vaksine! (vaccinate! vaccinate the world!)

horsemouth dunworkin' for the week. next week booked. this time next month last timetabled bit of work. will there still be furlough do you think? (asks horsemouth in search of free money). 

yes rishi sunak will stretch it out to the summer. perhas this will even boost out horsemouth's earnings to the point where he pays tax. 

here john in far off porto has posted up to youtube the track that horsemouth couldn't find vaksine! by haitian musician sanba yo, a hymn to getting everyone vaccinated. the tune for our times.  a few friends have been jabbed already (and his parents have been jabbed).  horsemouth would like to get it done and out of the way. 

he spent some time this morning reading helen harper's always a song, helen grows up in the folk scene (and so later on does her son ben).

NASA has landed a probe on mars.   humanity. you crafty little monkeys. up to no good in the neighbourhood again. bit tense in the control room for this. you've either done it and you're heroes or it has already crashed and burned and, in the essence of good comedy, you just don't know it yet because the signal takes so long to come from mars.

so far so good and for a fraction of the cost of the UK test, track and trace program.

he watched steve coogan's stan and ollie which was excellent. old men out of time going through their paces. the double act worked particularly well. the holmes and watson of rathbone and bruce is a double act too - 'by jove holmes'  thus is the seriousness diluted. with stan and ollie the straight man (ollie) is already a comic creation - he does not know that he is the fool and the comedian, he thinks he's sensible. he is a fool beset by an even greater fool. 

they overcome their conflicts and make their last dance.

curiously this left horsemouth in an anxious state. the problem with his parents is that, while it is very comfortable, there is no chance to move his life forward here, to do new things. but then much of the world is stuck in this moment of enforced reflection (doubtless the majority of it has to continue on as usual and risk death so horsemouth shouldn't moan).