It wasn't just any old harvest season for Reay Paterson, who works at Deanfoot Farm in Hawick, as at the age of 75, he was celebrating doing 60 years of the job he loves.

At the age of 15, Mr Paterson completed his first harvest at Newton Farm – then owned by Miss Robson Scott – where he worked until the farm was sold in 1985. Moving to Deanfoot Farm where he has been working ever since, he told The SF that he has had his fair share of harvest seasons but wouldn’t trade anything for a job that he loves and the ‘tremendous’ people he works with.

At Deanfoot he has worked for father Peter and now son James Manners, where they grow oilseed rape, winter barley, wheat and oats.

During the winter Reay said he takes a break, but he’ll still be out three days a week cutting hedges and helping on the farm.

Celebrating his 75th birthday this year, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon and joked he might do another year of harvest yet.