horsemouth and the war over space

look what just popped up! karen dalton from a 1971 tour with santana. horsemouth never knew this existed. the acoustic guitarist is too quiet but they do good tight versions of something's on your mind, blues on the ceiling, are you leaving for the country, and one night of love. 

well horsemouth is back in the great wen after very nearly a quarter of the year away. did you miss him? probably not (you weren't going out very much horsemouth understands). the bin men are just visiting (cheers dudes).

he returns to the books he was reading before he went away scattered about the place (the flux wedding - 28th feb is gone). he returns to three CDs of zither music (and their associated packaging, two postcards and, in one case a booklet) from robert lawson in far off rio gordo (reflexivity, cashmere doesn't follow you to malaysia, the nameless wave). it's all great stuff - horsemouth recommends it to you. he's made a start on reflexivity. 

horsemouth returns to the war over space (he's just been skirmishing with sten over it). he returns to an uncompleted redecoration of the upstairs living room (in fact he returns to the living room floor having been made unuseable by sten dumping his tools from a jobsite there). sten's plan is to now sort the tools out on the kitchen floor, which is, as he points out without irony, the only free space left in the house.

once again it is the game of the 8 squares and the 9 spaces.  

now everybody in the house has a hoarding issue but daryll, ian and horsemouth are assiduous about keeping it in their own rooms. 

similarly the front garden. (now this was not as bad as horsemouth expected it to be). 

when he returned home horsemouth had a minor radge. he did the undone washing up. he mopped the kitchen floor. most importantly he took out the recycling and the bag of rotting organic waste left on the countertop, he reduced the number of bins out front from 4 to 2 (apparently there is a shortage of bins), he's just contemplating taking it down to one. 

horsemouth is adopting the strategy of being needlessly obstructive (this creates tactical space so he can appear generous and helpful  should he actually agree to something). in a way preventing the living room from being used suits him fine (it means there aren't people clumping about above his head) nonetheless he retains the moral belief that it should be returned to being available for the use of all the people in the house.