June 29
Posted by sydney on Jun 29th, 2009
- 1792: June 29, 1792 – Straw-berries from the woods are brought; but they are crude, & pale, as might be expected. Cut-off the large leaves of the Colchicum, or meadow-saffron, now decaying: towards the end of August the blossoms, called by some naked boys, will shoot out, & make a pleasing appearance.
- 1791: June 29, 1791 – S. Lambeth
Some swallows in this district, & only two pairs of swifts, & no martins. No wonder then that they are overrun with flies, which swarm in the summer months, & destroy their grapes. - 1789: June 29, 1789 – Marrow-fat pease come in.
- 1787: June 29, 1787 – Gracious street pond dry, & cleaned out. Much water in the pond on the hill. The pond at Faringdon dry.
- 1785: June 29, 1785 – Distant thunder. The storm arose in the S. & parted; so that we had only the skirts. When thunder arises in the S. we hardly ever receive the storm over us, because the clouds part to the right, & left before they reach us, influenced, I suppose, bu the hills that lie to that quarter. The walnut-trees throw-out shoots two or three feet below the extremities of the boughs; all above is dead.
- 1784: June 29, 1784 – Mr & Mrs Richardson came.
- 1783: June 29, 1783 – My garden is in high beauty, glowing with a variety of solstitial flowers. A person lately found a young cuckow in a small nest built in a beechen shrub at the upper end of the bostal. By watching in a morning, he soon saw the young bird fed by a pair of hedge-sparrows. The cuckow is but half-fledge; yet the nest will hardly contain him: for his wings hang out, & his tail & body are much compressed, & streightened. When looked at he opens a very red, wide mouth, & heaves himself up; using contorsions with his neck by way of menace, & picking at a person’s finger, if he advances it towards him.
- 1782: June 29, 1782 – Louring, with cool gale, sun, mist on the hills, golden stripe in the W. Double catchflies make a lovely show.
- 1780: June 29, 1780 – Jane White was married to Mr Clement
- 1775: June 29, 1775 – Young minute frogs migrate from the ponds this showery weather, & fill the lanes and paths: they are quite black.
- 1774: June 29, 1774 – Some swallows this day bring out their broods, which are perchers: they place them on rails that go across a stream, & so take their food up & down the river, feeding their young in exact rotation.
- 1772: June 29, 1772 – Light showers, not enough to lay the dust, chilly. Stachys germanica.
- 1771: June 29, 1771 – Ricked in two summer-cocks five jobbs of St foin in most curious order. Young martins hatched. Apples, & pears but few. Titlark whistles still.
- 1770: June 29, 1770 – A pound of trufles were found by a trufle-hunter in my Brother’s grove.
- 1768: June 29, 1768 – Ricked my St foin in good order. The ears of wheat in general are very long. Wheat blows still.
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