'what is the purpose of my incarnation? what is my gift to the world?' - verdant vanille in from this video I will never be the same again.
at the more angsty end of the cottage fairy genre (girl in nice frock, living in small home, wanders round forest picking flowers and talking about mindfulness, slow living, and loving oneself) is verdant vanille. she is an ex masseuse used to the high life but now she struggles with self-employment and living up in the mountains in winter. a typical verdant vanille video involves her going for a camping trip in the forest (she has all the best kit and a giant battery/ power pack to keep her devices charged) but there's a storm and she ends up sleeping in her car. it's just not as smooth as all the other productions.
of an evening horsemouth will typically watch a few of these or politics podcasts - rory stewart and alistair campbell, a novara media thing, this replaces the LRB sponsored talking politics david runciman that carried horsemouth throughout the pandemic.
the other major go to genre is the SF book blogs - book pilled and outlaw bookseller. outlaw is a new wave of SF fan, matt at book pilled is more a younger hard/ classic SF fan. from book pilled horsemouth moved on to his thrift a life clothing reseller channel - the main pleasure here is less the guide to what clothing brands are worth buying in charity shops to resell (and how much to pay) it is in vicariously enjoying matt's struggle for survival. he's a smart cookie (but he's beset with health problems). he's a former stand up comic, he has worked in a writing mill generating spurious 'content', he has a nicely dry line on everything. he's getting out of the reseller game and setting off to live somewhere cheaper and become a youtuber.
horsemouth's original plan (if you remember) was to retire and go live somewhere cheaper (at least for part of the year) but life got in the way.
the specific bit of life that got in the way was the communal endeavour and in particular the social housing decarbonisation fund. now horsemouth likes the notion of him doing his bit (smart boy that he was) to prevent global warming by encouraging the housing co-op he is in to decarbonise. 15% of UK greenhouse gas emissions come from housing in its normal operation (mostly from heating the properties with gas boilers) - the target is for the UK as a whole to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. horsemouth already knows two things about this target - the government will not meet it and it is too late anyhow.
he would at least like to put the co-op in a position to hit this target earlier.
before this he had other hopes for the endeavour. these mostly revolved around increasing the number of people housed in co-op owned property (as opposed to short-life property leased from other housing providers). with a bit of luck horsemouth will achieve this (but alas too little too late to make as much difference as he had hoped).
this evening horsemouth goes to present at the AGM of the communal endeavour. he's got to sell them a rent rise (happy happy joy joy)
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