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Tag Archives: rain
27.4.40
Rain during last night, fine & fairly warm during the morning, some showers this evening. Wild plum tree has plenty of blossom on it. Saw large flock, about 100, of what appeared to be turtle doves, sitting on telephone wires. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged antirrhinums, blossom, dandelions, dead nettle, eggs, rain, sodium chlorate, stocks, turtle doves, weather, wild plum
2 Comments
23.4.40
Still, overcast & warm. A very few drops of rain in the afternoon. Tulips, forgetmenots° & wallflowers coming out. Fruits forming on currants & gooseberries. Plum & pear blossom full out (very late – about 3 weeks later than ordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blossom, cauliflowers, currants, eggs, field beans, forget-me-nots, gooseberries, nests, pear, plum, rain, rooks, tulips, wallflowers, weather
3 Comments
19.4.40
Evidently fairly heavy rain again last night. This morning overcast, the afternoon still, sunny, & fairly warm. This evening rain again, but more like April showers that the previous rain. Saw the first swallow this afternoon (two. The one I … Continue reading
18.4.40
Violent wind & horribly cold most of day. In the afternoon about an hour’s heavy rain, after which it is warmer & more still. Narcissi are out. Wild thyme out. Daffs beginning to go off a little. Sowed sweet peas, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Canterbury bells, clarkia, daffodils, eggs, narcissi, phlox, rain, roses, sunflowers, sweet peas, weather, wild thyme, wind
3 Comments
15.4.40
Seems to have been a little rain last night. Today very variable weather. Most of day windy, some sunshine but not very warm, a few spots of rain. Then in the afternoon a few flakes of sleet & afterwards about … Continue reading
12.4.40
Evidently a little rain in the night, but it had dried up by the afternoon. Gathered sticks for dwarf m. daisies. Prepared a place to sow canary creeper (about 10 days hence), burnt up a little rubbish, gave wallflowers liquid … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackbird, bluebells, canary creeper, celandines, eggs, liquid manure, michaelmas daisies, potato, primroses, rain, rubbish, violets, wallflowers, wood pigeon
7 Comments
10.4.40
A very few drops of rain last night. Today cold & windy. Sowed peas (next lot to be sown about 25th). 17 eggs. Sold 1 score @ 2/-, 1 score @ 2/6 (? milkman).
4.4.40
Thin drizzle early this morning, then sunny & windy, rain for about 2 hours in the middle of the day, then again sunny & windy. Dug some more. Soil is extremely soggy. Applied the nitrate of potash to leeks & … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged drizzle, eggs, fir-cones, leeks, milkman, Mr Hatchett, nitrate of potash, rain, shallotts, soil, sun, sunflower, walnut tree, wind
4 Comments
3.4.40
Seems to have rained fairly heavily during last night. Light drizzle all this morning. Fine most of the afternoon. Sowed artichokes on the new patch, which is very stony but probably good enough for this purpose. This used 7 lb., … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, bullace, drizzle, eggs, marrow-bed, pigeons, rain, weeding
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
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