December 21
Posted by sydney on Dec 21st, 2008
- 1791: December 21, 1791 – Dark & cold, frost.
- 1787: December 21, 1787 – Shortest day. Pleasant weather. A hunted hind came down Galley-hill into the street; where being headed by the village dogs, it turned back to Well-head, & was taken in Kircher’s farm yard, & put into the barn, being quite run down. One of the Gent. pursuers let it blood, & hired a man to watch it all night. in the morning by seven o’ the clock a deer-cart came, & took it away. There were several Gent. in with the dogs, when they took the deer. The dogs & hind were said to belong to Mr Delmee, who lives near Fareham. The deer was turned-out in the morning on Stevens Castle down near Bishop’s Waltham, which is at least 18 miles from this place. The dogs were short & thick, but had shrill notes like fox-hounds, & when they ran hard opened but seldom, so that they made but little cry.
- 1785: December 21, 1785 – Planted 20 Scotch-firs round Benham’s orchard.
- 1781: December 21, 1781 – Furze is in bloom. Several young lambs at the Priory. Shortest day.
- 1778: December 21, 1778 – Vast flocks of fieldfares. Are these prognostic of hard weather?
- 1776: December 21, 1776 – The shortest day: a truly black, & dismal one.
- 1775: December 21, 1775 – People fall with colds. Dry weather for near three weeks, ’til the ground was very free from water.
- 1771: December 21, 1771 – Storm, rain & hail, thunder.
- 1770: December 21, 1770 – Musca tenax does not die as winter comes on, but lays itself up.
- 1768: December 21, 1768 – Rooks feed earnestly in ye stubbles. Red-breast sings.
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