Tag Archives: egg total

20.4.40

Overcast but not particularly cold. Some people heard the cuckoo this morning, but I did not. Some rain about midday. Hedges are still decidedly bare. Winter wheat looks good in most places. Tulips are out in some gardens. Black currants … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackcurrants, carrots, cuckoo, egg total, eggs, explosion, hedges, lupin, munition works, onions, potatoes, tulips, weather, winter wheat | 2 Comments

13.4.40

Posted on 13 April by orwelldiaries

Still, not warm, overcast but no rain. Sowed kale, savoys, sprouts, lettuce (cos), radishes. (Not broccoli, as the seed I have is of a late kind, to be sowed about May-June). Also leeks, 10-week stocks, foxgloves. Planted out 1 score … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged awning, broccoli, broken, cos, egg total, eggs, fertiliser, foxgloves, frost, ground, kale, leeks, lettuce, overcast, radishes, rose cuttings, sacking, savoys, sprouts, stocks, woolworths | 2 Comments

6.4.40

Posted on 6 April by orwelldiaries

Sharp frost last night. Beautiful still sunny day, turning rather cold again this evening. Dug some more. Frost has improved the soil considerably. Weeded the patch between the currants & the strawberries, & applied lime. (Paid Titley 6d for about … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged cold, currants, double egg, egg total, eggs, frost, lime, marrows, pumpkins, soil, strawberries, sunny, Titley, weeding, winter greens | 3 Comments

30.3.40

Posted on 30 March by orwelldiaries

Nice spring weather. Sowed 1 row carrots. Finished weeding strawberries, & applied a little manure. Place for broad beans now about fit to sow. One or two daffodils opening in garden. Except for Innes’ meadow beyond the Lodge, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged Baldock, broad beans, carrots, daffodils, egg total, eggs, innes' meadow, lodge, manure, spring, strawberries, Wallington, weeding | 7 Comments

23.3.40

Posted on 23 March by orwelldiaries

About the first nice spring weather, except for a shower or two in the afternoon. Buds on bullace trees. 13 eggs. Total this week: 98.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged birds, bullace trees, egg total, eggs, shower, spring | 3 Comments

16.3.40

Posted on 16 March by orwelldiaries

Fairly fine day. The snow has now almost gone. 19 eggs. Total this week (5 days): 75.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged egg total, eggs, snow | 5 Comments

13.3.40

Posted on 13 March by orwelldiaries

Re-opening this diary after a long absence due to ‘flu etc. The day we left, 30.1.40, the roads were so completely snowed up that of the 31/2 miles to Baldock we were only able to do about 1/2 mile on … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged adco, Baldock, birds, blackcurrants, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carnations, compost, crocuses, cuttings, daffodils, egg total, eggs, flu, frost, gooseberries, grass, hare, leeks, peonies, polyanthi, recurrants, rhubarb, roads, rose, snow, snowdrops, soil, tulips, wallflowers, water-glass | 10 Comments

27.1.40

Posted on 27 January by orwelldiaries

No thaw. Last night distinctly milder, then heavy sloshy snow. Freezing very hard again this evening. Birds very hungry. A thrush hanging round the shed today, seemingly weak with hunger. 9 eggs. Total this week: 56. Sold 1 score @ … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged birds, egg total, eggs, frozen, shed, snow, thrush, weather | 3 Comments

20.1.40

Posted on 20 January by orwelldiaries

No thaw. They are now skating on the pool in the Warren. Potatoes brought in from the shed are frozen right through, with thick crust of ice under the skin. These were ones that were not covered up. Have not … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged egg total, eggs, frozen, ice, pool, potatoes, skating | 4 Comments

13.1.40

Posted on 13 January by orwelldiaries

Thawed a little in the sun in the afternoon, then freezing again. 4 eggs. Sold 1 score (presumably 3/4d). Total this week: 39.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged egg total, eggs, weather | 10 Comments