A little ore snow + the same keen N.W. to N. wind. Thinking the roads would not be good for cycling I walked to Midlem Old Manse to see John Cochrane.1 I went right round by Kingcroft Toll2 + put in nearly but not quite 4 m.p.h. The roads were quite hard + frozen + the thin coating of snow so dry that I could have cycled quite well. Nettie Watson3 from Ettrickhall was down + I fitted on the splint for her trigger finger.
1 John Cochrane is so far unidentified.
2 Kingcroft Toll appears to have been on the Selkirk – St Boswells Road but is otherwise unidentified.
3 Nettie Watson is unidentified but John Watson, 47, was recorded at Ettrickhall, Ettrick, in the 1921 Census, with his wife Isabella, 47, and children Madge, 22, William 16, and Janet, 12.
[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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