Swimming with ‘the great white shark’
THE road from Morebattle to Kelso in the Scottish Borders has seen its fair share of bloodshed over the centuries, so it is appropriate that a stretch of it is now farmed by the scourge of the 1980s English rugby team, John Jeffrey. His farm, Kersknowe (literally, Ker’s hillock), is named after the Kers of Cessford, notorious Border Reivers who plundered English cattle across the Middle March in the 16th century and whose descendant, the Duke of Roxburghe, is Mr Jeffrey’s landlord. It’s the cattle that draw my attention to his farm. There’s a field of
