Bath & North East Somerset Council

Explore Bath's world heritage

Bath’s Heritage Other things to do in Bath Bath & North East Somerset Council
A page from a diary of 1756 describing the weather on January 1st Show image info

1756 weather diary by the Rector of Bath. Ref: TC Bath Churches

Life

Written in 2019 by a member of a creative writing class, through a collaboration between Bath Record Office and the St. John’s Foundation.

He thinks it’s hot.

She thinks it’s cold.

He opens a window

then finds it closed.

She struggles to open

some bottle or tin

and finally hands it

over to him.

One twist or jiggle –

Hey Presto! – he’s in.

And so, contentedly

they live.

Sometimes we take.

Sometimes we give.

 

Joyce Robinson, March 2019