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Tag Archives: spring
21.4.40
Sunny & warm. The first real spring day. Cowslips starting. Periwinkles out. Blossom forming on forget-me-nots. Still no cuckoo. E. sowed godetias & cornflowers. One or two of the peas (sown on 10.4.40) are showing, but no broad beans. 18 … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blossom, broad beans, cornflowers, cowslips, cuckoo, eggs, forget-me-nots, godetia, peas, periwinkles, spring, weather
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1.4.40[1]
Strong wind, which has dried the soil greatly, but beautiful spring weather in the morning. In the evening overcast, but no rain. Violets out in great numbers everywhere. Larks singing, the first I have heard this year, though most years … Continue reading
30.3.40
Nice spring weather. Sowed 1 row carrots. Finished weeding strawberries, & applied a little manure. Place for broad beans now about fit to sow. One or two daffodils opening in garden. Except for Innes’ meadow beyond the Lodge, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Baldock, broad beans, carrots, daffodils, egg total, eggs, innes' meadow, lodge, manure, spring, strawberries, Wallington, weeding
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24.3.40
Nice spring weather most of the day. Blackthorn just budding. Catkins & female flowers on the hawthorn. Found some frogs mating. In most places they have already spawned & some of the spawn is beginning to develop. Brought a few … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged anemones, blackthorn, catkins, eggs, frogs, hawthorn, Mrs Nicholls, polyanthi, primrose, spawn, spring, violets
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23.3.40
About the first nice spring weather, except for a shower or two in the afternoon. Buds on bullace trees. 13 eggs. Total this week: 98.
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