May 18

Posted by sydney on May 18th, 2009
  • 1793: May 18, 1793 – A man brought me a large trout weighing three pounds, which he found in the waste current at the tail of Bins pond, in water so shallow that it could not get back again to the Selborne stream. Made rhubarb tarts, & a rhubarb pudding, which was very good.
  • 1792: May 18, 1792 – The fern-owl, or eve-jarr is heard to chatter in the hanger.  So punctual are they!
  • 1789: May 18, 1789 – Very blowing all day.
  • 1788: May 18, 1788 – A thunder-storm at London that damaged houses.
  • 1787: May 18, 1787 – Leaf-cabbages very fine.  Spinage good.
  • 1786: May 18, 1786 – Dandelions are going out of bloom; & now the pastures look yellow with the Ranunculus bulbosus, butter cups.
  • 1785: May 18, 1785 – My wall-nut trees seem much injured by the fros.  The laurels shoot at the bottom of the boughs.  Sycomores are injured.  Chafers swarm about Oakhanger, & on the chalky soils, but not with us on the clays.
  • 1780: May 18, 1780 – Filed-crickets in their pupa-state lie-out before their holes.  Magpies tear the missel-thrushes nest to pieces, & swallow the eggs.
  • 1778: May 18, 1778 – The wind damages the flowers, & beats-off the blossoms from the apple & pear-trees.
  • 1775: May 18, 1775 – Ponds fail.  Watered away hogsheads on the garden, which is burnt to powder.
  • 1774: May 18, 1774 – Thinned the apricots & took off a large basket of fruit.
  • 1773: May 18, 1773 – Ground very wet.  Nightingale sings.
  • 1771: May 18, 1771 – Began to cut grass for the horses.  The side-fly on horses.  Mole-cricket churs in the moist meadows.
  • 1768: May 18, 1768 – Young wood-larks come forth.  My apple trees are but poorly blown.

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