Fine & very warm all day.
Bluebells everywhere. White starlike single flowers with many petals (Star of Bethlehem?) now in bloom. In the garden, forget-me-nots, tulips & one or two anemones in bloom.
The thrush near the bullace tree has not deserted her nest, as I had imagined. It is evident therefore that they can be off the nest a considerable time without the eggs getting cold.
Apple blossom just about bursting.
Impossible to get broody hens anywhere. Nobody seems to have any.
Ten eggs (plus another 5 laid out, since about the 14th).
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“Apple blossom just about bursting”
Same here in my house 15 miles south-east of Dijon, France.
Please can you remind me, where is Orwell living at this time?
@Augustus Carp: Since https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/12439/, he’s been in Wallington, http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,51.294998,0.478302&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101812867577307634528.000453f255c69c417647b&ll=51.988303,-0.118361&spn=0.006515,0.019312&z=16
It’s remarkable how much better he seem to be feeling, if number of entries is any indication of his health/mood. A few months in Morocco and a week back home in bed were just the thing, I guess.
Ten!!
Meanwhile, there is a creepiness that lurks, as it must, in the nooks and crannies of the wormhole.
I am convinced that “broody hens” is a covert euphemism (are covert euphemisms?).
“Nobody seems to have any,” indicates, quite clearly, that a spontaneous, simultaneous and surreptitious planet-wide alien abduction took place on, or just prior to, this date. Unfortunately, there is no extant archaeological evidence to support this fact.
Hey, are these really Orwell’s diaries?
No, no, “nobody seems to have any” just indicates that no one in the ‘hood has any silkies.
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