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Laurel’s comments from the I Read Therefore I Am group.

A Box Of Rabbits


I found a box of rabbits
Near a big garbage can
I quickly picked it up
Then to my home I ran.

There were five hungry rabbits
All short and thin
I gave them some food
Then I started to grin.

I knew I couldn't keep them
So in a pet shop I gave them away
I was happy to help them
But I was sad they couldn't stay.

Tuesday 25 June 1661

Up this morning to put my papers in order that are come from my Lord’s, so that now I have nothing there remaining that is mine, which I have had till now.

This morning came Mr. Goodgroome to me (recommended by Mr. Mage), with whom I agreed presently to give him 20s. entrance, which I then did, and 20s. a month more to teach me to sing, and so we began, and I hope I have come to something in it. His first song is “La cruda la bella.” He gone my brother Tom comes, with whom I made even with my father and the two drapers for the cloths I sent to sea lately.

At home all day, in the afternoon came Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca and Mr. Hempson, and by and by both Sir Williams, who sat with me till it was late, and I had a very gallant collation for them.

At night to bed.

I've changed my challenge from 200 books to 150 as I don't seem to be reading as fast as usual - too much work I reckon!

56. S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
57. Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola
58. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
59. The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
60. The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Story of How the Fabled Ark Was Found by Tudor Parfitt
61. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray POllock
62.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

I'm not sure I get this and it's a bit messed up but I kinda like it ;)

FALLING LIFE



You are in a very high tree.

If you jump
you will live a full life
while falling.

You will get married
to a hummingbird

and raise beautiful part-
hummingbirds.

You will die of cancer
in mid-air.

I will not lie.
It will be painful.

You are a brave little boy
or girl.

Apologies for Mr Pepys late appearance today - I couldn't get my internet working this morning!

Monday 24 June 1661

(Midsummer-day). We kept this a holiday, and so went not to the office at all. All the morning at home. At noon my father came to see my house now it is done, which is now very neat. He and I and Dr. Williams (who is come to see my wife, whose soare belly is now grown dangerous as she thinks) to the ordinary over against the Exchange, where we dined and had great wrangling with the master of the house when the reckoning was brought to us, he setting down exceeding high every thing. I home again and to Sir W. Batten’s, and there sat a good while. So home.

Yes - it's almost as if I've got an audio version narrated by Humphrey Boggart...which is cool ;)

Yeah - I tend to bite off more than I can chew! (Ha ha I'm so funny) It was pretty horrible - round two will just be an ordinary wholemeal loaf, nothing more so *hopefully* this will come out ok and then I can work my way up to more complicated things ;)

I thought this was really sweet - and true how it's the little things that keep you going when everything is dark :)

It is dark, no moon, no light
Just darkness, a starless sky
The wind blows, the waves break
A single firefly passes by

Soon the firefly is gone
Leaving me in the darkest of nights
The tiny fly made me anticipate
A sunrise with the finest of lights

Ha ha this poem is brilliant - Love all that old-fashioned murder mystery/sleuth stuff but it can be over the top lol!

I hope Mrs Pepys never read Sam's diary - he's forever eyeing up other women!

Sunday 23 June 1661

(Lord’s day). In the morning to church, and my wife not being well, I went with Sir W. Batten home to dinner, my Lady being out of town, where there was Sir W. Pen, Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca, and Mr. Hempson and his wife. After dinner to church all of us and had a very good sermon of a stranger, and so I and the young company to walk first to Graye’s Inn Walks, where great store of gallants, but above all the ladies that I there saw, or ever did see, Mrs. Frances Butler (Monsieur L’Impertinent’s sister) is the greatest beauty. Then we went to Islington, where at the great house I entertained them as well as I could, and so home with them, and so to my own home and to bed. Pall, who went this day to a child’s christening of Kate Joyce’s, staid out all night at my father’s, she not being well.

I'm really enjoying this, only a little way into it but it's a lot of fun.

Saturday 22 June 1661

Abroad all the morning about several businesses. At noon went and dined with my Lord Crew, where very much made of by him and his lady. Then to the Theatre, “The Alchymist,” which is a most incomparable play. And that being done I met with little Luellin and Blirton, who took me to a friend’s of theirs in Lincoln’s Inn fields, one Mr. Hodges, where we drank great store of Rhenish wine and were very merry. So I went home, where I found my house now very clean, which was great content to me.

Friday 21 June 1661

This morning going to my father’s I met him, and so he and I went and drank our morning draft at the Samson in Paul’s Churchyard, and eat some gammon of bacon, &c., and then parted, having bought some green Say for curtains in my parler. Home, and so to the Exchequer, where I met with my uncle Wight, and home with him to dinner, where among others (my aunt being out of town), Mr. Norbury and I did discourse of his wife’s house and land at Brampton, which I find too much for me to buy.

Home, and in the afternoon to the office, and much pleased at night to see my house begin to be clean after all the dirt.

Antipodes wrote: "OK. About 2 hours of research, and there are still disagreements over exactly what the monks saw with two competing theories: the formation of a new impact crater on the moon; or an exploding meteo..."

Thanks!

ha ha well the first attempt didn't work at all. I was trying to make gluten-free bread with an American recipe and I dunno if I converted the measurements wrong or something but it really wasn't right. Will try again with a normal flour and see how it goes.