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A Bear’s Diary – Part 5

13th January 2019 Tachybaptus 3753 Comments

January 19th, 1809. Our return to Lisbon will not be like our march north. Then we were travelling with an army in good order on broad roads through a populated area near the coast. Now [more…]

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A Bear’s Diary – Part 4

6th January 2019 Tachybaptus 3429 Comments

September 19th, 1808, Lisbon. We are in port at last, and I am glad to have my paws on the ground. It was a difficult passage out of the Channel, and we had to tack [more…]

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A Bear’s Diary – Part 3

30th December 2018 Tachybaptus 1917 Comments

June 12th, 1808. I take up my pen again in London, where Jem and I have arrived after our hasty departure from Cambridge. It is quite understandable that Jem, unpaid by his lordship for more [more…]

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A Bear’s Diary – Part 2

23rd December 2018 Tachybaptus 2490 Comments

March 6th, 1807. George is off to Italy, where I am sure he will have a capital time ogling churches and whores, and buying paintings that might be by Salvator Rosa but are probably not. [more…]

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A Bear’s Diary – Part 1

16th December 2018 Tachybaptus 2138 Comments

Cambridge, Novr. 6th, 1805. I did not dance well at the Bonfire Night show on Midsummer Common. Afterwards, Fred said to me, ‘Daisy, me ole dear. Yer knows and I knows yer gettin’ a bit [more…]

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