rolling in the deep

horsemouth rolls towards a significant date but this year it falls on a monday so its integrating power is diffused. as usual horsemouth is asailed by our songs and alike at early hours of the morning and by the lives he did not lead. to counteract this he has been keeping busy - feeding multiple cats, babysitting, though sadly not going out to a party like he’d planned (oops). horsemouth will be going for drinks round a friend’s house on the monday otherwise he will not be celebrating it in the particular this year.


horsemouth saw this yesterday - wharf of canaries jazz festival - excelent 
(quite abdullah ibrahim-ish mostly in the horn chants). thanks myk.

photos have emerged of himself and john clarkson’s dolmen (or anda) hunting expedition north of porto in early july. it was a hot and humid day (it had just rained) and misled by a google maps link john and horsemouth plunged down the hillside and into the forest from a dirt parking lot just outside an amusement park - the dolmen remained elusive until reading the comments section of a ‘modern antiquarians’ website a description of how to find it was found - entirely elsewhere. (and so back up the hill our intrepid heroes went to the car and off they drove).

photos by john clarkson

several miles later at a corner in another forest (lost again) horsemouth and john encountered a woman out walking - horsemouth asked for directions (in portuguese - well done horsemouth) but failed to adequately understand the reply (he’d have done better to try english) - they were in fact very close but instead hared off up the next mountain - from a boulder on its side they surveyed the verdant green.

another mobile internet search later they realised how close they had been at the previous corner. returning they found the path (and there - a mere ten yards off the road - it was). horsemouth and john began to document their visit with photographs (blurring the boundaries between to have or to be).

horsemouth put a blanket (ok a teeshirt) over is head and indulged in some ill thought out wailing and howling. across the road (and again hidden in the trees) were some hollowed out stone coffins from about AD 1000.

while bbc news yesterday claimed august the 20th as the date of the invasion that smashed the prague spring in 68 milan simecka (in his the restoration of order: the normalization of czechoslovakia) gives the key date as the 21st. of course this normalization (where people’s faith in politics was broken and they were encouraged just to pay lip-service to the new regime) was less an event than a long process of purges and denunciations in local parties. horsemouth forsees a similar programme to demobilise the corbynistas (but one without tanks this time).