no end to the blindness (a vote of no confidence)

'there's no difference between inside and outside, between here and there, between the many and the few, between what we are living through and what we shall have to live through, and the people how are they coping, asked the girl with dark glasses, they go around like ghosts...' - jose saramago, blindness. 

if there is a vote of no confidence called by the labour party (no there won't be boris has blocked it) many conservative MPs will be in the unfortunate logical position of voting signifying their confidence in boris to rule when they have already deposed him. 

boris the conservative party has left in downing street (with strict instructions not to touch anything). already the campaign is afoot to turn him into a deposed holy martyr of brexit. 

meanwhile the parliamentary tory party are rapidly winnowing down the field of his would be successors - ideally they would end up with two candidates going out to the members, one the candidate the parliamentary tory party want, the other a no-hope schmuck to alibi the first, maybe jeremy hunt can be persuaded to run again? 

horsemouth was wrong - it's 55 days of no government.  it's 5th september that government returns by which time TFL will have had to make savage cuts.

horsemouth should really avoid the news. it changes so rapidly (but in such a way as to prevent actual change). 

horsemouth is into the last few chapters of blindness (he will be sad to see it go). the characters have returned to the places where they went blind (when we first met them). they meet a writer. 

yesterday a grey over-clouded day (but still hot and sticky). today looks like it will be similar. for now it is very pleasant. ideally horsemouth would be by the seaside and going swimming (not that he swims very well or can swim for long). instead he will have to make do with cold showers. 

there's a lot of covid about at the minute (it would seem from horsemouth's friends). horsemouth wishes everyone a speedy recovery and  recommends staying out of the way (if possible). 

the EPC (energy performance certificate) for horsemouth's house has arrived (it's a D). 

it contains helpful suggestions on improvements he could make, their likely costs and the effect they would have - it holds that eventually the house could be a B. all this is helpful info as horsemouth contemplates the struggle to make winter bearable. it provides some different typical costs for the measures from the estimates horsemouth has used. 

today horsemouth has an interview about some cat-sitting. the cat will no doubt ask him some tough questions (particularly since horsemouth has shoo-ed it away from D+C's on a number of occasions). it is certainly beautiful out there. humanity you are beautiful.