Rose 5.30. Touch of frost which did not hold but made the roads stickier. Dull in afternoon+ threatening rain. Cycled round town + to Firs in forenoon + to Hospital, Bridgelands, Lindean + Faldonside in afternoon. Nancy1 has gone into Edinburgh for [work? week?] and to Herdman’s.2 Saw snow drops yesterday at Almshouses + winter aconite3 at The Firs.
1 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
2 The Editor wonders if this is is connected with Charles William ‘Charlie’ Herdman (1880-1956), and his family. He was later Proprietor Occupier at Friarshaugh, Friarshall and Fauhope Mains, Melrose, Roxburghshire.
3 Winter Aconite or Eranthis hyemalis.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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