Elderberries Now Ripe

/ August 30, 1938

Tuesday August 30, 1938
[ Elsewhere, Eric Blair also keeps a diary. ]

Warmer.

Elderberries now ripe & bird-shit everywhere deep purple. Purple stains on logs etc. where they have been. Seems difficult to believe that birds digest much of what they eat.

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She makes blackberry jam with berries picked yesterday afternoon. There was only a little bit of purple bird-poop and purple stains. Her fingernails are stained.

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[Sidenote: Excerpt from George Orwell diary.
For full entry see Orwell diaries. ]