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Tag Archives: ducklings
15.8.39.
Hot. Had some damsons stewed (rather sour.) Ground dries up very rapidly. A few larkspurs coming into flower, roses coming into second bloom (most of them not good owing to the species of blight they have this year). The pumpkin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged broody hen, damsons, dead shrew, ducklings, larkspurs, pumpkins, roses, snail, wasps
5 Comments
8.7.39.
Raining much of the day, a fine interval in the evening, very windy. Picked some more loganberries. One hollyhock beginning to flower. A few runner beans show buds. Tomatoes flowering, also several marrows. One or two snapdragons beginning to flower. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, ducklings, egg total, hollyhock, limping pullet, loganberries, marrows, potatoes, runner beans, snapdragons, tomatoes, weather
3 Comments
4.7.39.
Fine & hot. A few raspberries reddening. Phloxes in bud, also bergamot. Goats escaped this morning & ate a lot of fruit tree shoots, rose shoots & some tops of phloxes. Pullets still limping badly & fear some kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bergamot, chicken feed, ducklings, goats, limping pullet, phlox, raspberries, weather
3 Comments
1.7.39.
Fine most of morning, very heavy showers in afternoon. Garden mostly in good condition. Some strawberries ripe, a few broad beans fit to pick, onions improving, runner beans just starting to climb strings. Hay is cut & stacked in small … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged ducklings, hay, marigolds, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, scabious, strawberries, weather
2 Comments
30.6.39.
Ducklings still under hen this morning but in the afternoon came out to eat (brown bread crumbled with milk & dried a little with a sprinkling of chickmeal). Thundery weather with heavy showers. 14 eggs.
29.6.39.
Hot & sunny most of the day. One duck had hatched this morning. Later moved the hen to a new coop & left the more backward eggs with another broody. By evening 7 ducks; the eigtth° shows no signs of … 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
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