'out of the woods' so to speak

'can't see my way clear. as though everything I possessed had escaped me, and as though it would hardly satisfy me if it all returned.' - franz kafka, diaries, 16th february 1915. 

the london overground train lines are to be renamed

horsemouth has used them a lot. (but of course less so since he stopped work).  there is a plan afoot to rename them. 

so the suffragette line? horsemouth is reconciled to it (now that he has found a song for it). 

horsemouth sometimes uses that line when he's in walthamstow and wants to get over to howard's via barking. he could use it to get out to barking riverside (a station he has never been to). he will make use of the weaver line to go over to his brother's in highams park from clapton, and to get back to clapton from liverpool street. he no longer uses the mildmay line much beyond highbury and islington.  the windrush line he might use to get to gigs dahn sahf. 

he has made use of crossrail a lot (aka. 'the elizabeth line' or 'the lizard line' depending on who you talk too). mostly for the paddington- liverpool street journey. 

the buses he tends to use less these days. if it is walkable (within 1 hour say) horsemouth will probably walk it. 

and, of course, he has been spending rather a lot of time out in the wilds of herefordshire and this has further curtailed his use of rapid mass transit. 

at some point horsemouth will be back in the wen and at some point in the future he will be making use of his 60+ london oyster photocard. he will then start haring across the city to go and sit in the royal festival hall or some art gallery or other eating sandwiches and drinking tea from a thermos flask. (sorry he's having a little cosmopolitan fantasy there). 

if he travels out to herefordshire (or back) he will be using his senior railcard. he has been investigating the hereford to paddington (via oxford) route, cheaper than the abergavenny to paddington (via newport) route. he assumes once he has his senior railcard the saving will be less important. 

a beautiful golden sunrise a few minutes ago but now the sun is ascending up into the clouds, it is much further down the horizon (it is 'out of the woods' so to speak). 

'the message on the doorstep was the same everywhere I went, voters hate all of us.' - labour activist.

the tories have lost the two by-elections (in former safe tory seats) but with low voter turnout. the tory voters are staying home but that means they could still come out at a general election.