May 3

Posted by sydney on May 3rd, 2009
  • 1793: May 3, 1793 – Timothy eats.  A pair of Missel-thrushes have made a nest in the apple-tree near the fruit-wall.  One young half-fledged was found in the garden.
  • 1791: May 3, 1791 – Dark & harsh.
  • 1788: May 3, 1788 – Men cart peat & chalk.  The deepest roads are quite dry.
  • 1786: May 13, 1786 – Made the annual-bed for a large three-light frame with 3 loads of dung.
  • 1785: May 3, 1785 – Blanchard & Miss Simonet ascended.
  • 1784: May 3, 1784 – Earthed the annual beds.  Set up a copper-vane (arrow) on the brew-house.  Goody Hampton came to work in the garden for the summer.  Timothy the tortoise weighs 6ae 13 oun.; he weighed at first coming out last year only 6ae 11 1/4 oun.  He ate this morning the heart of a lettuce.
  • 1783: May 3, 1783 – Honey-suckles against the walls begin to blow.  Early tulips blown-out: late begin to turn colour.
  • 1779: May 3, 1779 – Shower of snow.  The snow lay but a small time.  Began to turn my horses into my field lain down last year with rye-grass & dutch-clover.  Wheat looks wretchedly.
  • 1775: May 3, 1775 – One swift at Bramshot; one at Selborne.  At Blackburn in Lancashire swallows first seen April 15; swifts April 28; house-martins May 4th.  Cuckow sings April 28; laughing wren sings Apr. 17.  Several ponds are dry.
  • 1774: May 3, 1774 – White-throat returns & whistles.
  • 1772: May 3, 1772 – Regulus non crist: major: Shaking its wings it makes at intervals a sibilous noise on the tops of the tallest beeches.
  • 1771: May 3, 1771 – The turtle-dove returns & cooes.  Sowed white cucumbers under a hand-glass.
  • 1769: May 3, 1769 – Mackrels cryed in the streets.  Asparagus falls to 4s per hundred.  Apricots, small green.

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