2020(5) comes in ('onwards and upwards fuck the odds')

'onwards and upwards

fuck the odds' - judee sill

horsemouth has been listening to the max ochs album (whose birthday it was yesterday (in 1940)). it is  is brilliant. 

and what will happen in 2020(5)? 

in 2025 the decarbonisation of the communal endeavour will begin to happen. the target is a low EPC C for all the co-op owned houses (EPC C asap!). the assumption is that the ex-local authority flats in blocks owned by the communal endeavour are either an EPC C already (given the boiler upgrades they have received) or are near an EPC C and so will be relatively straightforward to get up to an EPC C standard by 2030 (the government's deadline). 

horsemouth is contemplating giving up his room in a shared house in the wen. of course should he do this it will be difficult (if not impossible) to move back (hence his hesitation). 

it's all about a balance of greed and opportunity - greed, he could save £8k a year if he doesn't have it, opportunity, if he did keep it when will he get the opportunity to visit it. 

horsemouth should get on with some more recording and he should put out another CD - either of his historical offcuts or of new material. he should endeavour to play more gigs (the one a year of the post pandemic period is not sufficient). he should endeavour to learn more tunes. 

he will endeavour to get some shelves built/ brought home so that he can store more of his stuff at his mum's. 

he will endeavour to get up to hereford and hay and the wen more to get in more books. 

so a 53 week year for accountancy purposes (we have established this). 

friday 13ths in 2025? september and december. 

saturday 1st february and march. 

horsemouth expects politics to continue to be fucked (and to be essentially ununfuckable). 

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so here it is. the last few hours of 2024. and pfft! the year is gone. (at least he didn't get hideously drunk over christmas this time).

following on from 2023 horsemouth has mostly been hiding out in the wilds. there have (paradoxically) been more things holding him here than in the earlier phase (broadly since his birthday). horsemouth has returned to the wen for various flying visits totalling probably a month he guesses (but it's more like two).  

(january 28th to february 6th, 1st march to 22nd march, 23rd to 26th april, 18th may to the start of june,  26th june  til the 9th july  24th to the 27th of august,  19th october to 25th october, he was due to get away on the 18th of november for a week but sickness intervened). 

he heard the fireworks (and then rolled over and went back to sleep).