'it is sufficient for me to relate events without analysing causes'

remarks the disturbed young man in h.p. lovecraft's the tomb. 

here horsemouth is stuck for relatable events. (he may have to revert to analysing causes).

yesterday a failure to launch kind of day. horsemouth went out and snoozed in the shade in the park. he patrolled the neighbourhood several times, checking first the book bins and later the dustbins for discarded quality newspapers.  (there were some people on the high road in the habit of chucking out the FT weekend section). some progress was made with the reading of the master and margarita. 

horsemouth's room is very cool and quiet, it makes it difficult to want to get out onto the sun-fried streets.

in the islamic calendar (a lunar one and thus roughly 10 days shorter than the solar calendar that we may be more familiar with) the new year has begun and we are just exiting the first 10 days of the year (these have especial significance). 

the depopulation of the east continues; 

'most of the five million people who emigrated during the first two decades of putin’s rule were under forty; almost all had university degrees (92 per cent) and a significant proportion had PhDs (14 per cent). since february, hundreds of thousands more have bolted.'

the greatest lack a country can have is a lack of people to do the work. it means the work will have to be done elsewhere, other countries will get the benefit of it, and some other government will get the taxes on it. 

horsemouth was due a wander round with TG but he is late back. horsemouth will try and get out for a wander round early.