March 9, 1791
Posted by sydney on Mar 9th, 1791
Tapped the new hay-rick: the hay but moderate.
March 7, 1791
Posted by sydney on Mar 7th, 1791
Coltsfoot blows. Stopped cucumbers. Sowed dwarf lark-spurs. Turned the dung.
March 5, 1791
Posted by sydney on Mar 5th, 1791
Boys play at hop-scotch, & cricket. Some snow under hedges. The wry-neck returns, & pipes.
March 3, 1791
Posted by sydney on Mar 3rd, 1791
Sent me by Lord Stawell a Sea-mall, or Gull, & a Coccothraustes, or Gross-beak: the latter is seldom seen in England, & only in the winter.
March 2, 1791
Posted by sydney on Mar 2nd, 1791
Seven cart-loads of hot dung carried in for the cucumber-bed: 5 loads from Hale, 1 from Parsons, & 1 of my own.
February 27, 1791
Posted by sydney on Feb 27th, 1791
Snow covers the ground. A large bough broken from the yew-tree, in the church yard, by the snow.
February 26, 1791
Posted by sydney on Feb 26th, 1791
Deep snow, which damaged & broke my plum-trees, & hedges. This is much the greatest snow that we have seen this year. Some of the deep lanes are hardly passable.
February 25, 1791
Posted by sydney on Feb 25th, 1791
Mr Edmd White took down my Barometer, & cleaned tube, & frame. It had not been meddled with for just 18 years, when my Bror John also took it down.
February 23, 1791
Posted by sydney on Feb 23rd, 1791
The farmers are very much behind in their plowings for a spring crop thro’ the wetness of the season.
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