25.4.40

Posted on 25 April by orwelldiaries

Beautiful spring weather. Heard the cuckoo (first time). Many midges about now. Bullace blossom pretty well out. Cut the grass, dug a trench for 3rd row of peas, gave the strawberries a little more manure. These are now free of weeds. If they have one more good weeding after the bindweed has shown itself & the annual weeds have begun, they can then be strawed & netted up. A few broad beans up.

16 eggs. Sold 1 score @ 3/3 (?milkman).

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5 Responses to 25.4.40

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  2. JamesonLewis3rd says:
    25 April at 12:13 pm

    In my “mind” the declaration that the strawberry patch is now weed free is made with images swirling in his cranium of the relentless effort necessary to be able to make this pronouncement validating the value of strawberry cheesecake throughout history.

  3. The Ridger says:
    25 April at 12:57 pm

    The cuckoo at last!

  4. JamesonLewis3rd says:
    26 April at 2:27 am

    Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in ‘the law’ as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible.
    ~~~~~
    England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

    [The Lion and the Unicorn]

  5. yarb says:
    26 April at 5:25 am

    Dug a trench, eh? Good man!

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