So what did we do on Sunday? Well, first we went to Morrisons for breakfast. Sausage, bacon and egg may have been consumed, along with fried bread and potato scone ( and of course HP sauce) - oh dear if it tastes that good, it must be bad for you!
To work off some of the calories, we then walked to the other end of Hawick High Street, to see this wonderful statue, which had been unveiled the day before
The statue, the work of Innerleithen sculptress Angela Hunter, is of the first Turnbull. The story is that William of Rule saved the life of Robert the Bruce by wrestling a bull to the ground, thus earning the name Turnbull. You can read more about it here.
The detail of the work is amazing - here is a selection of the many photos I took!
While I was taking the photos, Malcolm was looking over the wall at the river - and there, posing beautifully was a heron (perhaps the one we've seen before?)
I find it fascinating the way herons stand motionless, watching the water - I had plenty of time to move to get a different view
We then walked the long way round to get back to the car (walking off more of those breakfast calories!) On the way, I found not one but two more postboxes, both of them set into the walls of houses
This next photo is for Sarah, who like rusty things! (I don't think that's weird - you know I like things like old fenceposts!!)
Then we saw this wonderful fence made of old railway sleepers (I don't often admit to this, but a long time ago when I had a proper job, I worked for British Rail, so I know a thing or two about sleepers!)
If you look back at the previous photo, you'll also see sleepers to the left of the green shed. So why so many sleepers - a clue could be this little hump-backed bridge
If you look over the bridge, all you see now is this
But before Doctor Beeching arrived with his axe, this was the railway line from Edinburgh to Carlisle. There are plans to restore some of the railway line from Edinburgh, but it will only come as far Melrose, as some of the line now has houses on it!!