Rose at 5 + worked wages [?]
Fine day + some frost. Wind W.N.W. Was able to cycle to Ettrickbank, Sunderland, Blackhaugh + Broomhill.1 Roads in fine order. Still a lot of snow on the hills. Mrs Pollok2 has been down stairs for some weeks in the evening but has not been quite as well for the last 10 days. Saw a kingfisher at Yair.3
1 The Editor does not routinely footnote locations but Blackhaugh, in Caddonfoot Parish, must have been on the very edge of Dr Muir’s practice. It is at grid reference NGR NT42355,38350, where a ford across the Caddon Water is clearly visible on Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet III.SE, published 1900. The proprietor was The Right Honourable Baroness Fanny G J Reay and the tenants of the various houses there included John Elliot, Walter Hogarth, George Paton, John Brockie and George Hope.
2 Jane Pollok née MacLaurin or McLaurin (1856-1911), first wife of John Pollok (1858-1938), solicitor, Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal.
3 Dr Muir would have been at Yair en route to or from Blackhaugh.
[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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