'the way I came to miss the end of the world... was sheer accident.'

'when a day that you happen to know is wednesday starts off by sounding like sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'

so begins john wyndham's the day of the triffids. subject of a recent discussion (with blind people on the panel) on radio 4's the essay. this was their starting point - the silence of lockdown. it is, like the survivors, a case of the british middle classes in the apocalypse (gawdelpus). 

horsemouth is dealing with his own variety of silence. the silence of the work. he is dealing with it by writing his daily blogposts in early (anything that hasn't yet occurred to him can be added later). he has read the first page of day of the triffids and see what that has sparked off already - he will post this wednesday the 16th. 

he will also start on writing his response to john coltrane's posthumous release stellar regions that (if you are reading this) you will have read on tuesday the 15th of february. just to be clear he was actually  writing this on monday the 14th of febraury which is either valentines day or 'let's kill captain cook' day depending on your preference. 

this he is writing on tuesday 15th february.

'to an extent that has yet to be fully appreciated, many people will become significantly poorer...' 

- andy beckett, guardian 14th feb 2022, 'britain's long consumer binge is ending'. 

yes horsemouth expects it to be thoroughly shit. boris is an opportunist who looked forward to conquering and keeping the north (post brexit) by means of a couple of rounds of splash the cash. but the tories lack the imagination for such a move, even if, post-covid, they had the cash to splash. except for gove, gove is smart and mad and gets it. 

like cassandra he will be able to see it all going wrong but be able to change nothing. instead what we will get is the further iteration of austerity as the tories do to the UK what the troika did to greece.

the alternative? some years of new labour recidivism under sir keir. 

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actually being written right now 16th feb, starting at 7:50am.

it's a greyish morning out horsemouth is up a bit early. today he goes to howard's. yesterday he spent a bit of time attempting to learn last kind word blues (geshee wiley - standard tuning) and you turn me on, I'm a radio (joni mitchell - open d). the joni mitchell is much more straightforward than her usual tunes, the geshee wiley he's going to have to bodge the fingerpicking. he watched a bit of the rivals of sherlock holmes  on tv and then some documentary shorts and interviews on youtube about michael mann (mostly about thief with a side order of manhunter). mann was a photographer (or, well at least, he took a lot of photographs) when he was younger, he worked a lot of jobs he saw a lot of skilled people at work. he became interested in process. this followed on from a walk and talk with TG.