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The Shortest Day
We are fast approaching the winter solstice which is the shortest day or the longest night of the year depending on how you think of it. So from Wednesday 21st December the days will start to get longer by approximately 2 minutes and 7 seconds every day! Astronomical winter begins on this day and continues…
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Jack Frost, Mischief Maker
The mischievous Jack Frost has been out creating his magic while we have slept. Covering trees and other objects with white feathery ice crystals, hoar frost, creating a surreal landscape. The name is derived from the Old English, har, meaning white or grey with age as the frost looks like white hairs. And now the…
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Winter Wonderland
The first snows of winter have now arrived in the Scottish Borders covering the landscape in a blanket of white. This gives us a great opportunity to wrap up warm, head out and immerse ourselves in the countryside which now looks so different from what we are used to seeing. It can make walking hard…
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Last Posting Dates for Christmas
Today is the last day for 2nd Class postage and Friday for 1st Class. From today until Christmas Eve we will be sending all our orders out 1st Class! Be aware that the planned strikes by Royal Mail will affect delivery times.
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Walking about
We went walking most weeks and discovered areas that we had never been to before that were accessible from our respective homes. This then developed into an embryonic idea of walks from the local stations on the newly opened Borders Railway. There was a lot of time spent pondering over OS maps, drinking tea and…
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Walking and mental health
Going out for a walk is really a process of going into ourselves. When done alone walking allows us to spend time in our own company away from daily distractions where we re-engage with something essential and vital to who we are. Only the present is ever real, and it is the present that takes…
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An Introduction to Midlothian and The Borders…
Trains connect people to towns and cities, but they also connect us to places unknown and unvisited. New train services can open up and reveal those parts of a country often bypassed and unexplored by the motorist. So it is with the Borders Railway. Opened in 2015, its success has exceeded expectations with passenger numbers…
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A Few Tales…
Deciding which routes to include in a book like this is a process of trial and error. We relied on OS maps, online searches and other walking guides to help orientate us and to allow us to work out possible routes. What we quickly learnt however was that there is no substitute for feet on…
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Review: Border Telegraph
This review was originally published in the Border Telegraph in November 2020 TWO friends have written a book about their favourite walks around the three Borders railway stations. Galashiels residents Brian Gould and Forbes Shepherd have been walking together in the Borders for more than 20 years and were “keen” to pass on some of their…
