Brilliant morning. Just a slight powdering of snow lying on roofs +c. It was a sharp drying forenoon from W. + the roads improved rapidly but about 6.30 p.m. there was some very heavy rain. Walked in town in forenoon + in afternoon cycled to Fairnilea Lodge + Yair. The Lauderdale hounds, which met at Gala, were hunting around the Yair woods. I wondered how they had crossed the Tweed which was very heavy. Helen1 cycled to call for Miss Scott at Hawkshaw. She got news of the engagement of Mr McKenzie to a Gala girl, daughter of Tait the painter + decorator!2
1 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper
2 No such marriage appears to have taken place
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]
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