a wander round (thank god, civil war has broken out!)

horsemouth is back from a wander round with howard. sad to relate they drank beer (small tins of modern IPA) and ate snacks. 

they started midway between their respective 'gaffs' (in the corner of victoria park), thence to the boats with the coffee (though they did not partake) and then on down the canal to the bow tescos (where they loaded up on the beer and snacks). they adjourned to the millfields to drink, eat and chat and then over the new bridge and round the island to the channelsea inlet and abbey creek. there are photos. thence up the green way to stratford and back to howard's via the dlr. 

there pizza and more beer. they listened to howard's collection of yemeni music and the new floating points/ pharoah sanders album (which they both think is impressive, rising up into alice coltrane like orchestral textures). horsemouth tried out howard's new guitars (a nylon strung and steel strung one) and pronounced them good. there was some discussion of how to cheat B and Gm chords. 

it will be horsemouth's last visit to the flat (howard is on the move)

at roughly 6ish horsemouth departed for the dlr at stratford he made the unfortunate discovery that the north london line (the overground) was out and there was a replacement bus. however after a goodly while it seemed to horsemouth that the replacement bus was heading further east rather than back west so he got off and fortunately found a 425 (as eulogised by official burnt toast) which delivered him to homerton hospital. 

now this has probably been horsemouth's most active (and most exposed) day in a long time. he now plans to go back to staying in and driving defensively for a bit (by way of mitigation). that said it was fun. it would probably have been better to walk but horsemouth brought the bass guitar back with him and so went for the dlr. 

yesterday there were events in horsemouth's paris commune diary. 

the reactionary edmond de goncourt writes;

'the sound of gunfire, about ten o'clock, in the direction of  courbevoie. thank god, civil war has broken out! when things have reached this pass, civil war is preferable to hypocritical skullduggery. the firing dies down. has versailles been beaten? alas, if versailles suffers the slightest reverse, versailles is lost!...

finally a newspaper tells me that the belleville troops have been beaten! I am filled with a  jubilation which I savour at length. let tomorrow bring what it will.' 

in other good news. 

horsemouth may have made a sale (thank you dude) on bandcamp friday. work have furloughed him (and seeing as the furlough may run up to september) he may even make enough money to pay tax this year. the apocalypse is enabling him to save money, if he survives, this may be useful.