February 5
Posted by sydney on Feb 5th, 2009
- 1793: February 5, 1793 – Mrs. J. White set out for Kingston on Thames.
- 1791: February 5, 1791 – Thaw, sun, grey. Hot-bed heats.
- 1789: February 5, 1789 – As one of farmer Spencer’s cows was gamboling, & frisking about last summer on the edge of the short Lythe, she fell, & rolled over to the bottom. Yet so far was she from receiving any injury by this dangerous tumble, that she fattened very kindly, & being killed this spring proved fine beef.
- 1788: February 5, 1788 – A couple of woodcocks were given me.
- 1782: February 5, 1782 – Knee-holly, or butcher’s bloom, blows.
- 1775: February 5, 1775 – Helleborus viridis emerges out of the ground, budding for bloom. Laurustine blooms.
- 1774: February 5, 1774 – Frost, sun, yellow evening.
- 1773: February 5, 1773 – Primula vulgaris. Ground hard frozen.
- 1771: February 5, 1771 – Warm fog. Grey crows. Creeping mist over the meadows.