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Phil Gyford has posted 771 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.

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Third Reading

About Friday 10 February 1659/60

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Just a little nudge about annotations… while it is often useful to compare Pepys' life and world to our own, this isn't the place for discussions of the modern world and our opinions of it. Annotations are for discussing and making sense of what Pepys writes, for readers today and in the future. Thanks.

About Supporting this site at Ko-fi

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Hi Linda. I'm not sure what to do I'm afraid, as there's no way I'm able to change the forms on Ko-fi. I can only suggest double-checking your card number and the three-digit CVC number are correct. Sorry, but thanks for the thought even if you don't succeed!

Second Reading

About Sunday 1 January 1659/60

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From now on, where the 1893 edition has ellipses (…) marking omitted phrases, I will be gradually adding in the text for them taken from the Latham & Matthews edition, in [brackets] and marked with "L&M". We see the first two of these in this diary entry.

About Sunday 9 August 1668

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As Kevin Peter says above, Sir Arthur Slingsby (who L&M indicate this is, in their Index) is dead at this point. I'm linking him to Henry Slingsby, given the only other male Slingsby mentioned in the diary is Col. Robert, who is also dead at this point.

About Saturday 2 November 1661

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On the one hand, please do bear in mind that people are still reading this day-to-day and don't want to know about "future" events - requesting no spoilers is entirely reasonable.

On the other hand, it's debatable how much of a spoiler noting Pepys's opinions changing is - it's interesting to know in advance, and it's not like saying when someone will die, for example.

About Ms Nightingale

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I received an email from Brian Roberts who gave permission to post this memory of his:

"From 1954 to 1969 I worked at Church Farm, Yelling. The small field close to the farmhouse is called 'Nightingales' to this day. The local belief was that the name originated from the fact that Nightingales sang there in the Spring, but I am assuming that the field was in fact owned by Miss Nightingale, with the possibility that her cottage stood there."

About Maps are working again

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For anyone following along at home... it turns out that Mapbox had updated how they do things and although the maps were now working again, they'd have stopped on November 1st, when the "old way" of defining the style of the map stopped working.

In the end it required downloading a small update to some of the map-generating code and changing the name of the style of map we use. So, it should now continue working.

About Samuel Pepys and the virus

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I've posted an update because there's been another flurry of those tweets being sent around resulting in an even larger spike in traffic for the site.

About Thursday 28 February 1666/67

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"I realize that all month when Phil highlighted "Victualling" I hadn't bothered to check the link. Today I did, and find that they led to Dennis Gauden, not the Victualling offices."

Having checked, all instances of "victualling" lead to the description of Victualling. Instances of "the Victualler" lead to Gawden, the Navy Victualler. Is this wrong?

About New search page

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If you were searching for "tokens" then the first results were diary entries that included the word "token" - although because it's not an exact match these weren't displayed as highlights underneath each link, something I'd like to improve (although I'm not sure how).

Yes, to search in the Encyclopedia you have to choose to search in the Encyclopedia, rather than the Diary Entries (which is the default choice; something has to be).

You can also click the "Google" link in the sidebar of the search page and you'll get the same results as you used to get here.