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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