'... ah my little friend. you are a bird...'

so horsemouth observed to the blackbird hopping around in the bushes. later there was a small vole or mouse like creature scampering about in the same spot (but horsemouth did not hail a fellow mammal). 

today a power out(r)age for necessary maintenance mostly involving chainsaws. this meant horsemouth could not work from home nor join you on the world wide communion (and his parents could not watch tv). result they are both busying themselves outside while horsemouth skulks about indoors having discovered that the power is back on early. 

his dad scored highly in horsemouth's estimations by finding a primus stove enabling horsemouth to have a cup of coffee in the morning. 

'well I am  not writing more in my diary now that I have one. today a power cut forces me to read the newspaper and to scrawl in said diary.

and I even desultorily open hannah arendt's the origins of totalitarianism where I discovered the story of benjamin disraeli (at last an engaging character).'  

so wrote horsemouth.

to be fair horsemouth also went for a walk up on the common (which he normally does if he has enough time in the day i.e. if he is not bogged down in that imposition of vampires work) and to be honest he often gets in a walk later on (just before it goes dark) with his mum round the local roads. this helps break up the day. 

a friend/ an acquaintance(?) is going in for a detox/ rehab etc. soon and (ambitiously) planning to do a digital detox, to not take in anything web enabled.  instead they plan to read loads of books, and keep a diary and do loads of art stuff. horsemouth thinks that this can be quite productive. for instance today horsemouth sang katie cruel  something he hasn't done for a while and attempted a pass through killing floor blues  which he also hasn't done in a while. plus he read an actual book and looked at an actual newspaper. 

there are people horsemouth knows who use social media but do not, as horsemouth does, put on a show. this seems strange to horsemouth.

later? zoom beers with howard. back at the old bull and gusset 6pm. 

tomorrow? a birthday quiz with denise