Appeared to stop freezing for about an hour in the afternoon, otherwise no thaw. Still & sunny. Poultry manure frozen hard & easy to break up, so scattered a patch with this, which can be dug in[1] later. This patch (next the unmanured patch this side of the raspberries) will do for onions.
9 eggs.
[1] Originally ‘broken up’. Peter Davison
What did he do to observe that it “appeared to stop freezing for about an hour”? Put out pans of water?
Amazing, isn’t it? Obviously, in his never-ending quest for knowing exactly what is going on, I imagine he was swapping out pans of water on an hourly basis, chasing the shade around a tree.
Over in Colchester, E J Rudsdale reports, “German planes in the district this morning. Heavy gunfire heard from the direction of Clacton, but no alarm.”
Redsdale’s journal is an excellent find — thanks JL3rd! Now if you can only find one that combines news of the war with citations from Smallholder, and egg counts, and skating….
Poultry manure? George, sometimes I can’t believe you. It’s called chicken shit.