Route A699

Left to my own devices last night….i was in bed by 9pm……times have changed!

Sparky had me up at 6am and so I had to wait a bit before the sun came up. I occupied myself with some scout admin and the newspaper when it was eventually delivered. Our usual papergirl is sick (overworked?) and the boy replacing her has none of her work ethic. Honestly, child workers these days....

Then I jumped on my bike and clocked 40kms whilst stopping to collect occasional items of roadside litter in my bag. McDonald’s wrappers were, by some margin, the favoured item to be lobbed oot the windae.

Home and Nancy arrived from Crieff cluching the ingredients for tea and we made a salmon curry together. Mighty tasty it was too, setting us up for Masterchef on the telebox. Has under scrutiny Greig Wallace been edited out as far as possible from these episodes?

Now then, the weather forecast looks good for the next 48 hours, if that’s accurate there’s more cycling to be done.

Close to it's terminus in Kelso, the A699 crosses a 5-arched bridge built by John Rennie in 1803 to replace one destroyed by floods six years earlier, and was used as a model for the Waterloo Bridge which he built in London in 1811.