news briefing is over and we are onto prayer for the day (and the text they have chosen is 'it won't always be like this'). but for many people today will be a perfectly ordinary day, one in which the restrictions will be meaningless because they are things they wouldn't have been doing anyway.
horsemouth is reusing this proforma 'how was your year for you' from january 1st 2019
horsemouth has, since last summer, been putting himself about a bit more (at least that was the plan), but that has been slowed down by the pandemic.
horsemouth did no gigs last year. he has none planned for this year. hopefully he will at least do some online or video himself or some such). he hopes to do some recording (but he has none planned currently).
rob lawson plans an album of duets maybe horsemouth can blag onto that.
2020 was a creative year because in 2019 he was saving up his efforts (in musicians of bremen) and because he worked with new people (catastro/fille and en za) in 2020. horsemouth hopes this will all continue in some form.
he will keep writing (the drawing and the photography seem to have died back still further).
work continues to roll on - the working from home and the furlough have saved his arse. he's probably not working enough (to prevent boredom) and not earning enough (to keep food on the table and a roof over his head). once again he should probably diversify his sources of work (but he won't).
things are tight between rising expenses and stagnant wages. but he's not bothered. he's distracted by the apocalypse. and because he's staying home he is in fact saving money. he ain't been up the pub since he don't know when, he's barely been on public transport since march etc. he has savings. his attachment to the real economy is dwindling.
his homestead (the gaff) - horsemouth remains cautiously pleased with. it has been - so far - mostly hassle free (though he'll have to see what it is like when he gets back there). he’s nearly covered all the walls of his room with bookshelving. the raised bed permits better hoarding. between the front window and the chimney breast recently he rearranged one of the shelves to provide a nook in which to store guitars.
horsemouth has rather too many cheap acoustic guitars (all of which take up a fair amount of room). he also has a keyboard and a harmonium that he should get out and do some practice on.
he needs to have another book purge. there are a lot of books horsemouth bought just for the pleasure of a bargain or out of a passing interest. despite having moved them all from pop(u)lar a mere four years ago he's not sure that he loves them enough to want to move them again.
the communal endeavour all meets online now. horsemouth is hopeful but he recognises the change is coming. horsemouth has genuinely tried to keep his eyes on the prize and to avoid annoying people.
politically horsemouth expects it all to continue to be shit, just because brexit is done it doesn't mean that the current spate of nationalist bollocks won't drag on forever. he apologises to his EU friends.
the latest tory wheeze is to render parliamentary constituencies more evenly sized (based on favourable census data of course). this could be worth an extra 5-10 seats to them at the 2024 election. (in this way does improving the representativeness of democracy lead to tyranny). the representation of scotland, northern ireland and wales will be reduced in the whole. if scotland could be hived off then the tories would be on to a permanent winner.
well soon enough on with the year.
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