'that liar and thief of the world sarah thomas... is gone'

horsemouth is off to TESCOs so this will be necessarily brief. he has a written yesterday blogpost to go so he will be OK. 

'that liar and thief of the world sarah thomas... is gone'

so writes kilvert (somewhat uncharitably) in his diary on this day in 1870. it is the start of a period of daily diary entries. he's back in clyro (the most interesting parts of his diary). 

there's more information on the recently deceased maria kilvert that if anything makes the whole episode even more gothic.  

horsemouth has another copy of kilvert's diaries back in london (it looks like this) he will be having a look through it to see if there is any more in it, or anything different in it, to that  collected by plomer in the three volume edition at his parents (the one he is currently reading).  

eventually kilvert will leave and for much of the rest of his life  be back in chippenham (and it will be less interesting). in volume two of plomer's selection kilvert leaves clyro. he leaves on the 2nd september 1872  (returning only for three weeks in march 1873). 

tomorrow another christmas golden glow with horsemouth as selector. it is the first ever selection by horsemouth from 18th december 2015 (soon it will be 10 years of this nonsense). horsemouth is giving it a listen right now. right now a great sproatley smith track (blackthorn winter). right now a roomful of german nursery school students in cardboard robot costumes sing kraftwerk.