horsemouth is back from being useful. he likes to feel useful.

horsemouth is back from being useful. he likes to feel useful.

a walk. a spot of childminding. another walk. a meeting of the co-operative (quickly conducted). a walk. more childminding. parent arrives. a glass of campari. horsemouth walks back.

there is rather a lot of walking in this life. there was some time-killing in the midst of it all.  it was a beautiful sunny day. everybody was hanging out being beautiful. horsemouth rested in a shady garden and he lay out sunbathing in a park. 

he's enjoying listening to jacken elswyth's shruti box and banjo tune scene 6, after margaret barry from six static scenes (and very good it is too). 

in other tune news horsemouth was inspired to investigate how much is that doggie in the window which turns out to be a variation on the neapolitan folk tune called o mamma, mamma cara called carnival of venice upon which paganini wrote a number of variations. 

in australian schoolyards it is sung thus : "a doggy stole a sausage, cos he was underfed the butcher saw him do it, and now that doggy's dead and all the little doggies, were very sad that night they built for him a tombstone, and on it they did write..." – repeated, ad nauseam.

there was an owen hatherley article on crossrail that horsemouth read,  a transport planning friend remonstrated with horsemouth's pessimistic view of it all. of course,  horsemouth conceded it will massively relieve the central line (and this is good) but transport infrastructure planning doesn't happen in a vacuum it has social and economic effects (and similarly with cutting bus routes, looks like TFL are cutting bus routes round horsemouth's way).  overall the tendency of the changes and infrastructure works are to gentrify the city, rent levels rise when transport improves and this tends to drive the poor out of the city and into neighbouring cities and boroughs. 

today a cool rainy morning.('sunny intervals and a gentle breeze' claim the bbc).