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17th Feb. 1949.  

A most perfect forenoon - like May - no wind, much sun & very mild;  cooler and more cloudy afternoon. 

Posted MSS. of long-tailed Aspilota notes to Hobbz for E.M.M.  First flower in Chionodoxa out under left drawing room window.  In afternoon took bus to Firhouse & walked across Dodder to Tymon Castle & back via Greenhills to 54 bus.  Saw squashed frog on road near Balrothery.

Privet hedge round front garden sprouting!


18th Feb. 
Cloudy with falling glass, S. wind, & rain at 2 P.M.  Rain all afternoon with increazing SW wind & glass still falling heavily at 4 P.M.  Daffodil (small single) out in garden in Kenilworth Park & Grape Hyacinths out in Macauley's front garden.

19th-20th. Feb. 
Showery, mainly fine, some sun, mild. 

21st Feb. 
Very mild & rain after 11 AM., with heavy sleat shower at noon.  Leaf-bud on Scott Vaccinium uliginosum in back garden.

22nd Feb. 
Gale from SW-W, milder, rain +/- all day & again at night.  Anemone appenina out in front garden.  2 frogs in back garden at 5.30 P.M.

23rd Feb. 
Dry, mainly dull, W. wind (light).  Blue Scilla (Mrs Odlum's) in front garden with first flower pushing up.  One red Mossy Saxifrage & 1 seedling white ditto with buds well up in front garden, near gate.


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23rd Feb. 1949, cont. 

In afternoon walked from Dartry to Classon's Bridge & up lane by Dodder to Milltown golf links & home by Orwell Bridge:  fine, dull, mild. 

Saw first bush of Forsythia in flower near links;  almonds now frequent in flower, a few daffodils here and there.  Alexanders in flower by footpath on hill down from Dartry to Classon's Bridge.  Saw about six Siskin on alder by the Dodder below "Meadowbank".


24th Feb. 
A fine dry day with rising glass - up to 30.5 - & much more in forenoon.  Spent morning in town & met amongst other people Miss Hensman - one of the original suffragettes & now "about 90" - with her bicycle, in Baggot St.  Her opening remark was "Name, please?".  Later she said "Then you agree with me that the wrong people are locked up!"  Still later she complained of the people who always wanted to help her & shrieked when she fell off the bicycle or fell when getting off it in a hurry in the traffic, remarking, "You know I often fall! but I have learned how to fall!!"  She was at one time in the Seed Testing, Dept. of Agriculture & is a great gardener.  Referring to modern times, one of her sayings is "what I say is that we must change our habits.  That's all!"