Month: October 2017

Timing is all – when trustees go bad – meetings

Monday 24 October 1664 ... and though not very well yet up late about the Fishery business, wherein I hope to give an account how I find the Collections to have been managed, which I did finish to my great content... A long entry from Pepys today (click the date above to read) mostly about business dealings. I remember a BBC reporter once saying that he could not work unless he was given a...

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The genre of garden centres- Congresbury being one such

Sunday 23 October 1664 ..(Lord’s day). Up and to church. At noon comes unexpected Mr. Fuller, the minister, and dines with me, and also I had invited Mr. Cooper with one I judge come from sea, and he and I spent the whole afternoon together, he teaching me some things in understanding of plates. .. I admire Pepys's public acknowledgement and lack of pride saying that he learned from someone...

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Neither a lender or a borrower be

Saturday 22 October 1664 ... At noon comes my uncle Thomas and his daughter Mary about getting me to pay them the 30l. due now, but payable in law to her husband. I did give them the best answer I could, and so parted, they not desiring to stay to dinner... This reminds me of the importance of clarity with any form of financial transaction, business or private, especially the latter. I would say...

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The F*** word, The A*** word, The S*** word

Friday 21 October 1664 ..but most I doubt his not lending my Lord money, and Mr. Moore’s reporting what his answer was I doubt in the worst manner. But, however, a very unworthy rogue he is, and, therefore, let him go for one good for nothing, though wise to the height above most men I converse with. In the evening (W. Howe being gone) comes Mr. Martin, to trouble me again to get him a...

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Celebrating my namesake in Portland

Thursday 20 October 1664 Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon my uncle Thomas came, dined with me, and received some money of me. Then I to my office, where I took in with me Bagwell’s wife, and there I caressed her, and find her every day more and more coming with good words and promises of getting her husband a place, which I will do. We cannot accuse Samuel P of being...

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Bed time – a movable feast? – Storm – garden safety

Wednesday 19 October 1664 ... To supper and to bed, my wife coming in by and by, which though I know there was no hurt in it; I do not like... So who feels sleepy at the same time of the evening for the same reasons? Our circadian rhythms are seldom the same. I know of couples who retreat into separate beds or even in different rooms so they can get a good night's sleep. It does not mean that...

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