January 29

Posted by sydney on Jan 29th, 2009
  • 1791: January 29, 1791 – Three gallons of brandy from London.
  • 1789: January 29, 1789 – Bantam-hens make a pleasant little note, expressive of a propensity towards laying.  Fog so deep that we could not see the alcove in the garden.
  • 1788: January 29, 1788 – Rover sprung two brace of pheasants in the long coppice.
  • 1784: January 29, 1784 – The dung & litter freeze under the horses in the stable.  The hares nibble off the buds of the espalier-pear-trees.
  • 1779: January 29, 1779 – Out of the wind there is frost; but none where the S. wind blows.
  • 1776: January 29, 1776 – An intense frost usually befalls in Jan: our Saxon fore-fathers call’d that month with no small propriety wolf-month; because the severe weather brought down those ravenous beasts out of the woods among the villages.
  • 1774: January 29, 1774 – Snow-drop, wolfs bane, helleborus foetidus blow. Gnats appear.  Beetles buz in the evening.
  • 1773: January 29, 1773 – Vast halo round the moon.
  • 1772: January 29, 1772 – Thermor. abroad before sun rise at 11.  Bright sun.
  • 1770: January 29, 1770 – Corylus avellana.  masc: fem.

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