Wanderer
Poetic therapy after fall on Potholm Hill
IT IS now seven months since I fell from grace and ended up near the bottom of Potholm Hill where I was rescued by the ambulance and taken to the Cumberland Infirmary.
Last updated 4 November 2009
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Taking the plunge and phoning 999 from a hill
IT WAS a lovely spring afternoon as I crossed the Potholm bridge and parked below the farm. The hill track took me upwards, past the cottage and followed the cleuch before turning left towards Sorbie Haas.
Last updated 22 April 2009
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Two out of three will have to do after all these years
WINDY Edge lies between Langholm and Copshaw or between Tarras and Liddel if that suits better.
Last updated 1 April 2009
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Lapwings, please come and visit us in plenty this summer
IN SOME years there might be an abundance of certain birds, while the very next year there might be a decided dearth of the same species.
Last updated 25 March 2009
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Foxhunters – on bikes
I seem to have spent a large part of February climbing up Whita or walking across the hill before dropping back down to Langholm.
Last updated 4 March 2009
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I pass only a neglected mausoleum and a feral sheep on my way to the Bloody Bush
IN MY last tale I described my long-term interest in the Bloody Bush and the problems I had in tracing it and how to reach it.
Last updated 18 February 2009
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Good map is a work of art with wealth of information
EVER since I can recall, I have had a profound interest in cartography or maps.
Last updated 11 February 2009
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Bringing the muirs back to life
THE morning was wet and cold but by noon it was dry, cold and misty so I decided to have a longer walk but not to go very far afield.
Last updated 4 February 2009
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After hundreds of years, Bailliehill is still slowly revealing its secrets
MUCH of my knowledge of historic artefacts, remains or larachs that can be found in our dales is derived from pure observation with some conjecture and guesswork.
Last updated 21 January 2009
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The ups and downs of a Debateable Lands castle
IT WAS another glorious morning and we had seen too few of them this year not to notice.
Last updated 22 December 2008
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In the groove for the Industrial Revolution
GREAT and wondrous things have taken place below the High Irvine Moss and Auchenrivock Flow as well as below Hagg Hill and Burian Hill.
Last updated 12 November 2008
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Perfect manners at three months
I PASSED Bombie and a mile or so later between the larachs or at least what was left of two circular forts or settlements to reach the empty and deserted cottage of Calkin lying deep in a hollow hidden by the hills.
Last updated 11 September 2008
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Lost priest now safe at E&L office
I WAS recently reminded of a bird I had not seen for many years and, like most of the rarer small birds, I had last seen a Ring Ousel in the upper muirs of Tarras.
Last updated 6 August 2008
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Exploring the wonders and beauties of Eskdale
DURING the middle of May the weather was very warm, almost to the point of being lethargic, so I decided to walk around the Mill Burn corrie above Henwell Cottage and Potholm Farm.
Last updated 25 June 2008
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Lost in the timelessness of the hills – and then in translation
IT was one of these few perfect days in April.
Last updated 27 April 2008
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Following the tracks of the last wolf shot in Scotland
PERHAPS I do not fully realise it but I have been told that I am no longer in the first flush of youth. I know that I walk at a slower pace and so take a bit longer to cover the miles.
Last updated 2 April 2008
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A kingly name but can we be sure?
SCOTLAND does not lack in its tales of history, mystery and imagination.
Last updated 12 March 2008
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Look before you sit
I HAVE said before that this has been an unusually mild winter but then the winter of 1946-47 was also variable, exactly like this year, until on the 15th or ‘the Ides of March’ winter dropped in on us with a vengeance to become the hardest in memory with 20-feet drifts of snow as the norm.
Last updated 5 March 2008
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Winter weather brings forth every colour of the rainbow
IT has been frequently said this winter that ‘we have had really terrible weather’, or words akin to that.
Last updated 15 February 2008
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Take a trip to see the dipper
ELAINE Anderson, a renowned source of local nature knowledge, keeps me up to date with much of the information I have overlooked.
Last updated 6 December 2007
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