I am enjoying Bill Bryson's book At Home and was intrigued by this passage about the Englishman Parson Woodforde who kept a diary from 1758 to for forty five years. 'A decent enough human being' according to Bryson, It seems he mainly recorded what he ate and Bryson notes -
Nor did anything much .of the outside world intrude. The American War of Independence is hardly mentioned. When the Bastille fell in 1789 he noted the fact, but gave more space to what he had for breakfast.
I do wonder whose lifestyle is the strangest, or the sanest, his or ours....