Scott's View. Can you spot Melrose in the distance? Enjoy your Tuesday!

Thanks to Susie Elizabeth Walker for this great picture! #bbfbookbag has made it to Sydney! #bbfbagsontour

Our friends from Melrose Rugby Football Club are crowdfunding for a 3G pitch for all sports to Melrose, home of the famous Rugby Sevens. For those of you who are not familiar with a 3G pitches (we weren't), those are the most significant and successful development in synthetic surface technology designed for a myriad of sports from golf, fitness training, athletics, children's PE, netball and of course rugby and football at competitive, training and recreational levels. The 3G turf pile (artificial grass ‘blades’) is supported by a thin base layer of sand, and by an infill of rubber crumb, making it an ideal all weather surface. You can support them on the Crowdfunding page.

We really appreciate your feedback. If you attended the Borders Book Festival this year, even just to bask in the sunshine in the Orchard, please give us your opinion. It won't take long and help us to improve your experience at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival. Thanks (:

Claire Grieves Baillie Gifford BBF bag has made it to Malta! So far that's London, kalkan, Turkey and Malta! #bbfbagsontour

We asked Steve Backshall and a few of our visitors if they can describe the Borders Book Festival in a book title. Here's the result. Leave us a comment to describe your festival experience in a book title. And if you haven't given us feedback on this year's festival in our online survey, please take a few minutes to do so here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/bbf2017facebook MBTAG - Midlothian Borders Tourism Action Group borders.co.uk Creative Scotland borderevents The Southern Reporter Border Telegraph Cycle Scottish Borders SBHA HomeChoice

Dear followers, if you haven't answered our survey yet, we would like if you do! Your feedback helps us to make the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival a better event year on year. And event if you didn't get any event tickets but just enjoyed the great offer in The Orchard, we would still love to hear from you. If you have participated in the survey already, a huge thanks!

#bordersbookfest2017 bags have reached Turkey! Handy for suntan lotion as well as books! Happy summer reading folks!

Please give us your opinion! If you attended the 2017 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival we’d love to hear about your experiences. You might have had an email from us, and if you already answered our survey, then a big thanks! If you haven’t completed it yet, even if you visited the festival only to bask in the sunshine and to enjoy the great offerings in the Orchard, we’d love to hear about your Festival experience and would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete our short survey. Your answers are invaluable, helping us to secure future funding and sponsorship. They will also feed into our planning process to make the Festival even better. We would appreciate it if you could complete the survey by no later than Tuesday 11 July 2017. Please be assured that all answers you give will remain confidential. Thank your for your participation.

Thanks to SBHA HomeChoice for sponsoring our Family Book Festival and offering tickets to no less than 45 of their tenants, who enjoyed a glorious weekend.

The 2017 Festival is over, and we are already looking forward to 2018. Here's more about this year's festival on our website. The videos on our YouTube channel are a pretty good way to catch up as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl63cwbgTwRc7XqbEAfW1LA Thanks for making this year's festival such a success!

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