Saturday, January 16, 1835

1836

January

Saturday 16

8 1/4

11 50/..

No kiss, but she is in pretty good sorts.

Dressed Ann’s back and had done all at 9 1/4, at which hour, F 32° sun shining and very frosty (hard frost) morning – Made breakfast –

Out 10 minutes with Robert Mann + 3 at the scale shifting – Bought a couple of nice chickens for 3/. of a man passing by and came in to breakfast at 9 25/.. –

Ann not quite in sorts at this, so after finding her not in talking humour, I shut up and said not another word, and she left me without speaking.  I must get the better or it will never do.  We shall have a try for it.  Her temper is a desperately disagreeable one, but I shall master it or get happily rid of her.

A few minutes with Marian – Then had Charles Howarth – Then wrote the above of today till 11 25/.. Then at accounts till went out at 12 3/4 –

Found the men, Robert Mann + 3, just beginning their work after dinner at cutting down stuff near Adney bridge (far side) and filling up the bridge and barrowing away the good stuff farther on in the wood against the road, throwing it over 3 large old tree-roots (firs) that we bedded in the bank to hold up stuff and give more breadth to the road – Planted 3 young beeches (in Wheatfield low corner against Park farm field), taken from where we cut down the bank about the bridge – Under the large beeches –

The men left off at about 4 3/4 – Took Robert Mann to see the trees I thought of moving from along the road upper side – He advises burr-walling 4 or 5 feet high or less and saving the trees – Told him to consider what he could move stuff for, from the front of the arched gateway to raise an embankment along the high road and block out the Stump-house –

Walked on the terrace some time and came in at 5 25/.. Dressed – Sat with Ann reading over the lease Samuel Washington had written out for Upper Hagstocks farm – Copied from Brooke’s lease (late Grieves’s Hipperholme) and not well managed.  Reversory interests kept in, as if the farm was in tail – Mentioned this to Ann –

Dinner at 6 1/4 – Coffee – It did Ann good, and she got into good sorts, and I petted her, and all went well –

1/2 hour with my father and Marian till 8 20/.. then Ann a few minutes with my aunt and I sat with her (my aunt) till 9 25/.., during which time skimmed over the newspaper – Then sat talking to Ann till 10 1/4 and then till 10 25/.., wrote the last 15 1/2 lines –

Very fine, hardfrosty day – F 35 1/2° now at 10 25/.. p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0162

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