Cuddy Brig

I couldn't go through Innerleithen without a visit to the Cuddy Brig, as on previous visits the light has been poor. Today, although cloudy, occasionally the clouds allowed a shaft of sunlight.

The bridge over the Leithen Water was built in 1701 to allow parishioners to attend the Kirklands church, further North on the opposite side from the village. Nowadays it provides a useful crossing for cycle routes and walks to the cairns on Windy Knowe.

This photo is of the southern aspect during a brief brightening of the sky. The water was running fast but was clear as crystal, there was a flock of chaffinches playing in the trees and, had I been wearing more suitable footwear, we would have continued.to walk up the hill. That adventure can wait for another time.

Along the way home we passed two fields where hundreds of geese were foraging and saw a small skein in the sky further on.

We arrived home to find the delivery of a book, expected between yesterday and tomorrow. It had been pushed through the letterbox despite being a little too large to fit, hence the hole torn in the cardboard packaging on one side with a scrape towards the other end and also on the opposite side. Whatever happened to asking the neighbours, leaving it in (or behind) the brown bin or taking back to the sorting office? Fortunately, by a millimetre, the book survived.