January 1

Posted by sydney on Jan 1st, 2009
  • 1791: January 1, 1791 – Many horse-beans sprang up in my field-walks in the autumn, & are now grown to a considerable height.  As the Ewel was in beans last summer, it is most likely that these seeds came from thence; but the distance is too considerable for them to have been conveyed by mice.  It is most probably therefore that they were brought by birds, & in particular, by jays & pies, who seem to have hid them among the grass, & moss, & then to have forgotten where they had stowed them.  Some pease are also growing in the same situation, & probably under the same circumstances.  Mr Derham has recorded that mice hide acorns one by one in pastures in the autumn; & that he has observed them to be hunted-out by swine, who discovered them by their smell.
  • 1790: January 1, 1790 – Frost, ice, sun, pleasant, moon-light.  The hounds found a leash of hares on the hill.
  • 1789: January 1, 1789 – Snow thick on the ground.  Timothy begins to sink his well at the malt-house.
  • 1788: January 1, 1788 – Contracted my great parlor chimney by placing stone-jams on the top of the grate on each side, & building brick-work on the jams as high as the work-man could reach.  This expedient has entirely cured the smoking, & given the chimney a draught equal to that in the old parlor.
  • 1785: January 1, 1785 – Much snow on the ground.  Ponds frozen-up & almost dry.  Moles work: cocks crow.  Ground soft under the snow.  No field-fares seen; no wag-tails.  Ever-greens miserably scorched; even ivy, in warm aspects.
  • 1782: January 1, 1782 – Winter aconites blow.
  • 1780: January 1, 1780 – Ice is very thick.
  • 1779: January 1, 1779 – Storm all night.  The may-pole is blown down.  Thatch & tiles damaged.  Great damage is done both by sea and land.
  • 1778: January 1, 1778 – Fires are made every day in my new parlour: the walls sweat much.
  • 1777: January 1, 1777 – Steady frost, snow on the ground.
  • 1774: January 1, 1774 – Larks congregate.
  • 1769: January 1, 1769 – Nuthatch chatters.  It chatters as it flies.

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