Little Jottings
Crumbs – what a toast!
IF GREGOR Fisher were still in town and he’d attended the British Legion’s Cornet’s night last Friday, I’m sure he’d have nabbed David McVittie (big Deev) as his script writer.
Last updated 28 July 2010
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Moved by their beauty
BEFORE I went on Cat Barlow’s moths hunt on Saturday morning, I was unaware that there were more than 2,000 different moth species recorded in the British Isles.
Last updated 21 July 2010
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Bizarre? Whatever next!
IT’S frightening the way the Common Riding creeps up on you. One minute it seems weeks away, the next it’s the Benty ride-out and the start of our celebrations.
Last updated 14 July 2010
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Scrap these useless laws
HOW good it is to hear the toon clock ‘chopping’ again after several weeks of silence.
Last updated 8 July 2010
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At least Scotland won...
EVERY time our walking group has been out this past month someone has remarked on the profusion of wildflowers this year. We’ve never seen so many.
Last updated 30 June 2010
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Who’d lay an egg in thin air?
I’VE been asked several times whether I’d still not heard the cuckoo and I was delighted to say I had. The first was near the Rashiel and another time I heard the call near the Becks. I’ve learned that cuckoo numbers have fallen by one third over the past 11 years.
Last updated 24 June 2010
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Urgent call for peace and quiet
WHAT has happened to my private space? I can’t walk along a pavement without having to jump to one side to avoid someone with head bent over a mobile phone or busy texting a message and not bothering to watch where they are going.
Last updated 16 June 2010
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We must keep our clubs alive
WHEN you retire from a lifetime’s work, you’re looking forward to a time of relaxation, plenty of time to do what you want for a change.
Last updated 9 June 2010
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A danner roon disappointing
I HAD a danner roon the park last Sunday after someone remarked to me about the neglected state of some areas.
Last updated 2 June 2010
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Cast ne’er a clout ere May is oot!
I HEARD a comment the other day: “Scotland nowadays doesn’t have a summer and a winter.It has spells of summer and winter”.
Last updated 26 May 2010
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Will it be a soak or just a splash?
JOHNNY Cash may have been writing about Ireland when he penned the words to that seminal Irish song 40 Shades of Green but looking around Langholm at this moment in time, I can see “the midlands and the moorlands with their 40 shades of green”.
Last updated 19 May 2010
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Our election will have a winner
AT A cost of £42m and excessive hype we end up with a no-win situation. I’m writing, of course, about the general election.
Last updated 12 May 2010
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Few spoil area for caring majority
A BIG thank you to the volunteers who helped keep Langholm bonnie by joining the annual spring clean a week past Sunday.
Last updated 6 May 2010
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Vote for laughs
EVERY time I turn on the TV these days it’s to listen to politicians, each one trying to outmanoeuvre the other.
Last updated 29 April 2010
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The wonder of our moorland
THERE is no more fitting tribute to our moorland than the words of Hugh MacDiarmid, now to be seen on an information board at the car park at Whita Yett.
Last updated 21 April 2010
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Bide here if it’s beauty you need
“IF SCENIC beauty had been all I sought, I never need have left the Muckle Toon”.
Last updated 15 April 2010
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Salmon's leap is too far to be true
I KNOW that salmon have to make mighty leaps as they make their way up rivers to reach their spawning grounds.
Last updated 8 April 2010
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Feel the force of the weather
WHAT a pity there hadn’t been more publicity so more people could have listened to a radio broadcast last week about Eskdalemuir.
Last updated 31 March 2010
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Words of hope for Afghanistan
EACH year Burns clubs all over the country from Aberdeen in the north to London and Harrow in the south exchange greetings cards.
Last updated 24 March 2010
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Big prices for wee brothers
THE familiar face of one of the four Knights of Eskdale looked out from the pages of a national newspaper last Friday.
Last updated 17 March 2010
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