A deceptive sort of day. Was knocked up at 5 a.m. to see Mary Thomson, Hill Street.1 It was a perfect morning, calm + clear but with the marks of big rain drops. It kept fair most of the day with a very slight drizzle at 3.40. I went for a run to Rink + Yair Bridge2 + coming back got wet. Had to change. Dined at Elmpark.3 The Charles’s there.4 Dav.5 called to say he was shooting at Hume + Oxmuir.6
1 Assume Mary Lockie Thomson (1891-), daughter of William Nichol Thomson, blacksmith, and Margaret Thomson nee Broadfoot, recorded in 1921 as a powerloom weaver for George Roberts & Co. Ltd., tweed manufacturers.
2 The Rink, grid reference NGR NT482,323, and Yair Bridge, NT458,325, both Caddonfoot parish.
3 Elm Park, Selkirk, home of Dr Muir’s good friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946).
4 Mr and Mrs Charles are so far unidentified.
5 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
6 The second word works quite well as “tower” (from some angles Hume Castle looks very much like a tower) or as “+ oxmuir” (Oxmuir is about a mile E.N.E. of Hume Castle).
[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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