just before darkness fell and the skies opened (equinox)

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well horsemouth is out in the wilds. it's rainy and grey. he has let the chickens out ('good morning ladies'). 

yesterday the journey from hell. delays on the queen elizabeth line so horsemouth got off and made his way to paddington via the circle line. at paddington a successful ticket purchase by machine. but he'd missed the early train and had to go for the one an hour later (he killed time in his habitual park). the train boarded early and then chugged slowly through every two milk churn town to worcester shrub hill. there a wait for the rail replacement bus and then a two hour journey clanking round every railway station on the route to hereford. arrive into hereford 20 minutes after the bus to pontrilas has left. go check out the oxfam. 

accessions diary- yesterday morning, diana athill, oxfam hereford (three squid). if begins (as is usual) with her thoughts on death and growing old but then we are off back into her reminiscences of  childhood. 

then to the pub garden  (hogarths) to nurse a pint and kill more time. then (slightly early back to the bus stop). there a young guy was playing a tanglewood acoustic which he'd just bought, horsemouth had a chat and a go (nice guitar), then the bus ride out to pontrilas, the guy and woman in the seat in front had been out celebrating the wife/ girlfriend's  birthday and asked the youngster if he could play something. so he tried a bit of wonderwall the regular drunks at the back tried to join in (but perhaps couldn't). 

so (following on from myk's psychokiller on the 254) here we have horsemouth's bus and music story.

and so back to pontrilas and a walk (no buses up to abbeydore on a saturday afternoon). horsemouth was worried about making it back to his mum's house before darkness fell (largely because there is no streetlighting in the countryside). so he made as fast walking progress as he could making it home for 7.30 (just before darkness fell and the skies opened). 

today the equinox 12.44pm GMT. we head off down into autumn. horsemouth hopes it is mild so he can carry on harvesting vegetables for a while longer.