horsemouth the clothes horse

ok horsemouth is on the first coffee. 

if texas were a sovereign state, it would have the 10th-largest economy in the world (california similarly - it would be the world's fifth largest economy). a friend fishes in the brazos river. it is currently baking in a heatwave (as is much of the US clear across to california). heatwaves and wildfires too in spain, portugal and the south of france. 

in the US air-conditioning is a big thing, and big drawer of power in summer. in the UK less so. here everyone is worried (as far as they can ever believe that they will ever be cold again) with how they are going to heat their homes over winter. 

horsemouth has stumbled over bookpilled's main hustle which is reselling clothing he finds in thrift stores (the reselling books he finds in thrift stores/ library sales is just a side-hustle). presumably this covers his rent way down in san diego. bookpilled thoughtfully provides you with a guide to which brands to buy - things that are specifically fishing wear or riding wear or outdoor brands (climbers, cyclists, hikers) sell through he tells us. he provides us with advice in doing the packaging and posting. 

horsemouth used to have a little l.l.bean blue rucksack (a US outdoors brand of which people in the UK are unaware) it went west, currently he has a north face,  he also has a north face fleece (in a rather unfetching orange).  he has a cheap trick and a motorhead t-shirt, a neil young and crazy horse, a gwenifer raymond, a leigh folk festival. other than that he doesn't think he has too many branded and reputable clothes. 

horsemouth has too many clothes (like he has too many books) he could do with doing another clearing out. he had one purge about a year ago when he was doing his end of work spring clean. before that he's last had a clear out 6 years ago when he was moving flat. 

he keeps letting people give him shirts (which he doesn't very much wear). he has plenty of jumpers and fleeces, t-shirts and pairs of jeans. horsemouth, in summer, is a t-shirt and shorts man, in winter he is a t-shirt, jumper, jeans man. this winter he suspects it will be a woolly hats indoors sort of winter. he has various sleeping bags (he suspects he will be using those this winter also). 

clothes aren't the big thing with horsemouth.

horsemouth's part of the house is the coolest in summer (but it is also the coldest in winter).  in the last few years horsemouth has been able to run the central heating with little demure (iain as a scot claims not to want it on, daryll claims not to use it) and this has kept his lungs in good condition. last year he had to economise on the heating and this year it will cost him twice as much (at least) to heat the building so horsemouth doubts that he wants to do it (of course if it snows or freezes he may have to give in). 

he certainly has too many guitars and musical instruments (one 12-string, one resonator, 3 acoustics, 2 classical, 2 electrics, a lap steel, a bass guitar, two harmoniums (one dead, one alive), two keyboards, a glockenspiel, a banjolin, a thumb piano , an autoharp, a melodica, a cymbal, a marching drum, a rainstick etc. etc.).  

a while ago he investigated re-selling on some of his books (the art ones were reasonably valuable the philosophy ones were basically worthless).