19 April 1939
Edmund’s Daily List

Newspaper headlines from Hampshire Telegraph:

  • A Whirlwind Romance: Portsmouth Drama: Said Farewell and Gassed Herself
  • The Führer’s Birthday: Millions Celebrate Hitler’s 50th: Serenade by Black Guard Band
  • Temperance Queen Crowned: “My Pledge” Sung by 200
  • Royal Tour of Canada: Health Precaution: Staff Under Close Medical Supervision
  • Bank Clerk Still Missing: £25 Reward: Father Believes Memory Loss to Blame
  • Woman Killed in Husband’s Car: Negligent Drivers
  • Theft of Trousers: Two Boys Not to Associate: Others Discharged

Weather:

  • Annular solar eclipse, partial cloudiness

Observations: Wildlife in the Garden

  • A pair of mallards on the pond with twelve ducklings
  • Two moor hens
  • Buzzards
  • Cock pheasants
  • Angry green woodpecker
  • Magpies
  • Robins
  • Blackbird

Observations: Plants in the Garden

  • Quince in blossom
  • Apple blossom
  • Last vestiges of laurel flowers
  • Brambles in flower, blackberries to come
  • Almond blossom
  • Evergreen oak
  • Weeping willow out, always the first
  • Three medlars
  • Pussy willow
  • Walnut emerging, always last in leaf, and first to drop
  • Cherry blossom
  • Rosehips