Today: after the style of the Diary of Samuel Pepys

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I'm currently reading the abridged diaries of Samuel Pepys to Clare. As of today we're in early December 1660. I thought it would be interesting to write this day today in the style of Mr Pepys - let's see if GPT-5.6 can oblige?

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"Up about 8 o’clock, and presently to the clothes which had stood drying all night upon the horse, and put them into the tumble-dryer, that they might be got dry and put away. And so downstairs to my wife, and there we sat together reading the Times, and discoursing upon several things therein.

At a quarter before 10 took the car and with my wife to church, where to Mass, and heard Father Tony preach very well upon Pope St Pius X, whose feast is this day; a very good homily, and much to my liking. And before all the congregation he did thank me for my pains in getting the new urn for the kitchen bought and plumbed in, which will be of great convenience to the women that make the tea and coffee after Mass; which pleased me.

There also I was told that the switch to the courtyard lights is broke, so that the lights cannot now be put out; and moreover that the vacuum cleaners do work very ill. So I resolved that the old ones should be cast away and new ones got in their place.

Our car being already pretty full of cardboard, garden rubbish, old metal and other things designed for the recycling place without the town, we did put into it several ancient vacuum cleaners, being scarce fit for use, with a great company of pipes and other pieces belonging to them. And after Mass, having had some merry discourse with the others and made trial of the new urn, away we went to the recycling place, which lies a little to the south-east of the town, and there discharged the whole load, and so home.

By then it was time to dine, and my wife had made a casserole of beef and barley, which was excellent, and I ate it with great pleasure.

After dinner much of the afternoon at my guitars; first near an hour upon my new acoustic guitar, practising fingerstyle blues, and afterwards some 25 minutes upon my Sire S3 electric guitar and the 25-watt amplifier, playing lead solos very loud, to the great delight, as I choose to suppose, of all the neighbours. And was much pleased with my playing.

Meanwhile my wife abroad for a little walk, for her exercise, and afterwards to the ironing. And by this time supper, where we had only a light meal of salad, ham and rolls with cheese and other things.

Afterwards my wife to the cricket on TV, England against Pakistan in the Test Match, and I to my shower; and thence hither to set down the passages of this day, and then to bed."

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