yesterday horsemouth walked over to the nearest village with a shop to purchase a jar of pickles (and confirm that his card is still working).
wednesday (so today when you read this) his aunt and uncle are coming (maybe) to take his mum over to keep the ancestor's graves clean in sunny stoke prior churchyard. horsemouth (with the other hand) will be delivering eggs (in the afternoon)
thursday is not clear. horsemouth hopes not very much.
the surveyor is coming friday - house, buildings (garage, chickenshed, woodshed, 2 greenhouses), land (two fields up a fairly steep hill). sunday horsemouth is travelling back to the wen.
horsemouth was intrigued to see that three of his friends share a birthday. oh dear. someone unfortunate has just popped up with happy birthday wishes. hmm. this could be problematic. (at the very least the one would not wish to see the other.)
horsemouth is up. it is a rainy grey day (not properly rainy until the afternoon but particularly good for visiting the ancestors).
the house is heated by an oil-fueled aga/raeburn type stove in the kitchen that runs the radiators and a wood-burner in the front room.
the oil in the tank has gone down by 18cms in the 9 weeks since horsemouth got it refueled, there is 50cms remaining (with some margin of a week or two for resupply) so that's another 25 weeks worth at current rates of usage. if it gets colder however usage will be higher. horsemouth's plan is to try to time it so they do a big re-order in spring/ summer when the price of oil tends to be lower (but he thinks he will fail).
ah good the paracetamol and the coffee are dealing with his headache. horsemouth will nip downstairs and refuel on the coffee.
more 'whistling' robbie basho.
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