FIELD FACTS
Buccleuch Arms Hotel
01683 220003
www.buccleuch armshotel.com Dryburgh Abbey Hotel
01835 822261
www.dryburgh.co.uk Horse & Hound Country Inn
01450 860645
www.horseand hound.co.uk The Plough Hotel Yetholm
01573 420215
www.theplough hotelyetholm.co.uk CASTLES Neidpath Castle
01721 720333
www.neidpathcastle. co.uk EVENTS Border Union Show
01573 224188
www.buas.org/show SCHOOLS St Mary’s School Melrose
01896 822517
www.stmarys melrose.org.uk SHOPPING Cloud Nine
01573 224742
www.facebook.com /CloudNineKelso FOOD & DRINK Berwick Food & Beer Festival
berwickfoodand beerfestival@outlook. com
www.berwickfood andbeerfestival.co.uk Herges on the Loch
01896 759909
Martin Baird Butcher
01896 822 016
www.martinbaird butchers.co.uk The Orde Food Company
01573 229 150
www.ordefood.com VISITOR ATTRACTIONS Floors Castle
01573 450 331
www.roxburghe.net/ castle Ford & Etal
01890 820338
www.ford-and-etal. co.uk Gunsgreen House
01890 752062
www.guns greenhouse.org Kailzie Gardens
01721 720007
www.kailzie gardens.com Mellerstain House
01573 410225
www.mellerstain.com Visit Kelso www.visitkelso.com you work on it you can heighten and nurture it.
One of the best moments of my career so far was performing for the Dalai Lama when he came to Scotland in 2004. He presented me with a white prayer shawl in front of 3,000 people. I wasn’t expecting it at all. I was on a high for a month afterwards, it was such a great honour. There have been other highlights too: Philip Glass invited me to perform at the Carnegie Hall, I have collaborated with Ray Davies of The Kinks and I have performed in front of 20,000 people in China. It has truly been a wonderful journey. I have been performing since I was twelve years old and I don’t get nervous – the stage is where I feel most at ease because I know my purpose on this planet is to share and communicate through music, and to connect with people without using words. I know it is my mission and I feel at home there. I’d be more nervous talking to someone alone off stage.
I have lived in Manhattan, Montpellier and Barcelona, but when I come back to the Borders it is as if none of that ever happened. It is a time capsule. I’ve always returned periodically. When I lived in New York I found it hard to come back, kind of unsettling. This place has always been here for me, but for now I am out in the world. I know my home in Westruther will always be a safe and protective place for me. Wherever I go in the world, I feel very blessed to have come from here – it has nourished me and enriched my life.
‘Life is about being open and well. I am a very open being and I am very sensitive to smell, sight, sound, and my sixth sense – intuition’
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Phamie relaxes in her parents’ Westruther cottage, where she spent weekends as a child.