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Nov. & December 1946.

Mostly very wet weather & impossible to do any natural history work, so all our outings consisted of short walks on the roads. No real cold spells, but several nights frost between the wet spells, & some nice clear sunny days. 

Paul Helweg Jespersen came to stay for a week (from Copenhagen) to discuss Helix nemoralis & see my bred series of this snail, but proved more interested in getting himself an outfit of clothes, as the Danes had been very badly off for woollen goods, &c., during the war. 

George came home on 2nd Dec. - "demobbed" from R.A.F. & stayed over Xmas before going north to a new, temporary, job under Northern Government, in Belfast. 

Petasites fragrans at Templeogue Bridge out about beginning of December (exact date not noted) the only nat. hist. event of this period.

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January
The year opened just as 1946 went out, with floods of rain, mainly cold, intermixed with mild sunny days, during which Thrasher & Mirth Thrasher commenced to sing generally & by 10th January many singing. Our first Snowdrop in flower on 10th January, but others also under drawing room window only just showing their noses above ground - probably due to Daisy having "disturbed" them when clipping the plot in Oct.  [[left margin]] No! Exactly same happened the following year when first flowered on 13th. Jan. & the others scarcely aboveground. [[/left margin]] Crocusses all well up & one bud showing yellow in first week of January, but no further on on 10th. Daffodil & Hyacinth leaves showing in both front & back gardens. Daphne blaggiana [[blagayana]] in back garden almost in flower [but did not flower until April! AWS]

Many reports of Waxwings in Gt Britain during December & a few from Ireland (Wicklow, Dublin, Cork & Mayo) on 10th received a p.c. in museum from Miss M.E. Stokes, 54 York Road, Kingstown, saying that 6-7 had been in her garden for 

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