animals are blameless (humans less so)

'totally impressive reading list, which puts me to shame, and a pub lunch to boot. nice.'

horsemouth publishes and then discusses his books read and films watched list for the month.  he will share it with the wider world shortly (not that the wider world are interested). 

well it is an entire month in the countryside and horsemouth hasn't read all of them in their entirety. the gabriel mckee on PKD it was only the first 20 pages available on google books. the kilvert/boswell and kafka diaries horsemouth is just reading in the years marked as the dates come up (in an event to spread out the pleasures of reading them and to give himself something to blog about). the first three books in the list are recent purchases from hay (at great expense largely) and so he has been making an effort to read them (and will probably finish two out of three of them by the time the month ends). 

horsemouth had to say the pub lunch rocked (largely because he got in a sneaky pint). 

as usual when he started writing the list he was convinced he had read nothing but when he came to examine it it turned out to be a reasonable month.

over in texas it has been raining. this is good news. they have been stuck under some kind of 'heat dome' forever. 

animals are blameless (opines horsemouth). they simply do what they do as they feel it. human beings are considerably more complicated and may be held to moral account for their actions because they may be reasoned with. for these reasons it is a lot easier to love animals than it is humans. 

up on the common horsemouth met gareth (and his dog). him and his partner are renting a house near the village (having lived in london and having moved up from kent). they wanted to be further over and in wales itself. 

it's a monday. but it's a bank holiday monday. little will be moving. today is also the anniversary of the release of hergest ridge (horsemouth believes).  nope it's actually the 2nd of september - he'll do his encomium then.