you would be a rare individual if you didn’t disagree with certain things . Maybe you agree with everything x
Max agrees with Faffing, that’s for sure 
sounds an agreeable pastime.
well erm faffing, tinkering,pottering, innit
You can still be happy to have moan…I find the older I get, the more happy I am moaning…
Mrs Fox says she does too…
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What would the forum be without the opinions of happy but disgruntled people? Keep expressing gruntles I say 
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gruntles and grunges, can’t beat it
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There’s always been bad news…
Interesting but rather dark reading.
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got any good news?
The sun is shining!
That’s nice but it needs a little sensation added, it’s just not controversial enough.
And now it is cloudy !
Interesting. Could you give details? Where and when is this from?
It’s a bill of mortality Dachs. These were displayed on walls in London way back when to show communities how people had passed away although of course most probably couldn’t read. This one is from the 1600’s Ninth down on the left is interesting. Nobody today knows what rising of the lights meant.
These bills are dealt with very briefly in this book. Compelling although not very uplifting reading.
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The list of Causes of Death was interesting, Chilli - I wonder what date that was - I noticed by far the largest cause of death that week was Plague - 7165 deaths. That must have been around 1665, when the Plague was reaching its peak.
That looks like an interesting book of social history.
Re “Rising of the Lights”
I remember reading some of my old Aunt’s recipe books - Christmas mincemeat including minced “lights” , which was the old word for lungs. In that recipe, the “lights” would be the lungs of animals.
I wonder if “rising of the lights” referred to some kind of lung disease?
Perhaps it was some kind of respiratory disease, which caused the sufferer to cough up the thickened mucus from the lungs?
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I would like to ban religion.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rising of the lights was an illness or obstructive condition of the larynx, trachea or lungs, possibly croup. It was a common entry on bills of mortality in the 17th century. Lights in this case referred to the lungs.
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I’d recommend the book Boot. It looks as if MargaretF has clarified 
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Thanks, Margaret - that aligns with what it sounds like to me.
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I seem to remember my aunt buying ‘lights’ from the butcher to feed to her cat - I would think that she cooked it in some way first, I can’t be sure of that though.
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