Month: July 2017

Tuesday 5 July 1664 click to read in full. Mainly about business Time for my monthly visit to the hospital for my eye check up. My left eye has deteriorated so an injection was prescribed. Lying on your back and having a needle stuck in your eye is not intrinsically pleasant but the doctor who does these injections does their very best to make the patients feel at ease. I in my turn do my best...

Monday 4 July 1664 ....and very much  and at home find my wife this day of her owne accord to have lain out 25s. upon a pair of pendantes for her eares, which did vex me and brought both me and her to very high and very foule words from her to me, such as trouble me to think she should have in her mouth, and reflecting upon our old differences, which I hate to have remembered. I vowed to breake...

Sunday 3 July 1664 ... Then up and spent the evening walking with my wife talking, and it thundering and lightning all the evening, and this yeare have had the most of thunder and lightning they say of any in man’s memory, and so it is, it seems, in France and everywhere else... Thunder and lightning we are not having. Rather, a beautiful day just ideal for gardening. Gardening for other people...

People coming from big cities should understand that the way of communication is different in the country. I know it's an obvious thing to say but word-of-mouth is the way it's done and the smaller the town or village, the more important word-of-mouth is. I did a little tour today because I had a meeting to give advice to a man who had taken over the running of some allotments in Stoke St...

Saturday 2 July 1664 Pepys diary here To say that I'm a fan of Lidl, or 'Lidlers' as we are collectively dubbed is an understatement. I cannot resist going along every Monday and Thursday to see what special offers pertain. The people who order must be mind readers because as soon as my old item wears out, lo! and behold there is a replacement. Last week there was a particularly tempting ad. for...

1st July 1664 Pepys Diary ...By and by comes Dr. Burnett, who assures me that I have an ulcer either in the kidneys or bladder, for my water, which he saw yesterday, he is sure the sediment is not slime gathered by heat, but is a direct pusse. He did write me down some direction what to do for it, but not with the satisfaction I expected.... I'm amazed how phlegmatic people of this age appear to...