March 31
Posted by sydney on Mar 31st, 2009
- 1792: March 31, 1792 – Mrs Chandler was brought to bed of a daughter.
- 1791: March 31, 1791 – Made two hand-glasses for celeri. A gross-beak seen at Newton parsonage-house.
- 1790: March 31, 1790 – When h. crickets are out, & running about in a room in the night, if surprised by a candle, they give two or three shill notes, as it were a signal to their fellows, that they may escape to their crannies & lurking-holes to avoid danger.
- 1789: March 31, 1789 – Sowed a crop of onions, lettuce, & radishes.
- 1788: March 31, 1788 – Mr. Loveday’s tortoise is come-out. Young goslins.
- 1787: March 31, 1787 – Turner shoots the chaffinches. Mackarals come. Bantam-hen lays. Black & grey snails without shells.
- 1783: March 31, 1783 – The cellars almost dry by pumping.
- 1782: March 31, 1782 – The earth is glutted with water.
- 1778: March 31, 1778 – Three or four bank-martins were seen over Oakhanger-pond. Flies abound in the pastry-cooks shops.
- 1776: March 31, 1776 – The willows in bloom diversify the coppices, & hedge-rows in a beautiful manner.
- 1775: March 31, 1775 – Birds eat ivy-berries, which now begin to ripen: they are of great service to the winged race at this season, since most other berries ripen in the autumn. The shell-less snails, called slugs, are in motion all the winter in mild weather, & commit great depredations on garden-plants, & much injure the green wheat, the loss of which is imputed to earth-worms; while the shelled snail, does not come forth at all ’til about April the tenth; and not only lays itself up pretty early in the autumn, in places secure from frost; but also throws-out round the mouth of it’s shell a thick operculum formed from it’s own saliva; so that it is perfectly secured, & corked-up as it were, from all inclemencies. Why the naked slug should be so much more able to endure cold than it’s housed congener, I cannot pretend to say.
- 1771: March 31, 1771 – The face of the earth naked to a surprising degree. Wheat hardly to be seen, & no signs of any grass: turneps all gone, & sheep in a starving way. All provisions rising in price. Farmers cannot sow for want of rain.
- 1770: March 31, 1770 – Turkey & duck lay. Goose sits.
- 1769: March 31, 1769 – Small flights of snow.
- 1768: March 31, 1768 – Black weather. Cucumber fruit swells. Rooks sit. This day the dry weather has lasted a month.