a busy day

comrade S was arguing that dense  is not just a welsh thing (how very very dare he - he's not welsh!).

last night the rivals of sherlock holmes - late victorian sleuthery. taken with sten and a glass of beer - windsor davis made an appearance as a flat-foot cop (but strangely without a welsh accent). 

today is a busy day. horsemouth goes to perform child portage duties this am (and possibly this evening as well). 

meanwhile across town there is an eviction sponsored by the communal endeavour. an eviction horsemouth? that's not very generous is it? the short life property comes with a built in eviction (that's how the communal endeavour get the property by promising faithfully to leave it when requested to do so by the owners). there are grim complicating factors (which horsemouth won't discuss) so horsemouth does hope it goes well in the sense of not as badly as it could go.

horsemouth doesn't see the alternative but more worryingly he doesn't see anything that can be done in mitigation - there is nobody to call who it would make a difference to call (and there should be). it is all now in the lap of the gods. 

jim bermingham, a former housemate of horsemouth's and london busking legend, has died. jim busked all over europe and made enough to live comfortably. his death horsemouth discovered a day late. he had lived, he had travelled he had busked. horsemouth once posted something on dulcimer player michael o'shea (another london busking legend and creator of a new musical instrument) and jim had replied that he knew him (and had in fact saved the mo chara (o'shea's new instrument) from a bonfire on a beach one time). paddy phoned him up to tell him and enza messaged him. paddy and horsemouth reminisced about the stoke newington  scene in the mid 80ies.

when jim came round to be interviewed for horsemouth's house he brought his resonator guitar (a national if horsemouth remembers correctly). paddy says he has a CD of jim's music (horsemouth remembers him doing a good version of fields of athenry). horsemouth has asked for a copy.  

cross the rainbow bridge jim and move towards the light. 

this evening horsemouth has to do a presentation (under potentially less than ideal conditions). it's a little stressful, horsemouth has been rehearsing. 

a year ago horsemouth was interested in the flux weddding and zefiro torna and he was writing well. but he'd already made the bad decision to leave london for the duration of the plague (history falls out from this). his plans for this year are basically the same - finish up as early as he can and be off.