the attack upon the house by the brother (mythago wood)

'happy belated' said the girl in clapton ticket office (she asked him if he had done anything nice for it, horsemouth replied that he had played a gig). 

later girls wandered through paddington with angels wings. 

horsemouth, as an oldie and by virtue of a route involving evesham, can now travel back and forth to his mum's for about half cost of what it used to cost him to go via the newport route. this is good news. horsemouth misses the travel announcements in welsh (maybe they will be reinstated on the train worcester foregate street to hereford). 

the train was incredibly crowded on the journey up to oxford (where it emptied out in a giant flood of tourism). at some point horsemouth was joined by a posh beavis and butthead who brayed away behind his head (you can imagine his joy). 

in addition to kingham, morton in the marsh, honeybourne,  evesham, pershore  etc. horsemouth also travelled back through the somewhat generically named worcestershire parkway (soon to be the site of a new town).  at worcester shrub hill he got his chance to examine the victorian waiting rooms.

everything was going swimmingly for horsemouth until he hit hereford - and realised that not only were there no buses on a sunday on his route, there were also no buses on a bank holiday either (and the day was a bank holiday). it took him a while to satisfy himself that that was indeed the case and then he headed off in search of a taxi. 

the taxi brought him to home at greater expense than the journey to london and back by train. the fellow was a cheerful fellow and had lived in solihull  before hereford. horsemouth should probably have haggled him down or stomped off to a different taxi rank but at least now he knows. 

until that point horsemouth was ahead on the day financially - now he's behind and will have to struggle hard to catch back up. 

horsemouth has put up the book-box he brought back. as you can see he has basically gone up another level on where he was before. the box contains a number of books on music of a folky nature; edward lee's music of the people, derek bailey's improvisation, le roi jones (amiri baraka)'s blues people, ronald blythe's akenfield, maud karpeles' an introduction to english folk song. walker's a history of music in england, dearnley's english church music 1650-1750, ralph vaughn-williams and bert lloyd's the penguin book of english folk songs, woods' folk revival, james reeves' the idiom of the people, christina hole's a dictionary of british folk customs, kosser's how to become a successful nashville songwriter, douglas kennedy's england's dances,  step change: new views of traditional dance edited by georgina boyes, 

ghd cole and raymond postgate's the common people, john anthony scott's the ballad of america. phew that's it. 

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'work had been under way to remove non-compliant cladding on the flats, the BBC reported, adding the fire brigade had said the building had a “number of fire safety issues” known to officials. the cause of the fire is not yet known...'

a fire out in dagenham overnight. it is, of course, only a matter of time before there is a rerun of grenfell with a similar death toll because most of that cladding is still out there. there was another flat fire in blackwall as well, but here's the thing, it didn't spread up the entire building. 

in robert holdstock's   mythago wood  august 27th is the date of the attack upon the house by the brother. horsemouth finds that his brother has pressure washed the brickwork round the house and out-dutifulled him.