Monday 25 March 1839

A sprinkling of snow just perceptible on the ground - at 6 1/2 and highish wind and small driving snow afterwards

Read last night's paper and looked into Grecian and Roman Antiquities Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia volume 1 till breakfast at 8 40/60 in about 1/2 hour

And then with Robert the joiner and then stood looking about in the hall and on the gallery till 10 - then went out

Ann rode off sometime before to the school to measure the children for their frocks &c. for midsummer

Took Sam Booth into the hall-wood to get up fine young oaks and beeches to plant on the embankment in front of the Lodge gates and along the high road between the back Lodge road to opposite the terrace-turret

Had Jack Green helping Sam in the afternoon - he came to us at 1 40/60 and I kept him till 6 1/2 - I out all the time from 10 to 6 1/2 in spite of the frequent showers - looking about  while Sam got his dinner (from 12 to 1) George Naylor joiner came down to the hall at 1 1/2 for old oak (2 pieces - one 9 feet 6 long and ..... and the other ...)

Messrs. Holt and the Lowmoor engineer met at Listerwick this morning - tried the engine - the pumping as on Saturday but the pulling apparatus too stiff to go - unusable

Came in at 6 1/2 - dictated note which Ann wrote to Mrs Rawson

Dressed - dinner at 7 5/60 - went into the cellar for a bottle of burgundy the second, we have had of our Quillacq-Calais stock - poor Ann having had no wine yesterday or Saturday determined to tempt her today - she read French - coffee

She gave me Booth's measurement of baring just done by Robert Mann at Hipperholme Lane ends quarry = 635 1/3 yards and Booth's estimate of 2 cottages to be built up against the boiler house at Listerwick = £178.18.4 - this must be looked into

Had just written the above of today (except the 1st. 4 1/2 lines) at 10 55/60 p.m. very windy showery wild day - Fahrenheit 42 1/2 and 36 1/2 outside at 11 20/60 p.m.

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/23/0008

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