Hard frost + a dry keen N.W. scarcely as strong as yesterday. My dyspepsia very bad culminating in retching but by dinner time I felt rather better. Cycled to Bridgelands + Goslaw Green + later ran out to the road end + walked to Gala Rigg. The wind as I came down was piercingly cold. Mrs Mack1 + Helen2 were at the Child Welfare Xmas tea + came here for tea. After dinner Helen went to Badminton + I went down to Elmpark.
1 Dr Muir’s good friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
2 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime 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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