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Tag Archives: pigeon
9.5.39.
Young pigeon in nest outside hospital window.
20.2.39
Wallflowers (good specimens) are blooming at the café near here. Pomegranate trees just putting forth their buds, which are brilliant red. Weeds pretty thick everywhere. This is probably as green as the country ever gets, but there are still considerable … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged flies, heat, pigeon, ploughing, pomegranates, storks, Taddert, wallflowers, weeds
15 Comments
29.12.38
Two eggs. Clear & fine. We have got a cock-pigeon (Frs. 4.50) & put him in the cage with the hen to get acquainted. She started pecking his head gently, I think picking out lice.
24.12.38
Four eggs. Both the pigeons eggs broken – do not know how, possibly a cat tried to get up to the nest & scared the bird off. Evidently fertile eggs as they were streaked with blood. Clear & fine.
23.12.38
The pigeon has laid two eggs & is sitting on them. Cold & fine. The Oued Tensift has shrunk to about twice its original size. Three eggs.
22.12.38
Three eggs. Finer in the morning, rain in the afternoon. The surviving pigeon (presumably the hen) is sitting on a nest. Do not know whether it can survive, but possibly we may be able to get another cock for it. … Continue reading
21.12.38
Two eggs. Finer, cool, a few spots of rain. One of the pigeons is dead – cause unknown.
25.10.38
Much cooler. Yesterday overcast & cool all day, with occasional sharp showers. Violent wind & storms of rain in the night. Fire last night & this morning, not absolutely necessary but acceptable. The brown goat, besides being very difficult to … Continue reading
September 3, 1938
Writing on the P. & O. ss. “Stratheden”, 23, 500 tons. No of passenger’s berths 1063. Left Tilbury dock* 6pm yesterday. Position marked this morning (not certain whether 8 am or noon) as 49.25 N, 3.34 W, run being 288 … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Bay of Biscay, bunting, ferry, fish, P & 0, pigeon, pilchards, sardines, sea, Tilbury dock, Ushant
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