Friday, October 9, 1835

1835

October

Friday 9

7 25/..

12

No kiss

Ready in an hour. Rainy morning. F 50 3/4° at 8 1/2 a.m., at which hour, went out –

Found Robert Mann and his 3 men in the joiner’s shop – Too rainy to work out of doors – Did not know if it would be right to go home – Got them to pull up and puddle the drain under the Cascade bridge –

Got wet in going with Frank along the new approach road – Changed my pelisse – Breakfast at 9 10/.. –

Out again before 10 with the men under the bridge – A gleam at 10 1/2 for 1/4 hour – then rain again – In despair of the day and said the men might go home –

Long talk with Robert Mann – Mawson does not sell much ale – Many respectable people will not go because of the fiddling (my waller Richard – fiddler so every night it is a great disturbance) – and the ale so bad Robert half dead after a pint or 2 the other night that Mawson gave him on finishing the reservoir – Sure Mawson cannot make the rent of it – I expressed my sorrow –

Robert thinks he can get me a baring at Whiskum quarry done at 2 1/2 pence a yard to throw down when the stone has been got – Settled that Robert and his men to go and get stone this afternoon –

About 12, went to Frank and Mark Hepworth mending the new road – 2 of Mark’s one horse carts kept to job for me (no ordering of mine) in spite of the rain – Sent them home, the drain along the road filled up – Tried in vain to find the communication with it and the Godley road causeway drain –

Left Frank and Mark at 1 1/4 to get their dinner and I went to Whiskum quarry – Found Richard and Jagger and Jack who had worked for me , now one of the fillers at Northgate (Mawson's 3 men) and Robert Mann and his 3 at work – Stood by them a couple of hours till they got up a great deal of heavy stone, working very hard –

Then went to ask George Naylor about getting the stone down to the hall about tackling – 1 stone, 3 tons weight –

Met with Mark Town at Barraclough cottage and he kept me a very long while – He could not get me to say anything but that though my way of doing up the place would have been far better than his and not more expensive, I should be satisfied if Mark himself was so – I should stick to the bargain – Pay all the bills and charge 5 per cent on the whole sum laid out –

Then saw George Naylor – Cannot manage about the tackling –

Returned to the quarry – Nelson to be asked for blocks and Mr. James Greenwood (beyond Haley hill) for a 3 legs –

Home at 6 – met Mr. Husband at the gate – He seemed quite pleased with a model he had made in clay of the manner in which he would dress up the Cascade bridge ground about the water –

Began to rain heavily again.  Came in at 6 1/4 – Dressed – Wrote note to Mrs. Carter of Giles house offering leave for the funeral of her husband to pass along the Crow Nest road to Wyke tomorrow. Ann enclosed her note under cover to Mr. Washington, desiring him to take it himself to Mrs. Carter tomorrow morning early – Sent it by George at 7 who was afterwards to go to the post –

Dinner at 7 – Coffee – A little while with my father and Marian – Then wrote all the above of today till 9 20/..

Very rainy morning till noon – Afterwards fair and fine till a little after 6, then a rainy evening –

1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 5/.. Then read the newspaper downstairs with Ann and came up to bed at 11 5/.., at which hour F 51°

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0109 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0110