My Somerset Life

Tuesday 4 October 1664 ....and thence home, where I found my aunt James and the two she joyces. They dined and were merry with us. Thence after dinner to a play, to see “The Generall;” which is so dull and so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

And now - Fresh from watching VerStappen win the Malaysian Grand Prix F1 one day after his 20th birthday - to complete yesterday's events with a discussion on the Somerset Rural Life Museum After the high octane -...

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...

Wednesday 28 September 1664 .. he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of “The Generall,” my Lord Orrery’s (Broghill) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more...

Tuesday 27 September 1664 To-night Mr. T. Trice and Piggot came to see me, and desire my going down to Brampton Court, where for Piggot’s sake, for whom it is necessary, I should go, I would be glad to go, and will,...

Monday 26 September 1664 ....So I have looked a little too much after Tangier and the Fishery, and that in the sight of Mr. Coventry, but I have good reason to love myself for serving Tangier, for it is one of the best...

There are few things I enjoy more than talking to artists and looking at works of art though I do not have formal art training. I believe and try to live out the ideal that we are all mobile art installations,...

Sunday 25 September 1664 (Lord’s day). Up, and my throat being yet very sore, and, my head out of order, we went not to church, but I spent all the morning reading of “The Madd Lovers,” a very good play, and at noon...