October 29

Posted by sydney on Oct 29th, 2008
  • 1792: October 29, 1792 – Finished piling my wood: housed the bavins; fallows very wet.
  • 1791: October 29, 1791 – The young martins remain.
  • 1790: October 29, 1790 – Dug & cleansed the border in the orchard, & planted it with polyanths slipped-out.
  • 1788: October 29, 1788 – Meridian line & dial accord well.
  • 1787: October 29, 1787 – About four o’clock this afternoon a flight of house-martins appeared suddenly over my house, & continued feeding for half an hour & then withdrew. Some thought that there were swallows among them.
  • 1785: October 29, 1785 – Snow lies on the hay-cocks in Baker’s hill!
  • 1784: October 29, 1784 – Foliage turns very dusky: the colour of the woods & hangers appears very strange, & what men, not acquainted with the country, would call very unnatural.
  • 1783: October 29, 1783 – Tortoise begins to bury himself in the laurel-hedge.
  • 1781: October 29, 1781 – From the scantiness of the grass I have given for sometime 9 d pr pd. for butter; a price here not know before.
  • 1780: October 29, 1780 – Men put their hogs up a fatting.  Timothy the tortoise, who in May last, after fasting all the winter, weighed only 6 pds. & four ounces: & in Aug. when full feed weighed 6 pds. & 15 ounces: weighs now 6 pds. 9 oun. & 1/2: & so he did last Oct. at Ringmer.  Thus his weight fluctuates, according as he fasts or abstains.
  • 1778: October 29, 1778 – The bat is out.  Beetles hum.
  • 1776: October 29, 1776 – Grey crows return.  These are winter birds of passage, & are never seen with us in the summer.  The flocks are feeding down the green wheat on the downs, which is very forward, & matted on the ground.  They sow wheat on the downs sometimes as soon as the end of July provided the season is not showery.
  • 1775: October 29, 1775 – Redwings on the hawthorns.  Bat appears.
  • 1772: October 29, 1772 – Vast quantities of rain has fallen lately.
  • 1770: October 29, 1770 – Trees carry their leaves well for the season.
  • 1769: October 29, 1769 – North lights every evening.  Six martins appeared flying under ye hanger.  Thunder & lightening with vast rain.
  • 1768: October 29, 1768 – Grapes are very good, but decay apace.

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