October 23
Posted by sydney on Oct 23rd, 2008
- 1792: October 23, 1792 – Dr Bingham & family left Selborne.
- 1789: October 23, 1789 – The quantity of haws is prodigious!
- 1788: October 23, 1788 – Much peat carried thro’ the village.
- 1787: October 23, 1787 – The number of partridges remains very great. Pheasants do not abound.
- 1786: – Red-wings are late this autumn. Perhaps the vintage was late this year in Germany; so that these birds were detained by the grapes, which they did not wish to exchange for our hips & haws. Red-wings do much damage in vineyards, when the grapes are ripe. My tall hedges, & the hanging woods, do not shew their usual beautiful tints & colours: the reason is because the foliage was so much torn & shattered by the rain & tempests.
- 1783: – The poor make quite a second harvest by gathering of acorns. Timothy Turner has purchased upwards of 40 bushels. Two truflers came with their dogs to hunt our hangers, & beechen woods in search of truffles; several of which they found in the deep narrow part of the hill between coney-croft-hanger, & the high wood; & again on each side of the hollow road up the high-wood, known by the name of coach-road.
- 1782: – My brother’s children & plantations strangely grown in two years. On the downs the green wheat looked very chearful & pleasant. Some wheat & turnips covered with charlock in full bloom. This proves, it seems, but a poor trufle-year at Fyfield; so they fail some times in very wet years, as well as in very dry ones.
- 1781: October 23, 1781 – Farmer Eaves of Old-place fetches his water from Well-head. Jupiter is now very low in the S.W. at sunset.
- 1779: October 23, 1779 – Whitings, & herrings. timothy, the old tortoise at this house, weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces & an half averdupoise. It weighed last year, Oct. 2, and ounce & an half more. But perhaps the abstemious life that it lives a this season may have reduced it’s bulk: for tortoises seem to eat nothing for some weeks before they lay-up. However this enquiry shews, that these reptiles do not, as some have imagined, continue to grow as long as they live. This poor being has been very torpid for some time; but it does not usually retire under ground ’til the middle of next month.
- 1774: – Snipes begin to quit the moors, & to come up into the wet fallows.
- 1772: October 23, 1772 – The martins about. Glow-worms shine.
- 1771: October 23, 1771 – Sprinkling rain & rumbling wind.
- 1768: October 23, 1768 – Fallows in a sad, wet, weedy condition: scarce any wheat sown.
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