two weeks to samhain!

it's very slightly over two weeks to go to the celtic quarter day samhain (known to non heathens largely as halloween or’all hallows eve’, it’s a festival of the dead. and at that precise moment, over that very night, the ability to write notes (or blog posts as horsemouth thinks of them) on facebook will be gone. horsemouth has been adjusting to the thought of writing without an immediate audience. it will be an interesting challenge for him. (look at what he is doing right now). 

the celtic quarter days are (roughly) the midpoints between equinoxes and solstices and vice versa. the point where seasons end in earnest and begin in earnest. changes in weather and life realm rather than actions of the sun or the stars. 

meanwhile, last night, while london slept, the city went into tier two lockdown. ‘which means what exactly?’ remarked sten. well it means horsemouth won’t be off to sunny mile end to work on the dancing about architecture piece this morning because we can no longer meet in each others houses (or flats indeed). instead he’s proposing various things to hide his disappointment, purring exercises, music boxes found on blue oyster cult records, burning swords a la hollis frampton (nostalgia). 

what it really means is that three weeks ago the government was too chickenshit to take the advice of its own scientific advisors and go for a limited period nationwide ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown. instead we have open ended regional lockdowns covering half the population with restrictions that make little or no sense and arguably aren’t working for that reason. 

in the struggle against coronavirus march was wasted, summer has been wasted, october has been wasted. but what was horsemouth doing today? he was traveling for work (a still a permitted, nay, required, activity). the city looks sad without its people. 

triple negative have played a gig (under the current restrictions). it was good.