At Kelso there is a fine bridge over the River Tweed.

From its parapet you get a view of Floors Castle in the distance. (You might have to zoom in on the photo though.)

I see this year’s Hugo Award for best novel has gone to Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi, which I reviewed for Interzone 245 and posted on my blog in May.

Must have been a bad year…

Meanwhile Paul Kincaid has blogged about why hard SF is inherently right wing.

This reminded me of my feelings about Robert Heinlein’s short story The Roads Must Roll.

I have visited Kelso, in the Scottish Borders region, before but hadn’t explored widely so hadn’t seen any deco. Due to parking in a different place from my earlier visits the Tait Hall was one of the first buildings I noticed this time. Designed by William Barclay in 1933 it has typical Deco features, strong verticals and horizontals, banding and it looks like original fenestration! The cut-outs on the upper parts of the side extensions are also good.

Once home I found a much better picture than any of mine on the net. (No van in the foreground for a start.)

Not far from the Tait Hall is the Contented Vine Restaurant, once the Roxy Cinema. The railings were getting a paint job at the time.

Nice pedimenting and pastel outlining. Pity about the replacement windows on this one.

More photos of Kelso are on my flickr.

This is a simple cross on a pedestal. The front lists 14 names for 1914-1918.

The WW2 dead (4 names) are listed on this side.