Kirkton Manor.

There was a varroa workshop (Varroa destructor being the dreaded bee mite) in Manor village hall that took up most of today. It’s not that I was particularly ignorant of the subject but it does no harm to go back to first principles and reconsider one’s approach to dealing with a problem; not only that, but beekeepers are usually a friendly and talkative lot and a bit of socialising doesn’t go amiss either.

I did learn quite a bit of useful stuff too.

Just over the road from the hall lies this manor house while, just out of shot on the right, is this letter box and, next door to the hall is an equestrian centre. Scott Brash, a resident of the nearby town of Peebles was a member to the gold medal winning show jumping team at the London Olympics, a fact officially commemorated with a gold pillar box in the town. Presumably the lad is a regular visitor to Kirkton and so some local has seen fit to paint the local letter box; it shouldn’t be difficult to trace the vandal as, apart from the afore mentioned establishments, I could only find a church and two cottages in the village.