'in nova gorica, the contrasts are immediate'

'in nova gorica, the contrasts are immediate. an airy, green garden city inspired by le corbusier, it was created just 75 years ago as a socialist utopia.'

so horsemouth has seen howard. he has seen ian and sten at the house. he saw his brother last night. he's contacted TG, pete and other hackney bods. there's a plan to see enza. as usual horsemouth is bad at planning ahead. 

yesterday was bright sunshine in the morning but then it clouded over but by this point horsemouth had wasted his morning carting a whole load of books (mostly sociology of education textbooks) from where they had been chucked out near TGs and up to the powerscroft road book box. 

later he went over to aldi (3 miles in total) to stock up on beans and pasta - he doesn't think he will be around long enough to make inroads on potatoes and he still has some rice ready to go. 

he went up to see his brother (his brother fed him). the train up (and the train back) were full of beautiful young SWP types - horsemouth has seen the photos of the crowd (it was big). people horsemouth knows are heartened by the counter demonstrations. there was supposed to be a fascist demonstration at the old fire station leswin road in stoke newington (but horsemouth can't believe that would actually happen and there are photos of the crowd there guarding it). 

today he's seeing howard again (more rehearsals) and will call in to see colin at the office of the communal endeavour. he's short on coffee. he's had a small one from the scrapings of the jar (remind him to get more coffee while he is out). it's another beautiful morning.