There were one or two slight showers today but on the way whole it was a [sic] better one than we have had. There was a fair amount of sun + a cold W. wind. Very little doing. Walked to Curror Street + Hospital + then to Tower Street, Backrow + Tait’s Hill. Sat in smoke room + added my cycling mileage for last year. Jan. 1 – Dec 31. Professional = 1487.98 – non = 1084.75. Total 2572.73. Apr 1 /22 – Apr 1 23 prof = 1598.78.1 Bella2 paid some accounts.
1 Those are interesting numbers. Dr Muir cycled, for work and for leisure, a shade over 7 miles every day of that year.
2 Isabella ‘Bella’ Paulin (1873-), Dr Muir’s housekeeper.
[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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