who would have thought that could happen

 on the 22nd june 2013 it all began.

'the horsemouth folk archive is a place for horsemouth to archive all his drivel following the great wreck that was the 2013 myspace blog dieback. he will begin with what he has  and add more as he finds it...

horsemouth would like to make it clear that he is NOT the famous reggae drummer leroy 'horsemouth' wallace but rather an unsuccessful folk guitarist eking out a meager existence on the edges of the seaside towns. playing occasionally, blogging regularly, rehearsing infrequently...

if you like what he does please let him know - if not please leave him be.' 

but of course it all predates this because horsemouth had already been blogging  on myspace since _________ (towards the end of 2006 he thinks).  this means that in 2026 there will be a 20ieth anniversary of horsemouth's commencing blogging. 

of course what he does under the name of horsemouth has changed over these years. 

in the meantime soon it will be the 20ieth anniversary of horsemouth's first publication in mute. 

if you wait long enough all the anniversaries will roll around. 

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horsemouth was grumpy most of  yesterday but he thinks there's a way through the morning to the thing he wants to do in the afternoon - to go see alula down play in great malvern and then successfully return to the homestead. he thinks it's a runner (failing that he can always high-tail it back to the wen a little early via birmingham new street or worcester). 

the hereford to london euston via birmingham route is cheaper (trainline claims £34!! but national rail thinks £68.30 for two singles) than the via newport route (£96.40) (as was the via worcester route £72.60).  of course there a bewildering array of offers (especially if you include buses) but horsemouth is just into the rock up and go, come back at any time (within a month) fares. 

horsemouth is creeping up (day by day) on the condition of being old (if not an OAP). he does have a pension (of about £64/ month - aka. beer money) and soon enough he will have a buspass (and probably a senior citizens railcard). horsemouth is looking forward to this. though he is genuinely shocked to find himself old (who would have thought that could happen). 

oof it's a beautiful morning in the valley. (horsemouth has his coffee and has done the watering). he is charging the phone so that he has a timepiece. he wants/ needs to be off earlyish but he's trying not to worry about it or run any catastrophising scenarios (he's failing).