Mr Richardson’s garden abounds with fruit, which ripens a fortnight before mine. His kitchen-crops are good, tho’ the soil is so light & sandy. Sandy soil much better for garden-crops than chalky.
The foliage on most trees this year is bad. Vast damage this day by lightening in many counties!! Great thunder-shower at Lymington, & in the New forest, & in Wilts, & Dorest, & at Birmingham, & Edinburg.
Thatched the hay-rick. Mr & Mrs Brown & Niece Anne Barker left me. Tremendous thunder-storms in Oxford-shire & Cambridge-shire!
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