'you gotta move...' (let's draw a line under it shall we)

'he has just seen his mum off on the bus to the village. she has the mobile phone in he event of difficulties.' 

well that went well. 

horsemouth's tale

mum takes the bus into ewyas harold, shops etc. comes time to come back the bus does not appear. (meanwhile horsemouth, who is waiting at the end of the drive, is getting increasingly flustered that the bus is not appearing).

cue panic and lots of miscommunications on the mobile phone. horsemouth tells his mum there's not another bus until 3pm.  bus eventually appears mum gets home. 

what was supposed to be a confidence building exercise turns into a disaster.

the bus driver's tale

bus driver gets to pontrilas. the connecting bus does not appear. he waits (assuming it's running late or something) and he waits  and then he realises he is late and drives back up to ewyas harold. 

horsemouth's rationalisation

the village is too far for his mum to walk home from. but then there are later buses (at 3pm at 5pm). horsemouth's mum has friends in the village, there's a library, there are pubs that do food. 

thursday is the good day for travelling (because there are plenty of buses). sunday, saturday afternoon, tuesday, wednesday are essentially fucked with either no buses (sundays) or erratic services. 

the timetabled buses can be 10-15 minutes late because they are at the mercy of the connecting bus service (which is at the mercy of road and weather conditions on the drive between newport and hereford).

---------------------------------------------------------- let's draw a line under it shall we

anyway it is now the next day. 

horsemouth has been out attempting to learn bell ringing and went for a pint after (but then they were back early). his brother and his brother's wife come to visit late this evening. 

horsemouth has discovered an interesting change in the wave 3 of what was the social housing decarbonisation fund, 

'small social housing landlords (those who own or manage fewer than 1,000 homes) can access funding with fewer than 100 homes. for such landlords, there is no minimum number of homes. we expect such landlords to try to reach 100 homes, or to actively consider joining a consortium given the benefits this can bring, where this is not possible.' 

horsemouth will have to get in touch with his contact and ask if there is any mileage in this. 

elsewhere a discussion of the problems of matching a wind and solar electricity supply to the demand from electric vehicles and homes using heat pumps rather than gas boilers. (they are optimistic, horsemouth is not)