July 10
Posted by sydney on Jul 10th, 2009
- 1792: July 10, 1792 – Guns fire at Portsmouth.
- 1791: July 10, 1791 – Grapes swell. New potatoes.
- 1788: July 10, 1788 – There are now some fallow-deer, & a red deer in Hartely wood.
- 1785: July 10, 1785 – The spring in Kimber’s mead is dry; & also that in Conduit-wood; from whence in old time the Priory was supplyed with water by means of leaden pipes. The pond on the common is also empty. All the while Well-head is not much abated, nor the spring at the bottom of the church -litten closes, where you pass over the foot-bridge to the Lithe. Perserved cherries, & currans; & made curran-jelly. Not one mess of wood-strawberries brought this year.
- 1784: July 10, 1784 – The young cuckow gets fledge, & grows bigger than its nest. It is very fierce, & pugnacious.
- 1783: July 10, 1783 – About 8 o’clock on the evening of the 10th a great tempest arose in the S.W. which steered-off to the N.W.: another great storm went to the N.E. with continued thunder, & lightening. About 10 another still heavier tempest arose to the S.E. & divided, some part going for Bramshot & Headley, & Farnham, & the rest for Alresford, Basingstoke, &c. The lightening towards Farnham was prodigious. It sunk all away before midnight. Vast showers around us but none here.
- 1780: July 10, 1780 – Timothy eats voraciously; but picks out the hearts & stems of the Coss-lettuce, holding the outer leaves back with his feet.
- 1777: July 10, 1777 – A swarm of bees has hung-out in a torpid state for many days.
- 1776: July 10, 1776 – Some of the little frogs from the ponds stroll quite up the hill: they seem to spread in all directions.
- 1775: July 10, 1775 – Mushrooms begin to appear.
- 1773: July 10, 1773 – Wood strawberries begin to ripen. Hay makes well. Cock great part of the hay in very large cock. Many young bank-martins seem to be flown in the forest. The old ones carry dragon-flies into their nests to their young.
- 1772: July 10, 1772 – Woodstrawberries come. Rasps begin to ripen. Sprinking shower. Showers at a distance.
- 1771: July 10, 1771 – Vine begins to blow. Very late again! it blowed last year on July 17: usually blows the last week in June.
- 1770: July 10, 1770 – Very few apples or pears. Cherries hardly begin to turn. Wood straw berries turn.
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