May 6, 1788
Posted by sydney on May 6th, 1788
The wood-lark sings in the air at three in the morning: stone curlews pass over the village at that hour.
May 5, 1788
Posted by sydney on May 5th, 1788
The great oak in the mead abounds with male bloom.
May 4, 1788
Posted by sydney on May 4th, 1788
Shade the best tulips from the vehemence of the sun. Polyanths are hurried out of bloom. Vine-shoots are forward. Sowed the great annual-frame with flower-seeds: sowed two hand-glasses with cucumbers, green & white. Timothy wanders round the garden, & strives to get out: he is shut-up in the brew-house to prevent an escape.
May 3, 1788
Posted by sydney on May 3rd, 1788
Men cart peat & chalk. The deepest roads are quite dry.
May 1, 1788
Posted by sydney on May 1st, 1788
Mrs Ben White was brought to bed of a boy, who encreases my nephews, & nieces to the number of 52. Bror Thos Wh. tulips from South Lambeth make a gaudy appearance. The bloom of cherries, pears, & apples is great; of plums, bullace, sloes, little. Currans promise for much fruit, gooseberries for little. Peaches & nectarines are set: cherries begin to eat.
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