Pepys never slepys

 
More news from The Diary of Samuel Pepys –

On 18 Dec 1680, Pepys had to hang around the house watching workmen, who were installing a new front door.  His one-line diary notation is a little testy . . .

All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my workmen.

One of the correspondents on

http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/12/18/#annotations

asks --

Haiku?
Morning to midnight

Pepys, stone-eyed, blinkless,
stirs on 
his workmen.
Then slepys.


It’s not a perfect haiku, but close enough.

Joe