I’m training for a Tweed swim - very necessary as I smashed my shoulder at the beginning of the year and things are a little slower these days healing. So, this morning dawned and we pushed of for a couple of hours at Lindean (we being me and the dug, no sign of sentience from my partner). And it was freezing - not the water, just the rain and the wind. 90 minutes in and I was happy to be out.
Even with the wind, swallows hunted across the loch.
I pass this ‘house' on a regular basis, although normally in the car - its not a section of road we frequently cycle but cycling over to Jedburgh I stopped yesterday. At a distance it is a wee cottage on the side of a moderately busy road. Get closer and it is a facade - a small barn that has been ‘enhanced’ to make it look a little more interesting.
You might think that training up your pup to run on the roads with you is straightforward. Staying from under your feet, traffic and junction awareness, not running faster than you and showing you up 🤦🏽♀️But in Minto the dug also needs a reasonable reading proficiency and a little kulture.
The rare and intriguing Yarrow Stone in the Scottish Borders. Its inscription, displayed sideways, is early Christian and in Latin; and commemorates two princes named Nudoss and Dumnogenus, who lived and died in the 400s or 500s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/selkirk/yarrowstone/index.html