12.8.46
Not so fine as yesterday. A few showers, & looks as though it would be wet tonight. Applied sodium chlorate to some of the rushes. On one patch applied at the same rate as for the nettles, ie. 1 lb to a gallon & about 1 gallon to 10 sq. yards, & on another tried the experiment of scattering the sodium chlorate dry, trusting to the rain to wash it in.
Wind in west.
Yesterday saw another fawn-coloured rabbit (baby one.) Put away half dozen of the cured rabbit skins in a drawer, considering that they had dried sufficiently. Shall put moth balls with them, & see what they look like next year. One would, I think, only get on average an oblong of 8” by 4” or 4” inches out of each pelt, so that one would need about 100 to make a good bed rug. On the other hand about 4 or perhaps 6 should make a pair of bedroom slippers.
An extract from the “domestic” diary George Orwell kept while staying at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, Argyllshire (at other times, he also kept a diary in which he reported on current affairs). Orwell wrote about Victorian diaries in a 1944 review, which we also shared recently.
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