Monday 3 October 1664 Pepys business dealings - some inappropriate behaviour with women but all is made up. Pepys worried about time discipline and management matters. A garden client of mine rang me complaining that when she woke up there were two cows in her garden (on her lawn more specifically). This is a reminder as if we needed one that we are living in the country not a town. Cows are not...
Sunday 2 October 1664 .... My wife not being well to go to church I walked with my boy through the City, .....This evening came Mrs. Lane (now Martin) with her husband to desire my helpe about a place for him. It seems poor Mr. Daniel is dead of the Victualling Office, a place too good for this puppy to follow him in. But I did give him the best words I could, and so after drinking a glasse of...
Saturday 1 October 1664 local news from Samuel Pepys - brief mention of the war with Holland - click above to read as always. My ever reliable and trusted source of accurate information, Natural News, reports on a study by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, located at the University of Colorado, shows that sea ice extent has increased by 40% since 2012. Global Warming alarmists continue to...
Friday 30 September 1664 ....Up, and all day, both morning and afternoon, at my accounts, it being a great month, both for profit and layings out, the last being 89l. for kitchen and clothes for myself and wife, and a few extraordinaries for the house; and my profits, besides salary, 239l.; so that I have this weeke, notwithstanding great layings out, and preparations for laying out, which I...
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