‘it is not so easy to live a life as it is to cross a field’ (eulogy)

it is done. horsemouth's father has been laid to rest.

horsemouth managed to deliver his eulogy speech. (which as his brother points out mean good words). the speech was based on the eulogy horsemouth gave closer to the time on facebook but he made some additions. 

'43 years ago this tuesday we, as a family, moved to the golden valley. the house, the gardens, the fields it was a fulfilment of my mum and dad’s dream - to live in the countryside, to be self-sufficient – something halfway between The Good Life and Survivors.' 

as you know horsemouth has recently been rewatching survivors. he has not rewatched the good life in an age but it is absolutely in that trend of self-sufficiency. 

having done the task horsemouth feels the release of it. 

later horsemouth held forth at the dinner table and then later still stayed up chatting to katie while he drank too much beer. (he doesn't feel too bad on it this morning)

earlier there had been some attempt to restart dad's truck but the battery had gone flat and the jump leads could not be found. in the garden horsemouth discovered an unwelcome visitor - a thorn apple (the devil's trumpet), joe identified it with an app on his phone. he has evicted it and chucked it over the fence (and dug down a little to try and get out the root). he thinks there may be a second one. he doesn't take it as an evil omen.

'the earliest thing we have of my dad’s is his stamp collection.

probably the next earliest thing is a copy of dr. zhivago he bought with the book token he was given for winning the french prize at his school.  

from this I take the line;

‘it is not so easy to live a life as it is to cross a field’  an old russian proverb (allegedly).'