Still coldish. N.W. wind but otherwise a fine day. Cycled round town + made 15 calls + then cycled to the Hartwoodburn1 road + I walked across to Deepslade.2 It was so sunny that I sat down behind a dyke out of the wind + had a cigarette. Had meeting of V.A.D. Committee3 at night to arrange for an outing. Decided to go to Hume Castle on 22d. 30 members have announced their intention of continuing in the detachment.
1 The road through Hartwoodburn, grid reference NGR NT471,267, runs across the south of Selkirk from Oakwood Mill to the A7 opposite Selkirk Common in a roughly E – W direction.
2 Deepslaids, grid reference NGR NT485,268, on the south side of Selkirk Common.
3 Dr Muir was the Commandant of the Selkirkshire Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) during the First World War and must still have been so in 1923.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
Rumbling Clint's Scottish Notes 