a howard chill mix from 9th december 2021

starting soon the horsemouth on the golden glow guest DJ season (12th, 18th, 24th december) 

but don't worry there are also plenty of other mixes with the selection by howard.

so the best laid plans of mice - horsemouth is delayed in the countryside. he will be back in the wen on wednesday. he's just been for two walks - one over to the abbey, round by the river and back , the other up dick's pitch onto the common and round by the track overlooking ewyas harold to the prospect and back. this time as he returned down hill he did not fall over in the mud. 

we are roughly 11 days off the solstice, when we turn a corner in the long dark tunnel and begin to  head up towards the light. we are roughly 21 days (3 weeks) from the end of this calendar year 2020(3) and the start of the new one 2020(4). normally horsemouth bemoans the previous year and says he cannot wait to get it gone.  

2020 (year zero - the pandemic year) is the year that changes it for horsemouth - he is riding out his dead end job to the end of the rails and is perfectly happy (if a little grumpy) to do so. but then the pandemic intervenes and offs his alibi job, they offer him a little redundancy, he takes it. he has neglected to provide himself with a second stream of income but he has thoroughly learnt the lesson of the pandemic - it is possible to live on very little. 

we thus move from the year of his redundancy 2020(1) to the first year of his retirement 2020(2). 

and this is the pattern he is in for the first four months of the year 2020(3) - reading, lounging around, farting about on the internet. and then he gets the phonecall - his dad is ill, he goes back to the wilds of herefordshire to help out, but his dad's cancer has been caught too late and he dies while undergoing chemotherapy. there is then the arranging of the cremation to be done and then there is his mum to be supported through the changing times. that is the next four months.

then there is the last four months of the year (the 'embers') when he has essentially replicated his retirement lifestyle in the countryside (with about four weeks or so of 'holiday' in the horsemouth city). 

in 2020(4) the pattern for the next few years will come into being. 

black crow white poop 

this is what horsemouth has just observed. the sun is up the sky is blue. horsemouth thinks he will post this up now and then return to it if he has any more thoughts. 

so the day that horsemouth is NOT in the wen. it is a monday. 

in preparation for the horsemouth on the golden glow guest DJ season horsemouth listened to his selections from the 12th december 2021 (12.12.2021). it's not the best of his selections (but it's pretty damn good).