Month: May 2017

Monday 16 May 1664 Forced to rise because of going to the Duke to St. James’s, where we did our usual business, and thence by invitation to Mr. Pierces the chyrurgeon, where I saw his wife, whom I had not seen in many months before. She holds her complexion still, but in everything else, even in this her new house and the best rooms in it, and her closet which her husband with some vainglory...

Sunday 15 May 1664 (Lord’s day). Rose, and as I had intended without reference to this pain, took physique, and it wrought well with me, my wife lying from me to-night, the first time she did in the same house ever since we were married, I think (unless while my father was in town, that he lay with me). She took physique also to-day, and both of our physiques wrought well, so we passed our time...

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...

Pepys diary for 13th May 1664 Folks,  this entry is far too long for me to include here so if you want the full version please visit here Today: Never was the sound of rain so sweet as it was last night. It rained upon us for a least two hours. I've now awake, quite late for me, at 8 AM to find a cloudless blue sky albeit with a rather chilly wind. Today we must finish a gardening job and the...

It's the time of year when wild garlic flowers grow in multitudinous numbers at the side of the road. You grab them, stuff them in your mouth and chew them and how delicious they are. This is the second part of my diary regarding today's events. The first part I finished this morning. We visited Kilmersdon's annual plant fair which is normally held on a Saturday in May. by coincidence it was...