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Tag Archives: Muriel
25.5.39.
Yesterday & the day before very warm. Today overcast, chilly enough to have a fire, & a few drops of rain. Got back[1] yesterday after nearly 3 weeks’ absence. Soil is very dry, weeds terrible except in kitchen garden. The … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, aubretia, bush roses, carnations, cheddar pinks, chicks, currants, double egg, egg total, flowers, forget-me-nots, gooseberries, hemlock, loganberries, mole, Muriel, nettles, pansies, peonies, saxifrage, sweet williams, tulips, vegetables, wallflowers, weather, weeds, yellow alyssum
7 Comments
19.4.39.
Clear, sunny & rather warm. Starlings have been courting for some days past, & flying about with straw in their beaks. One starling, presumably the male, sits on a bough erecting its neck feathers & making rapid clicking noises with … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged broody hens, eclipse, Muriel, nettles, peas, sitting-eggs, sodium chlorate, starlings, walnut trees, weather
5 Comments
16.4.39.
Rather chilly with sunny intervals, not much wind. A very light shower in the morning. Cowslips in flower here & there. This I think is rather early. Bluebells also beginning, a few almost in full bloom. This undoubtedly is unusually … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackbird, bluebells, church pond, cowslips, duckweed, Muriel, sycamore, thrush, weather, wild cherries
8 Comments
14.4.39.
Cloudy, & a few small showers. Cold after dark. Saw two swallows (not martins). This is rather early for this locality & a latish year. No one else has seen any. All day cleaning out strawberries, which have not been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken feed, chickens, Muriel, strawberries, swallow, wallflowers, weather
7 Comments