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Monthly Archives: May 2009
31.5.39.
Fine & warm, but strikes very chilly as soon as the sun begins to go in. Tomatoes (protected from the sun with sacking) are O.K. A few French & runner beans showing. M’s mate no good. When bringing her back … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged french beans, goat, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, tomatoes, udders, weather, white owl
4 Comments
30.5.39.
Very fine & warm. Planted potatoes (12), putting sacking over to protect them from the sun. One cheddar pink is out. A fine drizzle for a little while in the morning. Note that netting strawberries does not seem to inhibit … Continue reading
29.5.39.
Very fine & warm. Netted strawberries. Took M. to the billy but fear she is not on heat. Mr N.[1] says they usually only are on autumn-spring. M. greatly afraid of a cow. The cow, on the other hand, frightened … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bird feed, goat, mash, Mr. N., Muriel on heat, newspaper cutting, weather
8 Comments
28.5.39. (Whit Sunday)
Very chilly in early morning, the rest of the day fine & sunny. Some salvias were planted last night. Daily Mail rose now almost ready to open, buds on Dorothy Perkins & Albertine. Delphinium buds forming, peonies not far from … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Albertine rose, Daily Mail rose, delphiniums, Dorothey Perkins rose, peonies, salvias, weather
7 Comments
27.5.39
Overcast in the morning, fine & warm in the afternoon. Blue speedwell & bugle out everywhere. Buttercups about at their tallest. Dandelions seeding. Large toadstools in the fields. Strawed strawberries. Applied sodium chlorate to the remaining patch under the walnut … Continue reading
26.5.39.
Warm. Ground is very dry. Fly is in the turnips. Many apples forming. Strawberries should be netted about a fortnight from now. Titly° has potatoes already earthed up. He says Catriona do not keep well for seed but store all … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged antirrhinums, blue flax, chicks, egg total, fly, storing potatoes, strawberries, turnips, weather
2 Comments
25.5.39.
Yesterday & the day before very warm. Today overcast, chilly enough to have a fire, & a few drops of rain. Got back[1] yesterday after nearly 3 weeks’ absence. Soil is very dry, weeds terrible except in kitchen garden. The … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, aubretia, bush roses, carnations, cheddar pinks, chicks, currants, double egg, egg total, flowers, forget-me-nots, gooseberries, hemlock, loganberries, mole, Muriel, nettles, pansies, peonies, saxifrage, sweet williams, tulips, vegetables, wallflowers, weather, weeds, yellow alyssum
7 Comments
21.5.39.
Today & yesterday fine, but it is still not any too warm. Roses here are in full bud & almost out. Greenfly very bad. Lupins almost out. London Pride (kind of large saxifrage) is out. The gardener here[1] says that … Continue reading
16.5.39.
[from 16 May the Diary is again in Orwell’s hand] London: Weather for the most part showery, with fine intervals. In Greenwich Park, chestnuts, pink chestnuts (but not Spanish ones) in flower, also lilac, hawthorn. Some of the wild ducks … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chestnuts, ducklings, Greenwich Park, hawthorn, lilac, newspaper cutting, recipes, tulips, uses for sour milk, wallflowers
25 Comments
9.5.39.
Young pigeon in nest outside hospital window.
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