Pepys contends with Jealousie; Out-of-date Historicising; and Mr Friendly from Bury St Edmunds

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️I hope you are well and coping with the unusually cold weather.  I appreciate Pepys’ diaries are not always easy to follow but I hope you are content that we are pushing on with them.  I imagine it’ll take another year and a half to finish them, but what an endeavour!   By then we will have completed Bede’s work, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, a Month in the Country, Scenes of a Clerical Life, Cranford, Under the Greenwood Tree and more. What joy!Best wishes and lots of love Gretel xxx Support the showGretel 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.  We’ve reached nearly 80,000 downloads.  Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed.  Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the title information.  Whether you are interested in history, literature, poetry or one-to-one chatting, I try to give you something that will interest you.  This is a podcast for the curious, the kind and - possibly - the suffering or lonely.  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏 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.Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 😬☺️🥴Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Author Nicola Cornick; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela...