A most charming summer like day. Almost continuous sunshine + a very slight N.W. wind. I was going to Church when D.1 asked me to give Chlor[oform] for circumcision at the Home2 + I also got a ‘Phone to see old Jas. Hogg at Bowhill N. Lodge.3 Cycled there + leaving my bike at the watering trough I climbed Foulshiels Hill4 + had a lovely view except to N. + N.E. + E. It is only the 2nd or 3rd time I have been at the top. Jack + Nancy5 motored to Tushielaw6 to call for A Grieve7 + Helen8 went with them to Gilmanscleuch9. Jack + Nancy came to supper. I went to evening service.
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Viewfield, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s nursing home at the top of Viewfield Park and immediately behind the Victoria Halls.
3 Dr Muir had been visiting James Hogg at Bowhill North Lodge from time to time since November 1922 [see diary entries for 19, 20, 22, 25 November and 24 December 1922].
4 Foulshiels Hill, grid reference NGR NT427,302. The cattle trough may be that shown just south of Old Broadmeadows on Ordnance Survey 25 inch Selkirkshire Sheet XI.3, published 1899, at grid reference NGR NT418,297. There are no other troughs shown between Harehead and the unnamed bridge east of North Lodge on either Sheet XI.3, above, nor its counterpart to the south Ordnance Survey 25 inch Selkirkshire Sheet XI.7, published 1899.
5 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner, and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), of Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk.
6 Tushielaw, Ettrick.
7 Grieve is unidentified.
8 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
9 Gilmanscleuch, Kirkhope.
[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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