Samuel Pepys' Diary

[matty]

It's been on-line for a few years now. It's wonderful www.pepysdiary.com/

Have a good read, and if you like what you see, why not vote for it in the 2007 weblog awards in the Best Literature Blog category ? 2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-literature-blog-1.php

Read it even if you don't vote. It's triffic, innit

[Daz Madrigal]

Yes I'll vote.

Its the only blog I know although I got bogged down somewhere in the minutiae.

[matty]

Cheers Daz! This evening (Oz time) we've gorn from pat-on-the-head-very-good-second; a couple of hundred votes astray; to 22 votes behind the leader. I think we're gonna win!

[Daz Madrigal]

On a similar theme some old English Laws still in existence.


You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

WHY ON EARTH NOT!!

People born in Slough are not allowed to wash or bathe on a Sunday. (hence the term Slough of Despond..i.e. dirty and miserable).




- A license is required to keep a lunatic.

Are the Ukrainians aware of this fact?


-It is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

On that basis M/crs city centre should be considerably less crowded in future.

and lastly...

- If a steam locomotive is driven on roads, a man must walk in front of the vehicle with a red flag during the day and a red lantern at night to warn passersby.

Too late..Fred Dibnah died last year and was too busy getting drunk and possessing cows to bother anyway.