Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
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And he very frequently starts his entries up and on the water.
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And actually Lev and I often say to one another,
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In our texts, I was up and on the water by eight o'clock this morning in
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touching tribute to Pepys.
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So Pepys in those years from about 1665 to 1667 is living in what's known as the mini Ice Age.
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in 17th century restoration London, where there's this devastating cold snap that actually caused great loss of life and great hardship to people.
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But Pepys, again, endows it with this huge sense of vitality and interest.
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So there's another little Pepys entry from a couple of years before, from the 18th of December, 1665.
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The parts I'm going to read out show us this juxtaposition in Pete's life between his incredible energy as a businessman and sense of purpose and excitement that he gets from bustling around in the streets of London.
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And at the same time, this idea that the Thames is actually quite a dangerous body of water.
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He says, I to the change, which is the royal exchange where business got done, up and down to kingdom and the goldsmiths to meet Mr. Stevens and did get all my money matters most excellently cleared to my complete satisfaction.
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Passing over Cornhill, I spied young Mrs. Daniel and Sarah, my landlady's daughter, who had come, as I expected, to town and did say they spied me and I dogged them to St.
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Martin's where I passed by them being shy and walked down as low as Duck Lane and inquired for some Spanish books and so back again and they were gone.
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And what he says at the end of the day is that he had a great deal of trouble getting home.
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Home by water to Greenwich, the river beginning to be very full of ice.
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So as I was a little frighted, but got home well, it being dark.
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So one really can imagine peeps in a boat low to the water with a lighterman, one of the men who rode, which is sort of like a London gondolier, on this fast-flowing river in the dark filled with blocks of ice.
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It's a terrifying spectacle.
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We do.
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understood the complexity and the nuance
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