'hey guys don't be so negative. what's so wrong with young entrepreneurs opening wine bars on lower clapton'

seven years on from horsemouth's war on the gentrification of lower clapton (with glyn, and django and her friends) and what's the state of play? well horsemouth wouldn't know because he hasn't been up there in a year. 

the nearest he's got was the end of powerscroft road where, last night,  he went up to meet up with ayesha, iona and hannah (iona is over on a visit from sunny rumania). 

seven years ago in glyn's front garden in the sunshine (a blazing hot summer day). himself and glyn being interviewed by django and her friends  - horsemouth thinks he may have made some sense at some points. some stuff to think about - ok the gentrification isn't paper thin but the jobs that go with it are - no surprises then if wine bar employee doesn't like the negativity.

the film vanished into the aether but horsemouth had an enjoyable time wandering around clapton with glyn and django viewing the gentrification (and bemoaning it) 

it was good to meet up with iona and ayesha (they of gertrude, iona of the rantipoles) and hannah. horsemouth may have promised to reprise his role of george lansbury from catastro/FILLE's film for the E15 mums street stall at some point (oh dear god). 

gertrude were great (but at some point the pressure to do something else instead became too much - and curiously at the point where the music was taking off). horsemouth was thinking about it because he mentioned gertrude  at his gig in hereford and someone asked what had become of them (ok ok it was his planted stooge richard). 

there was some discussion of manele - a kind of slightly gangster/ materialist/ living large take on gypsy music popular in rumania. they plied horsemouth with beer and eventually ushered him out of the door. 

before he met gertrude he bumped into tim goldie in the street and they sat and had a chat for a bit (good to see him). tim mentioned he might be off to berlin to meet mattin (that would be good). 

yesterday, other than that unexpected adventure, horsemouth did a homework and hand over at his child-minding/ tutoring gig (this involved nearly 5 miles of walking).  

today (a.n.other beautiful day). he may see howard (if not at some point over the weekend).