so 2022 goes out and 2023 comes in

horsemouth is back in hackney in time for the new year for the first time in many years. for many of the last few new years he has stayed in or gone and visited his parents to be out of the way.  

having given some spare change to a homeless dude he decided to walk back (liverpool street overground station was shut down). and because he walked back (and because the universe was smiling upon him)  he bumped into sam hug (on the top of brick lane) and then german mick on the top of broadway market (long time no see people). by pub on the park he met up with tim goldie and then walked back over with him. when they got back to horsemouth's gaff he  tried to give away some shirts. 

(as he always say) if he is going to get mobile he needs to potlatch loads of shit. 

horsemouth has had several cups of tea, half a bar of chocolate and most of a cheap pizza. he has stuck a wash on. he will wait until tomorrow to hang 2023's countryfile calendar, the 2023 diary he has already started using (though he hasn't quite finished with the 2022 diary just yet). it begins on the 30th december 2022 - so for a few days horsemouth will be in the handover. 

he drew a little on the train. his journey back was uneventful.

2022 goes and 2023 comes in - horsemouth is not sure how he will handle it yet. 

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from here on in horsemouth re-posts his summary of the year (but tidied up a little).

horsemouth has had an even more moderate year than last year in terms of cultural production. 

he did only one gig last year at waterintobeer way back in february (as a split show with howard).thanks to martin for putting them. 

horsemouth did a little recording with howard in 2022 (but it languishes unfinished on soundcloud). howard recorded an EP of songs in the summer and will record more of his solo stuff over christmas (so look out for that in the new year). horsemouth played some guitar and some bass on a track by catastro/FILLE (this is available upon request). 

musical instrument-wise horsemouth is up a 12 string guitar and a small (and somewhat parched sounding) rainstick. he can't remember if the glockenspiel  was a this year purchase or even earlier. 

horsemouth was involved in no golden glow mixes in 2022 (and indeed they may all be vanishing due to a change in mixcloud policy so listen to them before they go).

2022 was his first full year of retirement. 

he kept on writing this blog. in 2021 he saw an AI powered voice over/ text reading service advertised on youtube. in 2022 he saw an AI that offered to assist you with writing your blogs.  

he read a fair bit (though not with the concentrated effort that he has managed in previous years). he watched a lot of films (mostly giallos, horrors, and ghost stories). he didn't listen to much music (his amplifier needs replacing). he listened to webb david's techno-dub show on new river radio, and the CDs of the new albums by the robert lawson trio as they arrived. he spent a lot of time waiting for the hawkbinge podcasts to come out. he watched a lot of thrift a life (even though he was wearing a DIJ t-shirt one time) and outlaw bookseller. 

he did a fair amount of walking (often with TG, sometimes with ayesha). he stopped doing the child-minding. 

in 2022 the decarbonisation of social housing has become the main thing.

he's probably not doing enough to prevent boredom but he has been spending his way through the redundancy cheque, an advance on the pension and his works pension (small though it is).he is in fact spending hardly any money at all (except for rent).

he bought far fewer second hand books and fewer CDs than he would have in a normal year, book boxes have replaced second-hand bookshops in his affections. 

his homestead (the gaff) has taken a further dive over christmas whilst he was away. the living room is once again fucked. there's some stuff in the corridors. the back garden has been fucked. horsemouth no longer gives a shit. the front garden has at least been cleared.

he continued cooking more regularly (but a limited range of dishes). he continues to be a lazy, morally compromised, lacto-vegetarian. 

for yet another year he didn’t manage a foreign holiday (but as in 2022 he hopes to manage one in 2023, indeed he announced it as part of his plan for the year). he spent a lot of time at his folks (which has been good).  

horsemouth thanks howard, enza, catastro/FILLE for joining him in his creative endeavours and all who have read, watched, listened to him, or liked or commented on the things he has produced (thank you people, horsemouth is very grateful).