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Tweedlove – biggest and best
IN LESS than three years, TweedLove has become the biggest bike festival with the widest range of cycling events in the UK.
Hill skills
GLENTRESS’ skills area has been upgraded to help beginners and intermediate mountain bikers.
Opened my eggbox to find a shark
As I write, there is a rumour that warmer weather is on the way ... and not before time. I can hardly remember such a prolonged period of cold easterly winds.
Go green in biodiversity week
THE BORDERS continues to hold many events as part of Scottish Biodiversity Week.
‘Admirable receipts of cookery’ from the friars
“With the exception of the Lincolnshire fens, there are no greater areas of good land in Britain than can be found in the Merse, the Lothians, the East of Fife, the Vale of Strathmore and the Howe of the Mearns,” writes F Marian McNeill in The Scots Kitchen.
Borders Book Festival
Festival books up men of science
IT does not take a scientist to work out that there is less than a month to go until the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival kicks off once again.
Book group finds a Dickens of a good read
Dickens’ last complete novel gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society.
If at first you don’t succeed…
If the event you want to go to is sold out, Paula Ogilvie co-ordinator of the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival says, it may be possible to buy returns or go on a waiting list. Enquiry at the box office
Lining up pioneers of the great outdoors
lAST year, Scots adventurer Mark Beaumont was one of the star turns at the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival, thrilling his Melrose audience with an account of how, in 2010, he had cycled from Alaska to Argentina for a BBC television series.
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Cademuir Forest near Peebles is a relatively small Forestry Commission plantation predominantly of Sitka spruce and larch. I was surveying a walk there in early March. When the needles are off the larch the views over to Hundleshope Heights are excellent. The east side of the hill is very steep, accentuating the high rise of ground on the other side of the valley.
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An extra visual treat for book festival-goers
A COLLECTION of paintings which includes works by John Byrne and Elizabeth Blackadder, as well as three members of the same family, is set to arrive in Melrose next month.
Sing Brahms
THE Melrose Music Society is inviting singers to a Come and Sing of Brahms’ magnificent Requiem in Melrose Parish Church this Saturday.
Trouble at the palace
CHILDREN’S theatre company Wee Stories launches a tour of the south of Scotland next month with its production The Sun, The Moon and a Boy Called River.
Spring showing
SELKIRK’S Wasps Studios hosts its spring exhibition, with 12 artists’ work on show from Friday to Sunday in the former textile mill.
Outdoors
Langholm warms to Cornet Andrew
AN OUTBREAK of Common Riding fever hit Langholm on Friday night when the public turned out in force to vote for this year’s Cornet, and enjoy the town and pipe band perambulating the streets, writes John Smith.
Pleasures in reserve
THE SCOTTISH Wildlife Trust’s (SWT) Borders reserves are holding their first open day at the end of the month.
Palm trees left out in Arran’s cold
I’m just back from an enjoyable week on Arran and I can confirm that it was no warmer over there! It was weird photographing the island’s many palm trees with a backdrop of fresh snow on Goat Fell.
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I met Dad and his friend Stewart at a layby in the charmingly named Elvanfoot, just at junction 14 off the M74. Elvan means very white in Brythonic (al-gwyn), usually referring to a bright stream in place names. While I waited on their arrival, I had the lucky chance to stand and watch a mistle thrush feeding. It pecked about in the field adjacent to me, the ground around a low wooden trough disturbed by sheep’s hooves.
Bio-week offers a diversity of events
MORE than 20 events are taking place in the Borders to celebrate Scottish Biodiversity Week which starts on Saturday.
Food and Drink
Two trainees go over to dark side with Cocoa Black
Cocoa Black in Peebles is doing its bit to promote young local talent and career opportunities in the lucrative foodie market which is now well established in the Borders.
Rugby stars score at school with food message
CAPITAL rugby stars visited Selkirk High School to give pupils a lesson in healthy eating.
Norwegian food – isn’t it good for Selkirk
SELKIRK will take on a Norwegian flavour for three days next week
Gone but not forgotten: clods, todgies and nackets
When Robert Burns described Scotland as “the land o’ cakes”, our national bard did not mean sweet fancies, but the flat, unleavened bannock or oatcake, baked on a girdle or bakestone.
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Weather for Galashiels
Thursday 24 May 2012
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Cloudy
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