georgeorwell
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Stuck a root of a wild briar in, experimentally, but not certain whether it will take as it had not much root.
1:27 AM Nov 26th
from Echofon
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Hard frost last night, which started about 4pm. Thawed this morning about 10 am, cold & miserable all day.
2:24 AM Nov 25th
from Echofon
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Rain again last night, light rain all day. Cold. Impossible to do much out of doors. Dug some more of the limed patch.
1:40 AM Nov 23rd
from Echofon
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A double egg again today & also an egg of the type the Smallholder describes as pimpled.
1:39 AM Nov 23rd
from Echofon
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Grain shortage (maize & dari). Former comes from the Argentine, latter was usu. imported ready ground. No shortage of wheat.
1:39 AM Nov 23rd
from Echofon
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8 eggs. Sold 8 @ 2d each (a mistake – price miscalculated).
3:13 AM Nov 20th
from Echofon
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Fine, still, reasonably warm. Planted 6 lupins (paid 9d), said to be mixed colours.
3:12 AM Nov 20th
from Echofon
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5 eggs. (Notice nearly always a bad lay after a wet day, as yesterday).
1:58 AM Nov 19th
from Echofon
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Winter time (deferred 2 months owning to the war) starts today, have to give the hens their evening meal about 3pm.
1:58 AM Nov 19th
from Echofon
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9 eggs. Sold 1 score @ 4/4. (According to Clarke’s the Gov.t are controlling the price at 4/-).
2:02 AM Nov 18th
from Echofon
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Saw a bird which I think must have been a golden plover, though so far as I know they are not found round here.
2:02 AM Nov 18th
from Echofon
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Most of the trees now completely bare. Few leaves still on the elms. Of the deciduous trees the ashes seem the last to go.
2:34 AM Nov 16th
from Echofon
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I think JamesonLewis3rd may be being sarcastic...
7:38 AM Nov 13th
from Echofon
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Cannot make sure whether when shallots spring out of the ground it is of their own accord or partly done by the pigeons.
7:38 AM Nov 13th
from Echofon
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Horse dung of some mares & their foals out in the fields is extremely dark, presumably for being out at grass with no corn.
3:12 AM Nov 11th
from Echofon
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Very fine weather, as yesterday. Birds all singing almost as though it were spring.
3:08 AM Nov 11th
from Echofon
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Made up some more of the path. Unable to do much else, as the wheelbarrow is about at its last & I was trying to repair it.
2:57 AM Nov 9th
from Echofon
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Started using chaff instead of straw for nesting-boxes. May be too expensive, but shd be easier to clean out & to rot down.
2:56 AM Nov 9th
from Echofon
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One of the gooseberry bushes I moved yesterday had layered itself. Evidently they do this spontaneously sometimes.
4:21 AM Nov 6th
from Echofon
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Transplanted the gooseberry bushes. Trust I haven’t damaged them.
2:30 PM Nov 5th
from Echofon
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