nature boy live at the village gate / school of the gravel-pit chapel, paradise fields, hackney (girls)

horsemouth failed to go out for a beer and a sun-at-night with max sunday night. on this day in 1965 john coltrane recorded a version of nature boy  at the village gate. nature boy  was written by eden ahbez who chose to spell his name with lower-case letters, claiming that only the words God and Infinity were worthy of capitalization.

‘don’t start with the good old things but the bad new ones’ cautions bertolt brecht

but on the other hand horsemouth sat in reading a book on london gardens - in particular the loddiges of paradise gardens hackney (of which horsemouth thinks only paradise row near the top of bethnal green road remains - no he’s wrong it’s just down from opposite the town hall).

‘oh the incredible profit by digging of ground’ - thomas fuller, the history of the worthies of england, 1662.

based on his p60 (horsemouth is not so much groaning under the weight of taxation so much as he has sunken beneath it) he has resolved to start taking sandwiches to work, and a flask of coffee, and to take the bus more, to do more gleaning and rag picking, to drink in pubs less (to brown paper bag it more).

his find for today is nature trails volume one- richard williamson, and a copy of the ft and grauniad from last week (mondays recycling day in bloomsbury - the kind of neighbourhood where they still read newspapers).