Month: June 2017

Tuesday 28 June 1664 Read the full diary entry by clicking on the date above ...Thence to the Mitre and there comes Dr. Burnett to us and Mr. Maes, but the meeting was chiefly to bring the Doctor and me together, and there I began to have his advice about my disease, and then invited him to my house: and I am resolved to put myself into his hands... My thoughts to myself as well as to anyone...

Monday 27 June 1664 Click above to read Pepys brief entry (business meetings) There are so many videos I would like to watch but there is scarcely time to do so never mind live a normal life and earn a living. There's about 20 hours of catch up TV on my Sky box. Anything on the commercial channels I record so I can flip through the dreadful advertisements which often have nothing to do with the...

Sunday 26 June 1664 Click above to read the diary. Mostly about Pepys enjoying himself - a thunderstorm - medical attitudes. Any trader will have a mixture of good, bad, and indifferent customers. I've had a couple in the last 24 hours. The first one was a charming and delightful couple, a potter and a musician who welcomed us warmly and gave us a cup of tea and told us what was required. there...

25 June 1664 Read Samuel Pepys Diary by clicking on the link above I wonder how many people you know who promise faithfully to do something and fail to do so. In India, it is impolite to say no to anybody and so even if you cannot do something that someone asks, you will try to find a friend to do so to honour the request. Timekeeping varies wildly from country to country. Famously, trains are...

Friday 24 June 1664 Read Pepys full diary entry by clicking on the link above ... After dinner to White Hall; and there met with Mr. Pierce, and he showed me the Queene’s bed-chamber, and her closett, where she had nothing but some pretty pious pictures, and books of devotion; and her holy water at her head as she sleeps, with her clock by her bed-side, wherein a lamp burns that tells her the...

23 June 1664 Click above to read his diary (mostly about money matters) I have been self-employed now for 50 years and have enjoyed most of it except when I ran a business without taking professional advice and inter alia allowed my credit card debt to spiral to £26,000. I realised that I had nothing to pay my debts with. This happened in the late 1970s when £26,000 was a considerable sum. I had...