An afternoon in Englandshire....

"Stand to your arms, then, and march in good order;
England shall many a day
Tell of the bloody fray,
When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border."

- Border Ballad, Sir Walter Scott

I crossed the border today into Northumberland to visit friends who were renting a cottage for the week. This is the bridge crossing the Tweed and the Border at Coldstream where I come back across tonight. Maybe in the future there will be some kind of Passport Control here where one must swear allegiance to King Alex of Scotland before one can be admitted!