BELTANE (international workers day)

when it is the morning horsemouth will go around changing the calendars.

his dore abbey calendar will show a cross on the roof. the countryfile calendar (two copies - office and kitchen) will show a somewhat crazed sheep. his brother and his wife's calendar downstairs (dining room) will show his brother, and his wife, and their youngest high above the river in porto. 

horsemouth has been transferring events to his diary. 

wednesday may 1st - egg delivery, take down the rubbish to the bottom of the drive. (egg deliveries wednesdays and sometimes saturdays, rubbish and recycling alternate week by week. tuesday and fridays take milk over to the garage). 

thursday may 2nd - bring the hopefully emptied rubbish bin back up the drive, celebrate the 1808 rioting of the population of madrid against the napoleonic invaders. (fail to vote in london mayoral election - sorry sadiq).

friday may 3rd - continue celebration of the 1808 rioting of the population of madrid against the napoleonic invaders. bandcamp friday, publish a golden glow and a kafka quote from 1915. 

saturday may 4th - mum goes to the garage (pick up the saturday daily torygraph which includes the TV guide). 

sunday may 5th - publish a golden glow and a kafka quote from 1915.  perhaps some more discussion of the mokrani revolt.

tuesday may 6th - publish a golden glow.

wednesday may 8th - 1871 claude debussy's father (manuel debussy) is arrested and flung in jail as a communard. 

thursday may 9th - deathday LTC rolt (whom horsemouth has been reading recently and plans to read more of)

and so on...

round about the 22nd may horsemouth will return to the wen. 

there are a number of gigs (mini pops, triple negative) he wants to see and he has promised to cat-sit a house on the borderlands. 

at some point in june there will be the meeting of the communal endeavour members in the houses with the guys who have been designing the retrofit of the insulation to the properties. further ahead he has noted some free classical gigs at the QEH at the start of july, some free organ recitals at dore abbey every saturday in august, and the hereford river carnival nearly the last saturday in august (24th). first saturday in september hymn of praise by mendelsohn at the abbey (£5). 

yesterday border checks on the vast majority of foods coming from the EU started (a full 8 years after brexit because they've been putting it off). horsemouth expects it to be proper shit with camembert doubling in price and halving in availability etc. 'we might not always have cheese like we used to...' 

this morning another olafur elaison installation - the sun strobe lighting the mist in the valley (but soon the sun is risen and hidden behind clouds and now it is just misty). now it is due to stay grey all day and then rain in the evening.