Fair morning : Drizzle in afternoon + fair at night. Rained all night.1 Rivers flooded. Tweed especially very big. Note to see Marion Paton.2 Cycled there + Sund. Hall Garden + went on to Gattonside where I explored the path running up behind the village. There are far more houses than one sees from the road. It is a steep narrow track, stony + muddy, till a gate into the field above Friarshall + then the path broadens.3 Took my tea beyond this field + then the drizzle began. But I went on + came home via Leaderfoot, Eildon, Whiterig + Bowden.
1 The Editor thinks reads rather confused.
2 Marion Agnes Paton (about 1841-1940), had lived with her sister Isabella Clementina ‘Isa’ Paton (1838-1929) at Galashiels since moving there from Selkirk in May 1918.
3 Friar’s Hall, grid reference NGR NT549,350, visible on Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet VIII.NW, published 1899.
[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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