'I burnt my first two notebooks...'

'a year ago today at B's instigation, I burnt my first two notebooks. in this year the whole axis of my life has changed. I have found 'the one thing necessary''. - antonia white, diaries 1926-1957, 21st march 1948.

'... I wrote nothing yesterday, that I keep getting farther and farther from it, and am in danger of losing everything I have laboriously achieved these past six months.' -franz kafka, diaries, 13th march 1915.

what kafka writes is a diary of not  being able to write. for example, in our parallel timelines, 2024 to 1915, he will write something tomorrow and then not be able to write for a long time. 

ultimately he wanted it all burned anyway (excepting the published work). 

horsemouth gives the advice he should perhaps take (make a timetable).  

he looks at the blank page in his diary for the day. 

horsemouth is grumpy. the second campaign of assessing the houses of the communal endeavour is about to happen. 

hopefully they will see the houses they haven't seen yet (and talk to the people they haven't talked to yet). hopefully no one will be missed out and require a later visit at great expense. 

ok phew good everyone has gotten back to the assessors. it  looks like everything will happen and roll on. 

more loft insulation. this will  probably be the measure that is done first (a quick and cheap win). 

thereafter people are essentially free to chose. 

if it's government money (social housing decarbonisation fund) then they are limited to insulation (a fabric based approach), but it's looking like there will be no government money so people will essentially be free to chose any measure/ collection of measures that gets the property up to an EPC C. they will probably chose solar panels (monorail) because this is the measure that means they have to move the least amount of their stuff out of the way. 

of course horsemouth doesn't think installing solar panels will be as easy and as effective as people imagine (but we will see or rather, we will EPC C). 

and the communal endeavour will have properties that have passed EPC C standard  before 2030 and everyone will rejoice and be happy (and  no one need be any the warmer and not one gram less of  carbon will be emitted into the atmosphere but HIST on that). 

horsemouth supposes that external insulation (applied to the outside surfaces of the building) is the next least intrusive measure. (thereafter we are into intrusive measures that require workers to be inside the building).

pardon horsemouth for thinking out loud here. he is adjusting (sideways) his expectations. he's been for a walk and had a bottle of beer. now it has gone dark and horsemouth's day is officially over. he is free. 

this evening (and thursday evening). a documentary on boris's career - less in the sense of steady progress, more in the sense of a careen. is I claudius a bigger influence on him than churchill? 

and he's back. for fucksake.  him and lord cameron of brexit. please just let us get to the end of the decline and fall of the roman empire without a nuclear war.