horsemouth planning out of the year to come (time will tell)

horsemouth has begun the planning out of the year to come.

his new day a page 2023 diary begins on the 30th (richard's open day)  and shortly thereafter john is around (2nd of january onwards). he has marked both of these. 

similarly with the countryfile calendar he has marked the week we are currently in (as a run in to january). the equinoxes and the solstices (he should probably add the celtic quarter days). 

his existing diary covers the year from the 15th of august 2022 onwards (due to the premature disintegration of his main 2022 diary) in a small black notebook given him by TG). when horsemouth returns to the wen he will place it (with due reverence) with his box of diaries (which is now too small for its allocated task).  the diaries themselves will not tell you much (booking times, client initials, lists) 

another example of his planning is that he has constructed a table of the expenses likely to be involved with delivering the decarbonisation within the communal endeavour  over the next 2 1/2 years (roughly). now, assuming the bid is accepted and everything goes smoothly, there is the pre-procurement phase from april until the end of september 2023, then there is the procurement phase the last 3 months of 2023, the whole of 2024 and the the first 3 months of 2025. 

plus there are the estimates of the actual costs of the works themselves as they occur during the procurement phase. . 

given this and the costs it is possible to work out the amount to be spent in each month and thus the amount to be spent in each year. now these you need to now because you need to be able to source that money up front from the reserves to pay for the works to be done. 

of course you need that money up front - but perhaps not all of it. in theory as the works are done and signed off the government pays for half (assuming all their requirements - PAS 2035/2030 etc. have been met). 

a lot depends upon the budget for 2023 - horsemouth looks forward to seeing this. 

this, ladies and gentlemen, looks like the best part of his 2023. (plus there will be the other usual collective endeavour anxieties and activities). and this is only the stage one of the decarbonisation.

he hasn't particularly thought about the music. the stuff with catastro/FILLE  will happen when it happens (that's part of the deal for making it happen). howard is making noises about wanting to do something in the guitar duo line. again time will tell.

one thing about linda perhacs is that she said she suddenly realised that if she didn't make a second album (and soon) it wouldn't get done. horsemouth was having a re-listen to  volume four and the demos himself and howard recorded in april. and then there's the demos of howard's tracks he has heard. there's enough there certainly.