Monthly Archives: October 2009

28.10.39

Frost again last night (not so hard as before). All today raining almost continuously. Impossible to do anything out of doors. One double egg today. 6 eggs. Total this week 41.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged double egg, egg total, eggs, frost, raining, weather | 12 Comments

I think there must have been a slight frost again last night. Today about midday heavy rumbling sound which may have been either thunder or gunfire, & soon afterwards heavy sleety rain. More showers in the afternoon. Ground is very … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged eggs, frost, gunfire, shallots, showers, sleety rain, thunder, weather | 5 Comments

26.10.39

Posted on 26 October by orwelldiaries

A very sharp white frost last night, the first severe frost of the year. The day overcast with a short sunny interval, & rather cold. Water in the hen’s basin frozen solid this morning. Turned it, & this evening there … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged broad beans, broody hen, cold, compost heap, dahlias, eggs, flower garden, goldfinches, grass, haulm, ice, lime, loam, marrows, overcast, shallots, smallholder, sodium chlorate, turves, weather, white frost, wood ash | 4 Comments

25.10.39

Posted on 25 October by orwelldiaries

Fine, sunny, cold wind. Began clearing the vacant ground between the old garden & the new patch. Burnt a little of the rubbish. Limed another strip, also the rhubarb patch, but have not turned the lime in here. Collected the … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged beech, brown hen, dead leaves, eggs, hen-run, lime, old garden, rhubarb patch, rubbish, sunny, timber, weather | 4 Comments

24.10.39

Posted on 24 October by orwelldiaries

Evidently a good deal of rain last night. Today overcast, not cold, a few spots of rain in the afternoon. Leaves coming down pretty fast now. Today went into Baldock. Bought small sieve (2/-). Impossible to get iron stakes for … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged Baldock, barn owls, broad beans, brown owl, bulbs, eggs, elm tree, grass, hen-run, hens, karswood, overcast, rain, screech owls, shallots, shell-grit, spade, stakes, timber, weather | 4 Comments

23.10.39

Posted on 23 October by orwelldiaries

Not cold & fairly fine, but a few drops of drizzling rain in the evening. Cleaned out the piece between the rockery & the trellis, made a bed of sorts, planted 20 forget-me-nots in it, made a bed ready for … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple jelly, bed, drizzle, eggs, flowers, forget-me-nots, grass, phlox, rambler, rockery, snail, trellis, weather, worm | 6 Comments

22.10.39

Posted on 22 October by orwelldiaries

Very misty, not cold, a short spell of sun in the afternoon. No wind. Turned out & examined some of the bags of potatoes. Found that some K. Edwards had gone bad, but no Red Kings, or very few. Threw … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged aubretia, blenheim, cooking apples, eating apples, eggs, king edwards, lime, market, meetrop, mist, potatoes, pumpkin, red kings, savoy, sun, weather | 5 Comments

21.10.39

Posted on 21 October by orwelldiaries

Very fine, clear, still autumn weather, with a touch of mist. Distinctly chilly morning & evening. E., Lydia[1] & self picked 41/2lb. blackberries. Nuts seem to be already ripened & fallen. Oak trees now mostly yellow, hawthorn & ash leaves … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged ash, blackberries, chilly, egg total, eggs, Eileen, hawthorn, lydia jackson, mist, nuts, oak trees, weather | 3 Comments

20.10.39

Posted on 20 October by orwelldiaries

Fine, still, sunny but not particularly warm. Finished digging the rhubarb bed, prepared the frame for dead leaves, made up a little more of the path, grubbed up the last lot of French beans. T[itley]. cannot get any stakes so … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged dead leaves, eggs, fine, french beans, rhubarb bed, sunny, weather | 5 Comments

19.10.39

Posted on 19 October by orwelldiaries

Raining almost continuously till late evening. Impossible to do much out of doors. Dug a very little more of the rhubarb bed, cleaned up the remaining bit of the path, which however cannot be re-gravelled till I have got some … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple tree, blackberries, broad beans, chrysanthemums, cinders, coal, dahlia, dead leaves, eggs, elm trees, fruit bushes, fruit trees, garden, grass, hen-run, kitchen garden, lime, michaelmas daisies, naphthalene, owls, path, peonies, phloxes, polyantha, raining, rambler, rhubarb, rock salt, roses, shallots, strawberry bed, turf, weather, weed-killer | 5 Comments

Monthly Archives: October 2009

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