'poverty can hide in london better than anywhere else'

one of the first things horsemouth does when he gets up in the morning is to check the clock in the kitchen. this is because he does not want to be getting up too early (much before 7am) or too late (much after). he is a great fan of the daylight and tries to see as much of it as possible. 

horsemouth has opened his curtains - this is probably the first thing he does when he gets up in the morning. the binmen have been (and by the looks of it they have emptied the bin and taken the recycling). hail the binmen (truly the people who make our wasteful lives possible). 

'poverty can hide in london better than anywhere else' - ernest dowson

horsemouth has been reading jad adams' biography of dowson (poet, decadent and translator) and the short-lived london decadent scene. oscar wilde is around (and then he is not). aubrey beardsley refuses to design the cover for dowson's translation of la fille aux yeux d'or (because conder had done the illustrations) but beardsley does illustrate dowson's pierrot of the minute. 

dowson goes and hides in the french countryside to try to live more cheaply and get more done (at pont aven in brittany - horsemouth has a biscuit tin from there - it is wheat country). 

john (from porto) was due to phone (he did not - maybe later). in a bit horsemouth will wander out for his morning constitutional. 

yesterday's excitement was that horsemouth had an item removed and destroyed by facebook cybersecurity. they haven't told him what item yet (so he doesn't know what he did 'wrong'). maybe he has impugned the good name of some tory politician if such a thing is possible.