Day: 6 May 2017

Most of our beneficial interactions are unplanned and unintended. You just turn up to an event, not knowing a single soul, and then you meet someone you have something in common with. This was indeed the case in the Mendip Society ramble or walk which was on the Somerset levels on this occasion. We spotted it in the "Mendip Times" in the morning and it sounded good so we thought, why not? Due...

Thursday 5th May 1664. here is an extract from Samuel Pepys's diary... So home to dinner, and to the office, where all the afternoon, and thence betimes home, my eyes beginning every day to grow less and less able to bear with long reading or writing, though it be by daylight; which I never observed till now. We read of extraordinary health conditions where someone has walked around with an...