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Tag Archives: goats
17.9.39
Windy. Sacked the potatoes, evidently about 300 lb. Gave the sprouting broccoli some wood ash. Arranged to dispose of the goats. Picked about 2 lb. blackberries. 6 eggs.
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackberries, eggs, goats, potatoes, sprouting broccoli, weather, wood ash
20 Comments
14.9.39
Overcast, a little drizzling rain, but fairly warm. Finished digging the patch next the tomatoes. Lifted the first row of Red King as the whole of that patch needs liming & it is simpler to lift the potatoes at once. … Continue reading
5.9.39
Have not been able to keep up the diary owing to travelling to & fro, dislocation caused by the war etc. The weather has been mainly hot & still. On the night of 2.9.39 a tremendous thunderstorm which went on … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, bergamot, bullaces, carnations, carrots, dahlias, damsons, eggs, flowers, goats, grass, hens, hollyhocks, larkspurs, lettuces, marigolds, marrows, michaelmas daisies, milk, onions, peas, phloxes, potatoes, pumpkin, roes, runner beans, sweet williams, thunderstorm, turnips, wallflowers, Wallington, war, weather, weeds, winter vegetables
5 Comments
20.7.39.
Some sun in the morning, otherwise almost continuous rain all day. Impossible to do anything outside. Notice that hens always eat less in this weather. Top of hay under a few stacks is still dry in spite of the constant … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, Daily Telegraph, electricity consumption, goats, hay stacks, weather
6 Comments
12.7.39.
Hot. Madonna lilies out. Bedstraw, mallows & knapweed in flower. Robin’s pincushions on briars. Goats will not eat cake every time so shall give it them about once a week. 12 eggs. Sold 1½ score @2/8.
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bedstraw, cotton cake, goats, knapweed, Madonna lilies, mallows, Robin's pincusions
1 Comment
11.7.[1]39.
Warm but not very sunny. Pricked out 90 wallflowers (flame). T. [2] thinks the lame pullet may have “the disease” (presumably coccidiosis) in which case it would be better to kill her. The infallible symptom is yellow dung, but apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, goats, Kate, lame pullet, milk-yield, stawberries, wallflowers, weather
1 Comment
9.7.39.
Warm, no rain. The little apple tree (grenadier pippin)[a] so weighted down with apples that we are obliged to support the branches. Kate[1] is unwell, refused food this evening & was sick, or threw up her cud. Muriel also somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple tree, Canterbury bells, crab apples, goats, Kate, loganberries, Muriel, newt tadpoles, rambler rose, red currants, weather, wild cherries, wood pigeons
1 Comment
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
24.6.39.
[On 24 June Orwell went to Southwold to be with his father, who was very ill. Richard Blair died of cancer of the rectum on 28 June. Orwell was by his bedside. He returned to Wallington on 30 June. From … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Albertine rose, bush roses, egg total, goats, potatoes, scabious, wildflowers
4 Comments
16.12.38
Two eggs. Fine & cool. Domestic animals here eat almost anything. Donkeys eating old dried-up vegetable marrow leaves off a rubbish heap. Cows, goats & sheep being fed on waste leaves from crown artichokes. Notice that when goats & sheep … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged animal feed, cows, dead donkey, donkeys, eggs, goats, hawk, hawk pellet, insects, oranges, sheep, snake
26 Comments
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