The Pepys Project

From Stephanie I discovered The Pepys Project and decided to register my site on the Connecticut page. There are some cool sites listed there already.

You may know that Samuel Pepys was a famous English diarist in the 17th century. You may not know that I once lived in the town where he lived (Brampton, Huntingdonshire), and attended school at Hinchingbrooke, where he worked. In fact, our school houses at Hinchingbrooke were Pepys, Montagu, Vesey and Cromwell. I was in Pepys. (Pronounced "peeps.")

I used to have a hard time explaining to my American friends what the houses of the school were, exactly, but in these days of Harry Potter it's so much easier. Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw have made the concept much more accessible.

And the other thing is... two weeks from tomorrow I'll be seeing my old school again. That is the day we leave London for Brampton, where we'll be staying with old friends (our next door neighbor and his wife -- and he happens to be a retired Hinchingbrooke teacher).

Yes indeed. Funny how things all come together like this sometime. I'm starting to feel a little like James Burke.