Month: November 2017

Today Pt 2 - art and  GUH hospital - the evils of sugar - witches Part one here. So as I mentioned in my previous, time for my macular examination. That's when the layers of the eye become unattached from the retina and produced lack of central vision though long distance vision is unaffected.   I could read all but the bottom two lines of the chart, so relief as I don't need an injection this...

Today - Bath Colourists' Exhibition in Bath - the ultimate germ collector Pepys Diary Tuesday 15 November 1664 ....I to the ‘Change, and thence Bagwell’s wife with much ado followed me through Moorfields to a blind alehouse, and there I did caress her and eat and drink, and many hard looks and sooth the poor wretch did give me, and I think verily was troubled at what I did, but at last after...

Monday 14 November 1664 ....So home (to his office), where infinite busy till 12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed... I imagine his housemaids had to wait up until Pepys came home in order to serve his supper. 'Overtime' was a concept not in vogue at the time, nor is it today in many countries.  Anyway I have lots to write about so off we go. ***** Today we had the second and final day...

Sunday 13 November 1664 (Lord’s day). This morning to church, where mighty sport, to hear our clerke sing out of tune, though his master sits by him that begins and keeps the tune aloud for the parish. Dined at home very well, and spent all the afternoon with my wife within doors, and getting a speech out of Hamlett, “To bee or not to bee,” without book. In the evening to sing psalms, and in...

Saturday 12 November 1664 Up, being frighted that Mr. Coventry was come to towne and now at the office, so I run down without eating or drinking or washing to the office and it proved my Lord Berkeley. Horrible to have that sinking feeling when you get up late. I once did that crossing America by plane with a friend and forgot to adjust my watch. I had an hour to catch the plane and return my...

Friday 11 November 1664 Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber at White Hall, to the Committee of the Lords for the Navy, where we were made to wait an houre or two before called in. In that time looking upon some books of heraldry of Sir Edward Walker’s making, which are very fine, there I observed the Duke of Monmouth’s armes are neatly done, and his title, “The...