To commemorate the handover of the Commonwealth Games flag from India to Scotland, Bolly Borders is a visual feast of music, song and dance. This FREE fun day will take place on Thursday, 14 October in the Volunteer Hall and Bank Street Gardens in Galashiels.

When I was a boy, I loved walking with Dad into Roland Tait's ironmongers in Selkirk. Cubby holes of wartime boxes of bits and bobs. Walls of hanging wood and iron tools. Sprays of brooms, brushes and white cotton mops. Shelves of glass bottles filled with coloured liquids. Bright, shiny plastic buckets and dustpans. Corridors of boxes. Off-rooms of tiny drawers spilling nails, screws and tacks.