlsberg magically appear from his bag. For the first time I felt like a Formula 1 driver when we shook them and sprayed it everywhere. On our way we passed a magnificent building called ...
A Travel Lodge Of All Things
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