as able a summation of the situation as is possible

 'like with everything they f**k up, they then try to direct discontent at individual organisations rather than systemic problems'

so remarked a friend on the government way of handling things. this, in horsemouth's view, is as able a summation of the situation as is possible. 

today. rain all day. 

tomorrow. fine decent weather (and thereafter fine decent weather out towards the weekend).  

later today his brother and family arrive ready for horsemouth's father's  cremation service tomorrow. remind horsemouth to hurry up and finish off his speech and take care of any last niggling details.  

last night beers. horsemouth and his mum had delayed the traditional wednesday evening beer to thursday evening (because thursday was due to be a busy day). and so it proved. horsemouth and his mum listened to music (horsemouth had moved the mini-system into the kitchen) and then they watched the wedding scene from the deerhunter (abandoning the movie when it took the depressing turn of the friends being POWs in vietnam). strangely earlier horsemouth watched the first half hour of godfather II (another wedding scene). 

horsemouth has been and watered in the greenhouse. his mum has been out and let out the chickens (they are talking about getting more chickens - the enclosure and the shed (a coop horsemouth believes the term is) are certainly big enough). she's just been out again to feed them the scraps from the kitchen. 

nothing from kafka today. kilvert has something for tomorrow.