Posted by sydney on Jun 23rd, 2009
  • 1791: June 23, 1791 – Went to visit Mr Edmund Woods Senr. Swifts abound at Godlaming.
  • 1789: June 23, 1789 – Scarlet strawberries are cried about at six pence the pottle: they are not finely flavoured.
  • 1787: June 23, 1787 – Brood of nightingales frequents the walks. The number of swifts are few, because they are stopped-out from the eaves of the church, which were repaired last autumn. The nest of a
    Flusher, or red-backed Butcher-bird was found near Alton. Pease, barley, & oats look well, especially the first, which show fine bloom: wheat looks but poorly. What at market rises. Sheep are washed.
  • 1782: June 23, 1782 – Jupiter makes, & has made for some weeks past a beautiful & resplendent appearance every evening to the S.E. Saturn, who is very near, is much obscured by the brilliancy of the former. The sun at setting shines along the hanger in these long days, & tinges the stems of the tall beeches of a golden colour in a most picturesque, & amusing manner!! Just at the summer solstice the sun at setting shines directly up my broad walk against the urn, & tall fir. Fox-gloves, thistles, butterfly-orchids, blow in the high wood. In the garden roses, corn-flags, Iris’s red valerian, lychniss’s, &c. blow.
  • 1780: June 23, 1780 – Swifts stay-out ’til a quarter before nine o’ the clock.
  • 1779: June 23, 1779 – Golden-crowned wrens, & creepers bring-out their broods.
  • 1778: June 23, 1778 – Began to cut my meadow. A good crop, especially where the ground was dunged.
  • 1774: June 23, 1774 – Nightingales very jealous of their young: & make a jarring harsh noise if you approach them.
  • 1772: June 23, 1772 – A brood of swallows, flyers, appear for the first time. Cut great part of the great meadow.
  • 1771: June 23, 1771 – Dark & cold, sun, clouds.
  • 1770: June 23, 1770 – Wheat is very backward: hardly any ears appear. It is worthy of notice that on my clayey soil horses prefer the grass that grows on a sand-walk, tho’ shaded & dripped by a tall hedge, to that which springs from the natural ground in a sunny and open situation.
  • 1769: June 23, 1769 – Thistles begin to blow. Young wheat-ears, birds so called.

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