Chambre à Coucher

At 8am as promised, the delivery van from Birmingham arrived with a bed, wardrobe, drawers, chair, low table, bed-side cabinets and ottoman for Bedroom 1. The bed and wardrobe required customer assembly.......i.e. me.  For some this is the stuff of horrors, but I have a De Walt Impact Driver with a wide variety of bits, screwdrivers and hex attachments. Self-assembly furniture presents no challenge to me. 

A few frustrated, sweary hours later, my task was complete and I pulled on my chaps, jumped on my trusty steed and headed down the Rio Tweed to Kelso. Having sourced a decent coffee shop, I retired to Kelso's lovely main square and sipped my beverage whilst trying to ignore a very loud and overweight cockney, who was sitting in the glare of the sun,  complaining about the temperature and how sweaty it was making him. What is the freezer aisle in Lidl for if not for days like today? 

As soon as I could get the coffee down my neck, I bolted via the A699 around Roxburgh Castle and on to Roxburgh village, stopping to buy some 'honesty box' honey as I passed through the village before heading south west-ish to Nisbet, Monteviot, up over Peniel Heugh (very sweaty 10%er on a day like today) and then the long descent down to Maxton and home to Bozzels. Phew! 

Defrosting a veggie curry and messaging Nancy to find out what train she is on for her commute home from the smoke.