Pepystweets

The modern Diary of Samuel Pepys, Gentleman, reduced to tweeting in the barbarous world of 2018 London. Novel forthcoming.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

A USERS GUIDE TO NOW Comedy/Fantasy
Magicked with his wife to modern London, Samuel Pepys is flummoxed by his loss of status, while she relishes her new freedoms.
#JWMeetYourMatch #comedy #uplit

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

A USERS GUIDE TO NOW Comedy/fantasy
Magicked with his wife to modern London, Samuel Pepys is flummoxed by his loss of status, while she relishes her new freedoms.
#JWMeetYourMatch #Comedy #Uplit

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

@tkirwood A USERS GUIDE TO NOW Comedy/Fantasy.
Magicked with his wife to modern London, Samuel Pepys is flummoxed by his loss of status while she relishes her new freedoms.
#JWMeetYourMatch #Comedy #Uplit

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

@Tkirwood

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

URGENT: on Wednesday the Chancellor will announce his plans for the next stages of the UK economic recovery.

Don't let him forget our arts and culture. Add your name to the @Public_Campaign letter.

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[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

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[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

I sincerely hope that you were able to save your cheese.

[Deborah Swift @swiftstory]

Getting my fingers burned as the Great Fire of London approaches the hay stores on the wharves by the Ropery. Got some trapped horses to rescue before I can stop writing. #GreatFire #London #17thCentury #EntertainingMrPepys

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

For me, a Coffee-House with comfortable seats doth destroy the very purpose of coffee.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

Mr M McIntyre is either a man of genius or a crafty knave, inviting people to his comedies which have no scenery, no amorous wenches and consist of naught but asides.

[Deborah Swift @swiftstory]

Friend Michelle supplied me with this little booklet with plays about #Pepys, looking forward to reading #keepitStuart

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

Craft ale does deprive a man of many of his hearty drinking delights, being too clear to drop a dead toad into his fellow's glass.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

My advice to Mr S Walsh, which he will not take, is that he should make all his liaisons in Deptford.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

Mrs May doth try her hand at dancing and jesting but she she presents neither the style, the devilishness nor the hair of King Charles 11.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

I have decided to do the cool thing and have wired up my virginals. They now sound horrible but I do get a most thrilling tingling in my fingers.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

I am mightily proud of my modish attire, in which I am suitably dressed for all conceivable occasions save for, possibly, bunjee-jumping.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

Our government is paralyzed in rancorous indecision over their belief in Brexit. If I were the French King, I would deem it an ideal time to invade.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

A bribe is a corrupt payment to a man so he can perform wrongful services for you. If you pay him afterwards, 'tis merely a tip.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

The idea of healthy teeth is an airy, piffling concept. You either have them or you don't.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

There is not a tragedy in life so bad that it cannot be made worse by the eating of a gristly pie.

[Pepystweets @Periwigman]

I walk past Parliament Square once a month to see whether they have yet put up a statue of me. My coat doth have a far better cut than that of Mr Churchill.