more stalker-ish conditions (shoorah shoorah lag ja gale)

the sun shines nearly horizontally (it has just made it up over the hill opposite). giant clouds are blown about the skies. a soft and gentle rain falls. soon the sun will have risen up to the level of the clouds and a grey day will commence.

more stalker-ish conditions. but until that another olafur elaisson experiment in the valley.

horsemouth is up. so is his dad. horsemouth is unconvinced by his mum's 'upness'. 

tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of edmond de goncourt at champrosay (wikipedia says draveil) in 1896. he kept writing his journal until within 13 days of his death. 

so the bernie tormé version was a cover? (live and learn) shoorah! shoorah!

horsemouth watched a mark kermode documentary on the making of blade runner - there were some great clips - PKD decrying the philistinism of the american public and coming out with some quality  paranoiaballs. brian aldiss filmed in his garden vouching for this nutter. 

horsemouth can see two varieties of woodpecker from his window. he has his coffee. 

there's a tribute night to lata mangeshkar as part of the proms this year. here (well you'll have to go to youtube) horsemouth shares with you a lata vocal performance of  lag ja gale (great clip this - very bollywood but also very moody at the same time because it's in black and white). 

what's the fucking point

as merv says it is six years and one month since the grenfell fire  but still no charges.

meanwhile insulation made by kingspan, the firm that provided some of the combustible foam on the tower, was discovered last week on the adair and hazelwood towers, a few hundred metres from grenfell. this is despite the fact that In 2021 the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) announced a ban on use of the firm’s products in borough projects.

residents of the council-owned towers have been enduring a £7m recladding project to install non-combustible panels after fire risk assessments in 2018 identified “potential concerns with the cladding system”. 

so, to recap,  even though it was banned by the council it was still installed by the contractors.

so what's the fucking point.