January 9

Posted by sydney on Jan 9th, 2009
  • 1790: January 9, 1790 – Water-cresses come in.
  • 1789: January 9, 1789 – The farmers are in pain about their turnips, both those on the ground, & those that are stacked under hedges.  The people at Forestside drive all their cattle to be watered at a spring issuing out at Temple grounds at the foot of Temple hanger.  Oakhanger ponds, & Cranmer ponds are dry.  The frost has lasted now just seven weeks: it began Novr 23.  T. Turner has sunk his well 9 feet without coming to water.  He now desists on account of the expence.  My well, I now find, has more than three feet of water; but the rope is too short to reach it.
  • 1788: January 9, 1788 – Mr Churton left us & went to Waverly.
  • 1786: January 9, 1786 – Mr Churton left us.
  • 1784: January 9, 1784 – A grey crow shot near the village.  This is only the third that I ever saw in this parish.  Some wild-geese in the village down the stream.
  • 1782: January 9, 1782 – The wind blowed-down the rain-measurer.  Wells rise very fast, & are now up to their usual pitch.
  • 1774: January 9, 1774 – Rain for 24 hours: vast flood.  Could not get along down at the pond all day.
  • 1772: January 9, 1772 – Snow on the ground, & thick ice.
  • 1771: January 9, 1771 – Frost comes within doors.  Thermometer within 28, in the wine vault 43 1/2, abroad 24.
  • 1770: January 9, 1770 – Cocks crow much.  The sky promises for fall.
  • 1769: January 9, 1769 – The bunting, emberiza alba, appears in great flocks about Bradley.  Linnets congregate in vast flocks, & make a kind of singing as they sit on trees.  Rooks resort to their nest-trees.  Hepaticas, winter-aconite, wall-flowers, daiseys, polyanths, black hellebores blow.  Wheat looks well on ye downs.
  • 1768: January 9, 1768 – Lambs begin to fall.  Nothing frozen in my cellar.  Titmice pull straws from the eaves.

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