Bootsam, Ah don't worry. If caught at the wrong time the A7 is full of buses, trucks taking a shortcut and dangerous hidden driveways on sweeping bends. You'd have been a celebrity in Newtongrange with an 1198!
Ive still got family and relations there. I havent been back since 1990. Its not the same as I remembered it as a kid. Its cleaner for a start. Besides I was already famous there. I'm related to most of them.
I moved away when I was 8. So it got better for the last 40yrs... Besides I prefer my Fathers sides origins, Dumfries.
