Saturday 20 February 1663/64
Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to the ‘Change with Mr. Coventry and thence home to dinner, after dinner by a gaily down to Woolwich, where with Mr. Falconer, and then at the other yard doing some business to my content, and so walked to Greenwich, it being a very fine evening and brought right home with me by water, and so to my office, where late doing business, and then home to supper and to bed.
Terry F Link to this
For more about the gaily=gally see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/12/18/
Lawrence Link to this
"after dinner by gaily down to Woowich"
per L&M. "after dinner by Gally down to Woolwich"
jeannine Link to this
"it being a very fine evening"
Sounds delightful, I'm jealous! Any idea what the temperature would be this time of year for Sam? I'd imagine it must be sort of mild otherwise a rowboat would be freezing.
cumsalisgrano Link to this
"...after dinner by a gaily down to Woolwich..." a nice scan error or be it a serendipitous comment to pass the censor. "S. went gailey down to Woolwich playing his lute."
3 men in a ?
Michael Robinson Link to this
(... to say nothing of Towser)
Mary Link to this
February in London.
London temperatures at this time of year can vary between several degrees below zero and the 12-14C that we are experiencing this week. It all depends on which airstream prevails on any given day: broadly speaking, milder and wetter Atlantic (westerly) systems, colder Continental airflows (easterly) or bitter nor-easters that feel as if they have come direct from the North Pole.
nakliyat Link to this
thanks all....
Sjoerd Link to this
I imagine the excursion to Woolwich was planned to make use of the tide running down and up the Thames.