October 26
Posted by sydney on Oct 26th, 2008
- 1792: – Hired two old labourers to house my cleft billet wood, which is still in a dam, cold condition, & should have been under cover some months ago, had the weather permitted.
- 1791: October 26, 1791 – No young martins to be seen in the nest, nor old ones around it.
- 1790: October 26, 1790 – This morning Rear Admiral Cornish, with six ships of the line, & two smaller ships of war, sailed from St. Hellen’s.
- 1789: October 26, 1789 – Bror Th. W. sows laburnum seed on the hanger, & down. A wood-cock killed in the high wood.
- 1788: October 26, 1788 – Some woodcocks shot on the Barnet lately.
- 1786: October 26, 1786 – Several wet, floated fields are now sown, that must have missed their wheat-crop, & have lain ’till spring, had not this fine dry season drained them, & rendered them fit for sowing.
- 1784: October 26, 1784 – Horses begin to lie within.
- 1783: October 26, 1783 – If a masterly lands-cape painter was to take our hanging woods in their autumnal colours, persons unacquainted with the country, would object to the strength & deepness of the tints, & would pronounce, at an exhibition, that they were heightened & shaded beyond nature. Wonderful & lovely to the Imagination are the colourings of our wood-land scapes at this season of the year!
“The pale descending year, yet pleasing still,/A gentler mood inspires; for now the leaf/Incessant rustles from the mournful grove,/Oft startling such as, studious, walk below,/And slowly circles thro’ the waving air./But should a quicker breeze amid the boughs/Sob, o’er the sky the leafy deluge streams;/Till chak’d & matted with the dreary shower,/The forest-walks, at every rising gale,Roll wide the wither’d wast, & whistle bleak.” — Thompson’s Autumn - 1781: October 26, 1781 – Men sow their wheat in absolute dust. Bro. T. and M. went away.
- 1780: October 26, 1780 – Planted two rows of small lettuces under the fruit-wall to stand the winter: the ground works very fine. The rows reach the whole length of the wall.
- 1774: – The air swarms with insects, & yet the hirundines have disappeared for some time: hence we may infer that want of food alone cannot be the motive that influences their departure. * many little insects, most of which seem to be tipulae continue still to sport & play about in the air, not only when the sun shines warm; but even in fog & gentle rain, & after sunset. They appear at times the winter thro’ in mild seasons; & even in frost & snow when the sun shines warm. They retire into trees, especially ever-greens.
- 1772: October 26, 1772 – Swallow appears still. Vast rains.
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