Somewhat drier. A few drops of rain. Forked over the ground for the onion bed & applied superphosphate. A few wallflowers just beginning to bud. But there are very few that are really undamaged by the frost.
15 eggs.
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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
Overheard around the red hot stove in the Wallington Tonsorial Shoppe:
“There goes that Mr. Blair in the mud and ice again.”
“I say.”
“Quite.”
“Harumph.”
Walt Disney’s new film Pinocchio opens to a warm reception from the critics.
glad to be here in your blog diary. just want to ask something about your title. Why is it “18.3.40” instead of 18.3.10. i’m kinda confused.
You can also hear the conversation in the local post office:
Orwell: ‘Somewhat drier today Mrs Blenkinsop’
Mrs B: ‘I’m sure you’ll be glad to get out into the garden’
Orwell: ‘Yes but there were a few drops of rain this morning – better get back before it starts again’
President Roosevelt went to see “Gone With The Wind” today.
A woman under a hulking, buzzing hair drier at Wallington’s infamous Le Salon de Nigel le Boucher de Cheveux was reading a magazine, so someone asked, “Are you reading the first installment of his whale story?”
“Oh, my, no. No. No.”
“Neither would I; I mean, really!”
“Indeed.”
A Monty Python performer said, “I think it’s the Egg Sickness, I do, what makes him wallow like that.”
And then someone blurted out that Atlantic shipping losses for the week ending March 17 are 3 British, 1 French, 4 neutral, 3 German.
Later, in the stillness of the pastoral nightscape, no one heard the Morse Code signals but they were there, down in the bunker and, sometimes, in the attic.