Men tye their hops. Dressing some of the borders. Heavy thunderous clouds. Tulips blow. On this beautiful evening came all at once seven Swifts, which began to dash & play round the church. Chur-worm jars down at Dorton in swampy ground. Mrs Ben White, & her son Tom came from London.
Planted in the mead-garden eleven rows of potatoes; four of which were potatoes from Liverpool, sent to Dr Chandler by Mr Clarke. Planted in the mead four rows of beans.
The middle Bantam hen sits in the barn. Planted four rows of potatoes in the home garden.
Two nightingales within hearing: cuckoos come round the village.
A nest of young blackbirds destroyed by a cat in my garden.
Planted 4 rows of my own potatoes in the garden. Mowed the terrace walk.
Redstart appears. Daffodils are gone: mountain-snow-drops, & hyacinths in bloom; the latter very fine: fritillaries going. Vast flood at Whitney in Oxfordshire, on the Windrush.
Great bloom of cherries, pears, & plums.
A great thunder-storm at Woodstock, & Islip: the Charwel much flooded, & discoloured. No rain at Oxford. Prodigious was the damage done about the Kingdom on this day by storms of thunder, lightening, & vast torrents, & floods, & hail. The town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire was quite deluged, & the shops & sitting rooms filled with water. A house was burnt at some place; & in others many people hurt, & some killed.
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