…In the forenoon our late servant went home and we made her a present of a handkerchief, value 13½d, for her trouble of coming over. We dined on the remains of Sunday’s dinner with the addition of a pearl barley pudding. Mr John Hammond and his wife and son and Sarah Inkpin drank tea at our house. At home all day. Thomas Davy at our house in the evening. Thank God very busy all day. In the evening read part of the London and Universal Magazines for March. A remarkable shower of hail today between 12 and 1 o’clock, which I imagine continued 40 minutes. The hail was very large and came so fast that it lodged on the ground as it were like snow.