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Tag Archives: onions
22.1.41
——- [1] is convinced, perhaps rightly, that the danger of the People’s Convention [2] racket is much underestimated and that one must fight back and not ignore it. He says that thousands of simple-minded people are taken in by the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged alarm clock, blitz, Daily Express, Daily Worker, Dean of Canterbury, Hewlett Johnson, onions, People's Convention, posters, racketeering, Tobruk
11 Comments
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
29.3.40
Sowed onions (3 rows Jas. [Long] Keeping). 2 oz. seed suppose to do 200 feet but only did about 100, no doubt because I sowed too thick. Today cold, overcast & windy, with some rain in the afternoon. 17 eggs.
Posted in Domestic
Tagged cold, eggs, james longkeeping, onions, overcast, rain, seed, wind
3 Comments
27.3.40
Finer. Still impossible to sow seeds. Dug a little more, applied wood-ash to bed for onions. Tadpoles now almost fully formed & beginning to wriggle their tails. 16 eggs. Sold 1 score @ 2/10.
12.1.40
Appeared to stop freezing for about an hour in the afternoon, otherwise no thaw. Still & sunny. Poultry manure frozen hard & easy to break up, so scattered a patch with this, which can be dug in[1] later. This patch … Continue reading
10.10.39
Very still, warm & fairly sunny. A very few spots of rain in the evening. Ground greatly sodden, & a lot of chrysanthemums loosened by the wind. Dug trench for broad beans but cannot yet get the ground into sowing … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackberry jelly, broad beans, chrysanthemums, clay, eggs, henhouse, manure, onions, rain, runner beans, sand, walnuts, weather, wood ash
15 Comments
4.10.39
Rather cold, violent wind. Picked up the first ripe walnuts today. There are very few, however. Spread the manure. Hoed leeks. Spring cabbages have not taken root very well, owing to the drought. Uprooted the onions, which are very poor. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple ginger, drought, eggs, leeks, manure, onions, spring cabbages, walnuts, weather
3 Comments
11.9.39
Somewhat less warm, overcast, a very few drops of rain about dark. Last night’s rain had made no difference to the soil. Weeded out the onions. These will be ready to pick in 2-3 weeks, but are not good. Applied … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bullace, damsons, eggs, fowl, jam, onions, potatoes, sodium chlorate, sussex, swallows, walnut tree, weather
5 Comments
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
20.8.39.
Hot in the morning. Then thunder & heavy showers. Raining hard tonight. Goats greatly terrified by the thunder, & M. managed to break loose from her chain. Pinched out growing point of pumpkin. Gave onions their final thinning out. First … Continue reading
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