Raining this morning as usual but faired by 10 + was a fine drying day. Glass still very low but rose to 28.8. Motored round town + then as it seemed fine I cycled to Eastfield1 going + coming via Midlem. It is just a fraction over 6 [miles] that way. Stopped between Eastfield + Midlem + enjoyed the lovely row. Cheviot was bathed in sunshine but there was rain at Peel Fell2 + then went to Thornfield3 to tea.
1 Dr Muir may have been at Eastfield, Bowden, just south of the Selkirk – St Boswells road [1921 Census] to attend Robert Ballantyne (1905-), born Ashkirk, son of Arthur Ballantyne and Violet Ballantyne née Wilson. On 13 August 1923 Mrs Ballantyne and Robert had presented themselves at evening consultation in some sort of difficulty and Dr Muir had also seen then since then.
2 Looking E.S.E. Dr Muir saw sun over the Cheviot but turning S.S.E. he saw rain at Peel Fell which sits above the road from Saughtree to Kielder.
3 Thornfield was the home of Charles Henry ‘Charlie’ Roberts (1877-1954), younger brother of John Roberts junior, Dr Muir’s son-in-law.
[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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