January 9
Posted by sydney on Jan 9th, 2009
- 1790: January 9, 1790 – Water-cresses come in.
- 1789: January 9, 1789 – The farmers are in pain about their turnips, both those on the ground, & those that are stacked under hedges. The people at Forestside drive all their cattle to be watered at a spring issuing out at Temple grounds at the foot of Temple hanger. Oakhanger ponds, & Cranmer ponds are dry. The frost has lasted now just seven weeks: it began Novr 23. T. Turner has sunk his well 9 feet without coming to water. He now desists on account of the expence. My well, I now find, has more than three feet of water; but the rope is too short to reach it.
- 1788: January 9, 1788 – Mr Churton left us & went to Waverly.
- 1786: January 9, 1786 – Mr Churton left us.
- 1784: January 9, 1784 – A grey crow shot near the village. This is only the third that I ever saw in this parish. Some wild-geese in the village down the stream.
- 1782: January 9, 1782 – The wind blowed-down the rain-measurer. Wells rise very fast, & are now up to their usual pitch.
- 1774: January 9, 1774 – Rain for 24 hours: vast flood. Could not get along down at the pond all day.
- 1772: January 9, 1772 – Snow on the ground, & thick ice.
- 1771: January 9, 1771 – Frost comes within doors. Thermometer within 28, in the wine vault 43 1/2, abroad 24.
- 1770: January 9, 1770 – Cocks crow much. The sky promises for fall.
- 1769: January 9, 1769 – The bunting, emberiza alba, appears in great flocks about Bradley. Linnets congregate in vast flocks, & make a kind of singing as they sit on trees. Rooks resort to their nest-trees. Hepaticas, winter-aconite, wall-flowers, daiseys, polyanths, black hellebores blow. Wheat looks well on ye downs.
- 1768: January 9, 1768 – Lambs begin to fall. Nothing frozen in my cellar. Titmice pull straws from the eaves.
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