The Saltire was here in Hawick to celebrate Towser's fiftieth birhday. Fur Towser was probably completed by my late mother a few days earlier, but his date of birth has always been regarded as 2nd April 1960 when he was standing waiting to meet me when I returned home from a day out with my parents. My mother made lots of scots terriers from the same pattern for myself and other children, but most had her old dresses for a skin. Fur Towser was somehow more lifelike, in weighing heavier and being coated in fur fabric.

We had a special birthday cake.

Later in the afternoon Towser and the Saltire went to the big hoose.....

.............To visit Ann.
I explained to Ann that the Saltire had come to see her all the way from the San Francisco bay area as a gesture of friendship.