Thursday 20 December 1660

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• N vincent on Sat 20 Dec 2003, 11:36pm

  On the 13th “she who must who must obeyed” has up and**** .
  “…Troubled with the absence of my wife….”
  then he is just saying nowt, I do believe he is in the dumps. A week of watching the white wash and gilding [the lily]and it appears he is not even telling the diary what’s up. SP’s keeping mum about this work, no gory details, [ who is a paying - Bills?]except he keeps a beady eye on the work; 7 days now. No morning draugh ?, not even a mention of the boys , or {bbc version of fun and games}
  Veddy Veddy strange?

• N Mary on Sun 21 Dec 2003, 08:45am

  “Her indoors”

  Lady Batten kept Elizabeth with her at Woolwich for the nights of 11th and 12th December. On 13th December both women returned home. This was the same day on which the workmen arrived; they arrived in the morning and the two women got safely home about midday. Why should Pepys be ‘down in the dumps’? He’s just trying to ensure that all the decorating is done before Christmas and this is uppermost in his mind. Distracting, certainly, but not depressing.

• N Lawrence on Sun 21 Dec 2003, 09:05am

  All Day at home with my workman,
  I wonder who told him the news about Princess Mary? one of the workman I guess as he doesn’t mention any other visitors today.
  I reckon Sam’s a little fed up, stuck in doors all day and acording to Ralph Josselin’s Diary entry; today is “very wintery cold, wet weather.

• N David Quidnunc on Mon 22 Dec 2003, 01:11am

  Today’s weather in Essex

  From the Rev. Ralph Josselin’s diary:
  “very wintery cold, wet weather…”
  http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne//diary/70012835.htm

• N David Quidnunc on Mon 22 Dec 2003, 01:13am

  Oops, didn’t see the bottom of Lawrence’s annotation!