Eyemouth harbour
#photography #Eyemouth #Berwickshire #harbour #fishing #GoldenHour

Another favourite image from my 30+ year photographic career. Continuing with UK landscape, this is looking North along the coast from St Abb's Head in Berwickshire, Scotland.
#photography #landscape #coast #StAbbsHead #Berwickshire #Scotland #cliffs #sstrata

Greenlaw Moor, #Berwickshire #StandingStoneSunday

Berwickshire High School has a remarkable music department. Last term was a brilliant production of Chicago, followed 2 weeks later with a Christmas concert. This Burns concert is a new venture and will feature a wide range of soloists and ensembles from across the school. They always present a good show with impressive young talent to the extent that locals with no connection with the school are also regularly in the audience.

#Berwickshire #LiveMusic #BerwickshireHighSchool #BurnsNight

Looking forward to tomorrow for the first reading of two brand new plays that Duns Players hope to perform at Duns Playfest in May. One is a Wilson's tale, the other a local reworking of Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milkwood'.

#NewWriting #CommunityTheatre #DunsPlayers #DunsPlayfest #Berwickshire #Theatre

Blogging about my first find in the Scottish Privy Council Records Database: A Berwickshire ancestor imprisoned for refusing to take the oath of allegiance in 1692 https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/a-berwickshire-ancestor-imprisoned-for-refusing-to-take-the-oath-of-allegiance-in-1692/ #ScottishHistory #History #Scotland #OathOfAllegiance #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury #Jacobite #Berwickshire #ScottishBorders #Edinburgh #ScottishPrivyCouncilRecords #ScottishPrivyCouncil

So at the dress rehearsal this evening the police turned up after a report of "something funny going on at the hall"... Well Arsenic and Old Lace is very funny. We open tomorrow for 4 nights only!

#CommunityTheatre #DunsPlayers #Duns #Berwickshire

Very busy weekend with final prep for Arsenic and Old Lace opening on Wednesday. All day set building yesterday, all day run throughs today. Tech tomorrow, dress on Tuesday.
#DunsPlayers #Berwickshire #communityTheatre #comedy

COMING UP | Duns Players https://www.dunsplayers.org/coming-up

Found Melrose kirk session minutes at ScotlandsPeople include lists of schoolmasters 1768-1854 parish by parish in Presbytery of Chirnside. Whole bunch of Berwickshire places! Melrose isn't even in Berwickshire 😜 Likely paper records muddling in Scottish Record Office / National Records of Scotland. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #School #Schools #History #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #ScotlandsPeople #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Berwickshire #Melrose #Roxburghshire #Scotland

John Lamont won #Berwickshire with a majority 1 shy of 6600 ahead of the SNP on a 61% turnout.

That was an increase in majority of 451 but a drop of 10.5% in turnout.

The south of Scotland is clearly overrun by economic migrants crossing the Tweed to take advantage of all the benefits the #SNP has introduced here.

#politics #ge2024 #scotland

It is looking hopeful that John Lamont (our Tory lobby-fodder MP in the Scottish Borders) is going to loose his seat. Just got this up in Duns. I'm leafletting tomorrow if anyone wants to join us.

#ge2024 #ScottishBorders #Berwickshire #Duns

Met (for the first time) my local SNP candidate for the GE yesterday, David Wilson who is campaigning hard to oust the Conservative John Lamont.

David is a buoyant breath of fresh air who actually answers questions sensibly without recourse to sound bites or party pre-vetted lines. Such a contrast to Tory lobby-fodder Lamont.
#ge2024 #ScottishBorders #Berwickshire

Interesting resource here to see how your MP has voted on motions related to climate change.

Sad to see that the 11 votes that John Lamont attended he abstained once and voted against positive climate action 10 times.

Don't vote Conservative if you care about climate...

#ge2024 #ClimateChange #VoteClimate #Berwickshire

VoteClimate: Find Your Constituency https://voteclimate.uk/find_your_constituency.htm

The story behind Duns Playfest. How creativity in the Scottish Borders has been nurtured, helped by Creative Scotland and other funders, to form what is becoming an annual marker on Scotland's cultural year, a showcase for new theatrical drama.
#DunsPlayFest #Duns #Berwickshire #NewWriting #Drama #Theatre #liveMusic

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/the-story-behind-dunsplayfest?fbclid=IwAR31h3g9kY3bOjR7V-npMQKgEuhHkDPbqHtdJeIl33YguVI2dCaOsDWXvNc

#DunsPlayFest an important part of the #Berwickshire cultural landscape 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A rich and diverse programme of new writing from theatre companies based in the community, performing alongside professional companies, in 2024 including Firebrand, Elysium, HotTrod Theatre Company, Clare Prenton, John McEwen & TideLine Runners, who all have a reputation for a high quality delivery of poignant and powerful work!

Join us for nine days of incredible performances and workshops! 26 April-4 May
#LiveTheatre

Last night of this excellent four night run is tonight, Saturday. Understand that there are still tickets available but suggest that you arrive by 7pm to get a seat.

Berwickshire High School has a brilliant music department. Well worth coming to see. I saw it on Thursday and going again tonight with friends.

#MusicalTheatre #liveMusic #ScottishBorders #Berwickshire #BerwickshireHighSchool #Duns

Polwarth Moss, #Berwickshire. Just off the Lauder to Duns road.
#StandingStoneSunday

So after #DunsPlayers storming success of One Man Two Governors three weeks ago, this week it is DunsOperatic's Panto 'Sword in the Stone' which I am helping backstage. They've done a brilliant job creating a magical set which is very swift to change between scenes. The dress rehearsal was definitely a laugh! Opens tomorrow, last show being Saturday matinee.
#CommunityTheatre #Panto
#Duns #Berwickshire

Lovely big tree in late afternoon sunshine. #Polwarth #Berwickshire