january friday 13th - on the elasticity of calendars

horsemouth has escaped the clutches of friday the 13th. (frankly it is good to get the dread day out of the way so early).  but it is not the friday the 13th, there can be multiple friday the 13th's in a year, this year we are due another one in october.  friday october 13th 2023. 

thereafter it is friday april 13th 2024 and friday december 13th 2024 and thence off into the mists of future time. (horsemouth guesses that it resembles the repeat patterns of when you can reuse diaries where leap years play a significant role).  apparently there will be three friday the 13ths in 2026. 

last night (well, this morning really) he dreamt of a whodunnit film set in a stately home based on a true story. it had been made into a film twice said the dream. horsemouth is unsure about the current wave of posho murder films - it seems more cult of the celebrities rather than the aristos. horsemouth would like to say that the plebs just want to see the aristos murdered but it is not that - it is more that they would like to take a holiday in a fantasy life of the rich. 

horsemouth seems beset by memories of his failings (this is because he hasn't dealt with them). of course the sooner you deal with them the sooner you are free of them. the knots of your being must allow for some motion. on the other hand some things do not easily resolve. (schneiderman's book on lacan goes well).

horsemouth supposes that the communal endeavour's engagement with the gods of housing is kind of like the deal in bedazzled (peter cook and dudley moore play faust for laughs) - it just keeps getting worse, you think you are getting one thing (in fact you are getting another). at the moment he is trying to stretch his head round the money or rather make the money stretch round the things his head wants to do with it. 

and of course while he is doing this the money warps in time - the government have just announced that the decision date on the social housing decarbonisation fund is to move back a month or two (just like that to quote the old magical formula). of course it is not clear yet whether the end date will similarly move (and thus whether horsemouth and his band of povs will have to find more money for their share of it in less time). 

today a grim grey day. horsemouth will go out for a wander at some point no doubt.