We trooped with her down the
brae to the wooden station, and I think I was envying her the journey in the mysterious wagons; I know we played around her, proud of our right to be there, but I do not recall it, I only speak from hearsay.
I have fished a water with a sentry on the other side of the
brae, and killed a fine trout; and I have sat in a heather bush within six feet of another, and learned a real bonny tune from his whistling.
So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour's practice of "Ar hyd y nos," "Ye banks and
braes," and other favorite airs from his "Instructor on the Flute;" a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible hopefulness.
We twa hae run about the
braes, And pu'd the gowans fine; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot, Sin auld lang syne.
We twa hae run about the
braes And pu'd the gowans' fine
a Bristow-operated helicopter mistakenly made a landing approach to the
Brae Bravo platform, seven miles from its destination,
Brae alpha, last august.
But, in our memories, Murray's lime-washed cottage on Boor's
Brae and Baillie's Foxbar Farm still dapple buttercup-bespangled meadows.
The book contains three and a half years of research into the work of Newall, who also designed Moat
Brae.
SHINING Author She is patron of Moat
Brae House in Dumfries, the magnificent Georgian property which inspired JM Barrie to write Peter Pan.
Neglected for many years, Moat
Brae house and garden was where the young J.M.
Moat
Brae, a Georgian property in Dumfries, was saved from demolition a decade ago, and has now been restored as an international visitor attraction.
The council made a temporary closure order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 that will close the street from the junction of Ferniebank
Brae to the junction of Abercromby Drive.