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Well, this was indeed a special morning. I have been half-halfheartedly looking around for years for a church which I can actually relate to. I need a decent standard of preaching, not too long or pompous , an informal atmosphere and above all not conventional and - for the cream on the cake - a tad eccentric. I'm glad to say that at this early stage I seem to have found the place for me....

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...

Thursday 10 November 1664 Up, and not finding my things ready, I was so angry with Besse as to bid my wife for good and all to bid her provide herself a place, for though she be very good-natured, she hath no care nor memory of her business at all. Such a minor thing as staff training was not part of Pepys management style. You were either up to the mark or for whatever reason not up to it in...

Thursday 6 October 1664 ... her niece came and dined with me to a rare chine of beefe and spent the afternoon very pleasantly all the afternoon, ... and then home to supper and to bed, my mind coming to itself in following of my business. Was Pepys, a busy man and rarely free of suffering in his body, wasting his time when he had a 'to do' list more convoluted than most people of his time? For...

Wednesday 5 October 1664 A long discourse from Pepys - So to Trinity House, and there I dined among the old dull fellows, and so home and to my office a while, and then comes Mr. Cocker to see me, and I discoursed with him about his writing and ability of sight, and how I shall do to get some glasse or other to helpe my eyes by candlelight; and he tells me he will bring me the helps he hath...

Thursday 29 September 1664 ...Coming home to-night, I did go to examine my wife’s house accounts, and finding things that seemed somewhat doubtful, I was angry though she did make it pretty plain, but confessed that when she do misse a sum, she do add something to other things to make it, and, upon my being very angry, she do protest she will here lay up something for herself to buy her a...