May 29
Posted by sydney on May 29th, 2009
- 1791: May 29, 1791 – The race of field-crickets, which burrowed in the short Lythe, & used to make such an agreeable, shrilling noise the summer long, seems to be extinct. The boys, I believe, found the method of probing their holes with the stalks of grasses, & so fetched them out, & destroyed them.
- 1788: May 29, 1788 – On this day there was a tempst of thunder & lightening at Lyndon in the County of Rutland, which was followed by a rain that lasted 24 hours. The rain that fell was 1 in 40 h.
- 1783: May 29, 1783 – Young redstarts.
- 1780: May 29, 1780 – The tortoise shunned the heat, it was so intense.
- 1776: May 29, 1776 – Laburnums in beautiful bloom. Hawthorns blow finely.
- 1775: May 29, 1775 – Grass on the common burnt very brown. Tulips decay. No dews for mowing in common.
- 1772: May 29, 1772 – Scarabaeus melolontha. Grasshopper-lark chirps.
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