Delightful day : no wind plenty sun : rather hazy. Had horrible indigestion + sat up in my dressing gown in the Smoke room after a hot bath till between 4 + 5.1 When I was shaving I had one of my giddy, [illegible] attacks + fell off the chair. However I improved during the day. Cycled in town + motored to Hyndhope + walked to the Back o’ the hill of Howford2 where new people Hogg have come.3 He is a brother of John Hogg, Cramalt.4 The Patons5 were here. I had a meeting of the Cycle Club Commttee at night. Nancy + Jack6 went to Cheviot via College Water.7
1 For a man of nearly 80 Dr Muir wasn’t slowing down much.
2 Dr Muir drove to Hyndhope, Kirkhope, grid reference NGR NT366,210 from where (not the obvious route) he walked into the area at the back of (south of) Howford Hill and Helmburn Hill, see Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XV, published 1863 (later six inch sheets split the area north and south and thus diminish one’s ability to see the area as one).
3 Assume Arthur Hogg, shepherd, who was Inhabitant Occupier not rated at a house at Howford, Kirkhope [1924 Valuation Rolls VR011700009-/475, Selkirk County, page 475 of 605].
4 The brothers have not yet been precisely identified, partly because no Hogg is recorded at this time at Cramalt.
5 Isabella Clementina ‘Isa’ Paton (1838-1929) and her sister Marion Agnes Paton (about 1841-1940) had lived at Galashiels since moving there from Selkirk in May 1918.
6 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, and her husband John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner.
7 The College Burn, a linear feature through grid reference NGR NT893,276 and which debouches into the River Glen near Westnewton, Northumberland (south west of Milfield). The couple must have ascended The Cheviot, NT909,205, by its northerly or westerly flank.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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