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Sept 21st. Harvest is nearly finished. Weather cool & unsettled. Been to Brid market. Pigs very scarce. Nice trade. Store lambs slow trade.
26th L.S.A. practice. Nos.  1, 6 &  9 received long service medals.
20 years service.
29th. Steam trawler ‘Rhodolite’ ashore near Weather Castle but was refloated on the next tide. The services of the L.S.A. Coy were not required & the company were not called out.
26th. Sowing wheat. Land damp. Weather unsettled.
Nov 12th. New Wesleyan chapel opened to day. Nice day.
14th. Saw three flocks of wild geese about four hundred in all.
Weather frosty & cold. Started sheep on turnips.
25th. Big gale. Frosty very cold.
27th. Big gale. High tides. Lot of firewood on the beach.
28th. Snowstorm, cold. 29th. Snowshowers.
30th. Roads blocked. Snowcutters at work. Ship reported ashore but could not be found by Coastguard & L.S.A. 1.
Dec 7th. Still very cold, frosty & unpleasant.Mr Greenlaw has come to Mr Watsons as hind. This is the only change among married men. Farm men have had two weeks holiday instead of one.
Christmas Eve. Several inches of snow, very cold & frosty. Wind North. 
30th. Thunderstorm. High wind. 31st. Raining.

 

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