Monday 18 July 1836

No kiss

Read prayers to Ann and had written the last 11 lines of last night at 8 20/60 a.m. at which hour F53 1/2 and fine but cold morning – the sun just out

Went down to Charles Howarth at 8 20/60 – pulling up the wrong railing – had to reset it there round the top corner of the cidevant paddock – then with Wood + 3 at the pool they had made a road for the Northgate cart-way along the embankment where Robert had thrown up the soil to the top of the wall and destroyed the cart-way

Breakfast at 9 1/2 in about an hour - gave Ann the 1st. volume of Echard’s Roman History to begin to read it and said 10 pages a day. She said her French as of late very common while I finish my breakfast

Out again about 10 1/2 – sent Wood + 3 to Whiskum quarry to get stone – my own cart and the whole afternoon 4 loads, and then four Northgate soil carts each one time brought the stone down this afternoon – Samuel Booth and Jack Green digging out phaeton house cellar in the morning at the quarry in the afternoon

With Ann 1/2 hour and walked with her about the same time from 1 to 2 – just after breakfast spoke to Mrs Briggs – said I had determined not to leave house at present I very civil – Mrs Briggs very civil. She is to go on Thursday will do anything she can for us – come back if we want her

Mark Hepworth here today and the 4 Northgate carts a little gravel chiefly soil, here again today the 1st. time for I know not how long sent off by John Booth between 10 and 11 a.m. my letter to Mr Braithwaite vide line 9 from the bottom of the last page, all the day backwards and forwards at the pool – and near an hour at Whiskum quarry this afternoon

David and Amos cut out today the space for and put in the stone frame of the upper window in the joiners shop – the window frame came from James Greenwood’s house at Coney – still too windy today also to finish the chimney at the Lodge.

Dinner at 6 20/60 – coffee – sat talking till after 9 – then had John above an hour in the Low Kitchen chamber firing the little gun – putting it a new flint in time tried the gunpowder he bought this morning – he got me a percussion pistol too this morning but it was too late to try it tonight. I fired one of my brass pistols with powder only (twice in the low Kitchen chamber)

Finish day – high wind and cold – short flying showers in the afternoon – F48 1/2, at 10 25/60 p.m. wrote the above of today till 10 40/60. Robert Mann not here today – not quite so well as yesterday.  

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/19/0077

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