'he advised me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised. he said it would be a very good exercise, and would yield me infinite satisfaction when the ideas were faded from my remembrance.' - james boswell's london journal, 16th july 1763 (so 260 years ago today!).
boswell's is a london journal so horsemouth (out here in the green) has been more likely to read kilvert's journal (mostly about clyro which is just up the road near hay).
as horsemouth has mentioned before his human handler has been publishing horsemouth's reviews of various books on good reads as if they were his own. lately he has been going back to the historic blogs and copy-pasting these reviews together.
don't encourage him by reading them!
in the world of decarbonisation things have gone quiet (at least over the weekend). it looks like the development is done and committed to (now all that remains is to do the actual development). horsemouth has won the argument (twenty years too late for it to do any good but never mind).
broadly horsemouth has wanted for a long time to increase the number of people housed permanently (or in communal endeavour owned accommodation) because it enables the commune to get more money in when it has a rent rise and so it gives the commune greater financial stability against the slings and arrows of outrageous capitalism.
for the decarbonisation he should do more of the reading. if there is to be a shift in roles (as is proposed) horsemouth needs to understand that new role better - it is a more responsible role (and thus a more potentially dangerous role).
now horsemouth et al. could add some flats in blocks to the decarbonisation pile (of houses and flats in houses) - but at some point the lease-owners of the blocks are going to want to do their own decarbonisation works and will bill the leaseholders (in this case horsemouth et al.) in their buildings (and disproportionately probably - councils (who built the blocks originally) and housing management organisations have a distressing habit of rinsing leaseholders for the lion's share of the cost of any repairs required).
these properties may though be useful if the consortium have to get the numbers back up but horsemouth wonders about the wisdom of paying twice to insulate these flats (even if the works are limited, even if the government is paying for half of these works). in fact if the works that can be done are limited that might be an advantage - additional numbers at not much expense.
anyway - he's floated it, he's identified the properties, there will be a time to have the chat.
today rain at some point then fine in the afternoon/ evening. his mum has just gone into town. his dad is sleeping.
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