they need to hear themselves speak (that is enough)

horsemouth is up early enough to notice that the sun is rising much further to the north than he had realised and illuminating more of the sidewall with the neighbours (the west wall) than he had realised. this means it will also shine on the decking at the back of the garden first thing... actually no, the recent brace of loft extensions east of the gaff will prevent this. 

anyway. it's a beautiful morning outside. summer is ycumen in etc. 

'the scout mindset'  (as touted by dominic cummings) is one of flexibility, of being willing to admit to errors and to correct them. you didn't get it wrong it's just an update. horsemouth has struggled at the communal endeavour. he struggles with people whose main aim in life is to do nothing (because you can't get nothing wrong). horsemouth has come to the conclusion that they need to hear themselves speak (that is enough). anyway nothing he can do about it now.  

last night he watched the process church of the final judgement.  it's a con/ it's a cult (or so everyone now seems to agree now that the founder mary ann is dead) - the actual members get off fairly lightly, their kids less so, their dogs (they were very fond of german shepherds) do pretty well out of it. it is another cult seeded by the scientologists (once you've seen the mind control it's hard to go back to dealing with people honestly).  

it's interesting to see that it got going among architects (and embassy workers and the like). there is something very j.g.ballard about this. 

today a walk and a wander round. yesterday some dangerous leisure shopping (where horsemouth gets bored and wanders up to a supermarket - where there are people and there may be coronavirus). he stocked up on the fake meat (£6) and coffee (£11.60 - 1kg), beer (3 bottles, 1.5l). he checked his bank balance (holding up nicely mr.jones). this follows on from monday's shopping. 

horsemouth supposes the thing to do is to get the activity in before the indian variant hits.  he doesn't really know what it will do. even if (because of vaccination) it doesn't kill so many people there are the dangers of it leading to many more cases of long covid and chronic disability.