it is bandcamp friday (or it will be by the time you read this). horsemouth thinks you own everything by musicians of bremen already but if you don't you could buy some more of that. please download it when you do buy it (just in case it should vanish at some point in the future). failing that please consider buying something from one of horsemouth's many friends who make music - robert lawson's excellent lunaphone zither music from far off riogordo for example.
on yesterday's walk on the common horsemouth was paused at the fussell bench (he had taken the kafka diaries out with him). there he met robert. robert was out walking his two dogs - an elderly black lab and a (sort of) scottie of multiple provenance (called scruffy). they had a brief chat (about whether horsemouth was local, about the litterers of the common, about robert's belated discovery of walter scott, he had read ivanhoe first and was now reading kenilworth).
it would probably go well with the young queen elizabeth drama series horsemouth is watching with his mum. (dastardly deeds and the young queen).
there's plenty of john le carré about his parents' house too (that would probably go well with the philby, burgess, maclean thing that is on). horsemouth is always on the look out for stuff he can watch with his mum that he will find interesting.
4th august 1870 kilvert is still in cornwall but the holiday is coming to an end 'in the afternoon I walked about the grounds taking a farewell of all my favourite places.'
4th august 1763 boswell is also taking leave 'this is now my last day in london before I set out on my travels, and makes a very important period in my journal.' he will be back (but he doesn't know it yet).
kafka is not leavetaking. he has stuck and now has to deal with this. 'you've made your bed, now lie in it.'
yesterday was hot and sunny. it looked like a storm was going to hit but it never quite did. yesterday evening horsemouth got the scanner and the laptop working together and scanned some photos of his dad that his mum had chosen. this afternoon he has to get on with phoning the relatives and letting them know about the funeral arrangements (his brother has done some emailing round for those with emails). he has shaved off his moustache (and succeeded in cutting his nose and had to put a plaster on it to stop it bleeding everywhere).
horsemouth will probably get out for another walk as soon as he has had breakfast. he has been out to water the plants in the greenhouse already (the tomatoes are doing well, the cucumbers horsemouth is less interested in, there's a solitary basil plant that is rapidly going to seed). himself and his mum spent some time clearing where the broad beans and the first row of peas had been (preserving the occasional self-seeded tomato plant just in case).
next friday horsemouth is in a meeting on zoom (hopefully) to roll the rock of decarbonisation up over the hill of bureaucracy. horsemouth has not reached the point where he thinks it is a lost cause. he always recognised that it was going to be difficult.
the alternative is for the members of the communal endeavour to pay for all of it themselves out of their rent money. it would be good to get ahead of the curve of climate change and decarbonisation. last year's blazing summer and stinging heating bills over winter were good motivation. this years rainy summer and falling bills are perhaps less motivating. but then the TV (record breaking heatwaves, forest fires, floods) should help.
the bbc weather says possibly sunny this afternoon, rainy day (off and on) saturday, possibly decent sunday and monday. horsemouth will endeavour to get out for a wander this morning and get on with various tasks in the afternoon.
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