The Diary (wonderful, fascinating and joyful) of Samuel Pepys. Day One: let’s go 🤗🤓

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Hallo dear friends and a very good evening. It’s a hot (I would say but it’s only 20 degrees so an American would say mild 😆) day in merry England.  

I’ve planted many hollyhocks of all colours, a rose bush ‘New Dawn’ given to me to help with grief by my best friend Victoria, some ornamental poppies and wisteria.  We also planted the unusual and Biblical hyssop which is associated with ritual cleansing and forgiveness. It was used in the bible on many occasions, including at Jesus’ crucifixion where it was used to offer Him a sponge soaked in sour wine, or ‘sick wine’ - vine gar..  🙂

I wish you all a very happy Sunday and thank you so much for doing me the honour of joining me as we start our third series.  This really will be lots of fun and if you persevere, your life will be all the happier for listening to Pepys talk about London life in the 1660s.  It’s a wonderful adventure.  

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Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture.  

Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time;  the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free.

Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And so is determined to walk this path with light footsteps and with humour and warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts.

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Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.  

Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland, John Simpson, Eleanor Parker, Philippa Langley and Katie Channon.  

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