welcome home husband (however drunk you are)

such is the name of a herb (diuretic, eaten in salads in poorer part of europe) that horsemouth found in suburban bushwacker’s book of edible/ medicinal plants (not richard mabey’s food for free but something similar). what would it do? worried horsemouth and the bushwacker.

horsemouth is suffering with an undeserved hangover (ok no- he deserves it). he went out to see stick in the wheel play (with myk and lou) at a folk club in romford. getting there was a little trying - broken down trains, district line to upminster - shuttle train to romford via emerson park - but horsemouth did it in the end (as did myk and lou who merely started later and waited for the next train).

so what happened at the gig?


stick in the wheel - poor horse but no allan moore song. horsemouth may have sung along. he is up a from here beer mat. myk suggested starting a not from here record label.

the elderly brothers - memorable name that. three men older than horsemouth cover neil young.

jolene - memorable name that. joan baez type thing. three or four songs - not horsemouth’s thing but decent.
aisline ___ - in gaelic so don’t ask horsemouth what it was about.

a song about pension age getting further away - a social issue now closer to horsemouth’s heart than it once was.

a satirical song about trump’s great wall ‘down mexico way’.

a small child played a tin whistle to rapturous applause (think ralph wiggam but small blond and female). 

songs?

there was a great version of down by the bonnie banks of fordie (horsemouth’s scottish granny’s maiden name), a great farewell nancy sung unaccompanied by a member of rom shanty, and a traditional handfasting song that resembled the wedding of george and billie macunias (but the other way around).

today horsemouth will install his newly purchased (and not entirely paid for) oaken chest. wednesday he will work. thursday he may go out and see stick in the wheel again (down nunhead way) if he can get any takers. friday is the birthday of dante gabriel rosettti, sunday is huntington ashram monastery/ under milk wood day. he has finished reading robert louis stevenson's travels with a donkey in the cévennes and even checked up some of the locations on his map of france.