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Monthly Archives: October 2008
31.10.38
Ditto. One egg. Inside bad again. Fruit on sale here much resembling a strawberry, but full of pips & has an unpleasant sour taste. Put paraffin on water in the fountain yesterday. About 30 square feet, & about a cupful … Continue reading
28.10.38
One egg. Many black beetles squashed in the road. Inside they are brilliant vermillion. Men ploughing with teams of oxen after the rain. Wretched ploughs, with no wheel, which only stir the soil.
27.10.38
On Tuesday afternoon (25th) tremendous rain, much as in the tropics except that it was very cold rain. Everything has flooded feet deep, the earth not yet dry. The Oued Tensift is now quite a considerable stream & low ground … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged animal feed, beetles, black lice, horticulture, Marrakech, mosquitoes, Oued Tensift, sparrows, tomatoes, weather, weeds, wild ducks
12 Comments
25.10.38
Much cooler. Yesterday overcast & cool all day, with occasional sharp showers. Violent wind & storms of rain in the night. Fire last night & this morning, not absolutely necessary but acceptable. The brown goat, besides being very difficult to … Continue reading
23.10.38
The water here evidently has some minerals in it which is the cause of the almost continuous belly ache we have had since coming here. Near the Oued Tensift noticed that where the water had receded it had left some … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Atlas mountains, bellyache, bottled water, chillis, nasturtiums, oranges, Oued Tensift, pansies, phlox D., soil, weather
9 Comments
21.10.38
Yesterday went to the Oued Tensift, about 2Km. from here, the principal river of these parts. About 5 yards wide & 1 – 3’ deep, but lies in a considerable valley & probably rises at some times of the year. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bitter oranges, goats, Oued Tensift, red shank, ringed plover, weather
13 Comments
20.10.38
The two turtle doves after about 2 days plucked up the courage to leave their house, flew off & presently disappeared. The Arabs said that they would not return. However, they come every day for corn, & sleep in the … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged charcoal braziers, chickens, dates, goats, milking, sheep, turtle doves, vegetables, weather
11 Comments
18.10.38
We have now lost 3 fowls in addition to the one which was presumably pecked to death. Symptoms all the same – loss of power of legs & head drooping. Evidently paralysis, tho’ attributed by the Arabs to a black … Continue reading
16.10.38, Villa Simont, route de Casablanca
Yesterday intolerably hot. In the evening thunderstorms & torrential rain, flooding the ground some inches deep. This morning a disaster. One hen dead, another evidently dying. Forget the name of the disease, which has something to do with the throat. … Continue reading
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