A dreich mist over the Welsh slate mountains this morning but we’ve had fun exploring Blaenau’s park, a miniature fun land, and narrow gauge steam engines! 🚂⛳️⛰️

7 hours after we left sunny Barrmill we arrived in soaking wet Blaenau. Can’t see a thing for the rain other than this unique, eh, undertaker’s business! Chippy tea and an early-ish night! 🥃😴

Ciara Oliver, daughter of the great Greig Oliver, is participating in the 2024 Great Limerick Run.

She is fundraising for the Children’s Grief Centre, an invaluable resource for children who need extra support at a difficult time in their lives.

Donate if you can ⤵️

#SUAF 🔴

Irvine for haircuts and supplies ahead of tomorrow’s roadtrip.

Quite probably one of the worst decisions Hawick RFC has ever made, to not renew these contracts. Only time will tell.

Applications are OPEN! We are looking for passionate young people (ages 16-21) to join our Young Peoples Advisory Board.

If you have experience of foster care or are the child of a foster carer, we want to hear from you!
Email Zoe for an info pack ([email protected])

Another productive day balancing parental duties with clearing out claes for charity. Managed to even buy myself some new clobber for the first time in almost three years. It did come at the cost of sunburn, though, which I somehow succumbed to in-between gale force winds & hail!

#StormKathleen can’t stop this fam from enjoying a day out to Strathaven (or ice cream)! 🚂🦆🍦

Absolutely scunnered to learn of the death of Stuart Dalgleish, having just messaged each other during the week about his partner's Sanquhar & Crichton relatives.

Absolutely bonkers. 57 is no age at all. Gutted for Maaike, his family & friends.

A sound guy with good principles.

My latest article continues the stories of the Scottish Border Romanichal Travellers, from the Battle o' Hawick Brig to the royal Faa-mily in Kirk Yetholm.

Read online via The Hawick Paper (£1.20 sub) at goo.gl/d9YFC4, or on the app.

If David Cameron wants to be remembered for anything other than enabling genocide then he must do everything in his power to stop the killing.

That means an immediate end to arms sales to Israel.

The DWP will spend £849,475 a year on 25 covert officers to sniff out benefit fraud. That's enough to pay 116 people the standard rate of UC for a year.

What about the 42 BILLION a year in unclaimed tax?

Stop blaming those with less & start with those stealing the most

Blaenau Ffestiniog booked for the second week of the holidays (it's pronounced blai • nai • feh • sti • nyog, apparently).

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Former St Columba's RC HS, Dunfermline troops - is there any word on an open day or anything similar ahead of the move to the new campus this year? Would love a wee wander round before it closes. I see my old maths teacher is the current rector!

A simple Easter outing to the skatepark

My latest article outlines the history of the Scottish Border Romanichal, 'traivellin fowk' who first came to the region in the early 16th century.

Read online via The Hawick Paper (£1.20 sub) at goo.gl/d9YFC4, or on the app.

An Easter adventure with the lads Finlaystone Country Estate 🏰🪷🗺️

What a lovely day it’s been, perfect antidote to poor physical and mental health; sunshine, quality time with Jaime and the boys, copious amounts of chocolate.

Can finally see the end of this bastarding 42-day cough, with energy levels returning, too, following a busy week.