January 23
Posted by sydney on Jan 23rd, 2009
- 1792: January 23, 1792 – Water-cresses come in.
- 1788: January 23, 1788 – Dan Wheeler plants his field with beans.
- 1785: January 23, 1785 – Boys play on the Plestor at marbles, & peg-top. Thrushes sing in the coppices. Thrushes & blackbirds are much reduced.
- 1780: January 23, 1780 – Vast rime on the trees all day. The naked turnips suffer, especially where the fields incline to the sun: they are frozen, & then thawed, & so rot. Those farmers are best off this winter, who pulled their turnips, & stacked them up in buildings, & under hedges. Lambs fall very fast.
- 1776: January 23, 1776 – Therm: in London areas 20. The ground covered with snow & everything frozen up.
- 1772: January 23, 1772 – A gentle thaw all day: leaves drip all day.
- 1770: January 23, 1770 – Scarabaeus stercorarius. Saw a bird which I suspected to be an Aberdevine, or siskin: it was the passer torquatus, or reed sparrow. Woodlark, great titmouse, chaffinch sing. Blackbird whistles. Woodlark sings in the air before daybreak. Thrush sings. Missel-bird sings.
Theme Ported to