a day in the life (of lemuria)

nightfall diaries (to steal a title)

'for most of horsemouth's friends if you don't use the term SF you are just a rube of some sort.  speculative fiction means you are pretentious (and don't want to admit you have been reading mere SF) and similarly if you should be caught drivelling on about 'third stream' or whatever it is called.'

horsemouth is listening to calibre  play - it's good (it's like LTJ bukem very smart). 

later tonight his brother (and his brother's family) arrive. (ok ok the youngest doesn't arrive until tomorrow). at some point this weekend (saturday probably)they will scatter horsemouth's father's ashes. they will probably scatter them into a hole and plant a tree/ shrub on top of them. dad was into growing things that makes sense to horsemouth. 

horsemouth and his mum think they have selected a spot. if it's acceptable to everyone horsemouth will get on with digging there tomorrow. 

he would have done it today but he had a headache most of today. he put the world at one on at one and attempted to snooze. he followed it up with a discussion of orwell.  he puts the headache down to the bottle of beer he had after the two zoom meetings on wednesday. (mind you he enjoyed the bottle of beer). 

he was listening to 'whistling' robbie basho (from songs of the great mystery: the lost vanguard sessions) and now he's listening to john coltrane from july 1965 live in paris (actually the bit he is listening to now is from the juan les pins jazz festival, antibes, july 27, 1965).

a day in the life (of lemuria) - the naturalist haeckel posited lemuria (a giant supercontinent) as a land bridge to explain the existence of lemurs on both sides of the pacific. it is the morning and horsemouth's brother's family are here (mostly). horsemouth has retreated to a bedroom with a cup of coffee. 

cleverly has owned up (and to some extent apologised) for calling north stockton a shithole. he now claims he wasn't calling north stockton a shithole but its MP a shithole (horsemouth fails to see how this is that much better).