soon we will be ascending back up into the light (all be it but slowly)

good morning. good morning. good morning.

horsemouth's cough is improving. the coldness of the air set him off a little when he went for a walk yesterday. 

yesterday there was an online outage (it is strange how anxious this made horsemouth feel - did he not live decades of his life without access to the world wide web? in a world of books, and tv and diaries and letters). 

before that there was a strange boiler event (we were held hostage at the mercy of the water flow sensor). a friend (out of london) was without power because of storm arwen. when horsemouth's mother phoned horsemouth checked that his parents were ok - the storm had snapped off the top half of a fir tree 20ft up  (but fortunately not dropped it through the garage roof - it was a big tree). 

yesterday horsemouth felt a distinct pessimism, this morning he is feeling more optimistic. we are literally half way to the solstice from the quarter day, we are thus into not just the dark quarter of the year, but the dark eighth. soon we will be ascending back up into the light (all be it but slowly). 

in 2021 horsemouth played a gig (for the weirdshire people - thanks dudes). in 2020 he played no gigs but he did release an album (plus 2 EPs and a digital single as part of musicians of bremen). in 2021 he released no music. well ok he released a golden glow mix (to go with 2020s golden glow mix). 

he did however record in 2021 (with catastro/fille and with enza) but these recordings are temporarily stuck in process. PPE (peter, paul and enza - inactive since 2019) briefly reformed (and then unformed again). 

horsemouth already has a gig booked for 2022 (as musicians of bremen at water into beer - cheers martin).

in 2020 he worked on a film the fall of the house of fitzgerald (with catastro/fille and enza). in 2021 he voiced george lansbury for an animation of catastro/fille's for the centenary of the poplar rates rebels. he would (of course) like to do more such work in 2022. 

he has kept this blog going (past the demise of facebook notes tool) and on into the sunny uplands of blogger. he is writing more as he has fewer early starts and without the pressures of work and travel. really and truthfully though this is a diary rather than any form of publishing - it is the confusion of these two that gives it its unique flavour. the harry everett smith anniversary encouraged him to read various articles including one on ed sander's archive. 

horsemouth has two remaining tasks this year - the first a meeting of the communal endeavour, the second he needs to get his booster jab in (and then he is free to go and hide in the countryside). he will then be free to plan his retirement (or scuttle back to the comfort and regularity of work). 

today it looks greyish (but not impossible) out. he may be at a conference on zoom in the afternoon (or he may not).  he may be babysitting tomorrow (or he may not).