Day: 15 May 2017

This is part two of my daily diary for 15th May written in retrospect. I won't bore you with the minutae of a coach journey apart from saying that life's main pleasures are often quite ordinary and unexpected and that some people reading this may be prejudiced towards coaches as a means of long distance transport from A to B. I always travel National Express to London. It's not that I don't like...

Pepys Diary Saturday 14th May 1664 Up, full of pain, I believe by cold got yesterday. So to the office, where we sat, and after office home to dinner, being in extraordinary pain. After dinner my pain increasing I was forced to go to bed, and by and by my pain rose to be as great for an hour or two as ever I remember it was in any fit of the stone, both in the lower part of my belly and in my...