between weirdshire and the wen

 another 'written entirely in the morning' blogpost.

horsemouth is struggling with his ears. or rather one ear which is now blocked with wax. he is dumping the drops in it (when he remembers). this hasn't helped with his ostensible reason for being in the seaside towns (which is to rehearse for musicians of bremen's gig on the 24th). yesterday more rehearsing with howard (followed by a pint and a half in the pizza pub).

broadbury down is coming together. the idea of go your way is good. on amarach horsemouth just needs to put the work into relearning all the guitar bits. horsemouth is pessimistic at the minute but he thinks it will all come off well in the end. 

he's off back over there in a bit and he's taking the resonator guitar (the better to take a crack at amarach). 

bookpilled is back at his folks (after some more travel). he reviews his the five best books I've read this year. by pure chance joanna russ's the female man is in there which horsemouth just found in a book-box yesterday. he also found edith piaf: my life (in a rather natty peter owen modern classics golden edition) and a penguin raymond chandler the big sleep. 

as he may have mentioned previously (he can't remember and is not disposed to look) he has a plan to get various of his books back to hereford in a wheeled carry-on bag (from the days when carry-on bags were big) in the wooden wine boxes etc. that he normally stores them in. he has already packed the first one and (furthermore) he has already identified the next (post 24th) load. he also has some folding bookcases that could be gaffer tapped to the trolley to make the journey back another time. of course at some point he has to hire removals persons (because the idea that he is getting even half of this back gaffer tapped to a trolley is a fantasy).

his current plan is to half and half his time in weirdshire and the wen. it has been what he is up to for the past year or so. 

yesterday he called in to see colin at the office of the communal endeavour - things progress - well they will progress after the summer holiday.