to love and be loved in return

horsemouth saw the abyssinians  at a hackney show on hackney downs in 1989. it is only today that he realised this is a version of nature boy by eden ahbez. at the time he was a bigger fan of abendigo (shadrach, mishna and abendigo). 

yesterday was bandcamp friday but horsemouth and howard were not around to solicit your purchase of their recordings instead, having taken the train to chingford, the plan was to be up in epping forest (wandering around in nature). 

when howard arrived he was hungry so he got a menemen for breakfast (horsemouth had a latte just to keep him company) and then they set off. eventually having circumnavigated half of the 8 shaped route they lay about in  the sunshine on a hill before  they retraced their steps (roughly 6 miles all told).  they returned to chingford and caught the train to walthamstow for a post walk pint (or two) up in the village (a point equidistant between where horsemouth is staying and howard's railway station in queen's road). 

horsemouth tramped home (up the hill and past the neighbours' yappy dog) and lay around before going to bed early. 

it is for this reason that he is up so early (having been woken by feline importuning). 

before bed he hunted around for clips from pink floyd/ barbet schroeder’s film la vallée / obscured by clouds which is kind of like the beach (youth go off in search of paradise/ it all goes pete tong). apparently miquette giraudy (of gong and steve hillage fame) worked on it. 

today grey skies and possible rain (rain later for certain). horsemouth should get on with reading the life of napoleon. horsemouth will nip up to the allotment to make sure the plants in the mini-greenhouse have been watered and to lift some rocket. 

p.s. horsemouth has checked the sue ryder lottery (he didn't win anything).