Month: September 2017

Wednesday 7 September 1664 ..Lay long to-day, pleasantly discoursing with my wife about the dinner we are to have for the Joyces, a day or two hence... An account of our recent guest experience follows but before that an account of a radio programme that I caught by chance while driving. PowerPoint was developed in the 1980's when the originators Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin realised in the...

Tuesday 6 September 1664 Pepys buys a rabbit that he subsequently discovers to be 'deadly old' but eats it never-the-less. Today we went with a friend for a walk along the local canal which as my readers will know I find to be the quickest way of getting back to the 19th century. This is a weekday after school holidays are over and the whole gives a different feel. I found a rather endearing map...

Monday 5 September 1664 Up and to St. James’s, and there did our business with the Duke; where all our discourse of warr in the highest measure. Prince Rupert was with us; who is fitting himself to go to sea in the Heneretta. And afterwards in White Hall I met him and Mr. Gray, and he spoke to me, and in other discourse, says he, “God damn me, I can answer but for one ship, and in that I will do...

Saturday 3 September 1664 I have had a bad night’s rest to-night, not sleeping well, as my wife observed, and once or twice she did wake me, and I thought myself to be mightily bit with fleas, and in the morning she chid her mayds for not looking the fleas a-days. But, when I rose, I found that it is only the change of the weather from hot to cold, which, as I was two winters ago, do stop my...

Friday 2 September 1664 ..I took a great deal of pains this morning in the thorough understanding hereof, and hope that I know the truth of our case, though it be but bad, yet better than to run spending money and all to no purpose. However, I will inquire a little more... Pepys had a difference with his father over a debt and I rather admire his painstaking effort to make sure the other party...

Part 2 of my Diary for Saturday 2nd September 2017. For many years now I have had a great respect for the Glastonbury brand and it was quite a shock, albeit a nice one, to see that this place is actually a working farm with real live animals and all that goes with it. How they manage to put all this aside and accommodate 200,000 people is a mystery to me. No wonder it takes so long to get from...