Ice under people’s beds. Water bottles burst in chambers. Meat frozen. The fierce weather drove the snipes out of the moors of the forest up the streams towards the spring-heads. Many were shot round the village.
Carryed some savoy-heads, endive, & celeri into the cellar: the potatoes have been there some days. Red breasts die. Ground covered with ice & snow.
Ground so icy that people get frequent falls.
A fine yellow wagtail appears every day.
Hares make sad havock in the garden: they eat-up all the pinks; & now devour the winter cabbage-plants, the spinage, the parsley, the celeri, &c. As yet they do not touch the lettuces.
Planted 4 small spruce firs, & 2 Lombardy poplars in Baker’s hill; & one spruce fir in farmer Parsons’s garden.
Fetched some mulleins, foxgloves, & dwarf-laurels from the high-wood & hanger; & planted them in the garden.
Mowed some of the grass-walks! Farmer Lassam cuts some of his lambs: they are near a month old.
Some ivy-berries are near full grown: others, & often on the same twig, just out of bloom. Farmer Lassam has more than 20 young lambs: some fallen some days, near a fortnight.
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