january (rain in the day, sleet in the evening, year of the snake comes in)

bookpilled is back! (and rocking the gorpcore). today's books? the drought and crash. 

interesting. looks like 2024 will be the 53 week year and 2025 the 52 week year (so we are still in the accounting year 2024). 

this means that 2024 (a difficult year for the communal endeavour) gets an extra week's boost while 2025, looking like a good year, won't miss the extra week much. 

horsemouth has the new RSPCA calendar up but he doesn't like the look of it much. (it's all bloody horses, horses...). hopefully there will be an abbey calendar soon. 

he has marked out his and his mum's turn on the abbey rota (which comes round soon). 

in the diary 

friday (today when you read this) horsemouth hopes he can avoid a visit to ewyas harold (his mum is down for one next thursday and the thursday after by which time the weather looks cold but decent). instead he faces a womble up to the forge on saturday (when the weather looks disgusting - rain in the day, sleet in the evening). 

in the diaries 

kafka is out for the count until april-  at least according to brod, meanwhile the siege of paris begins in earnest and edmond de goncourt will have something to say about it.  kilvert will mention it in passing (for they are alive at the same time) and earlier on thoreau will continue to have his opinions. 

horsemouth will republish his 6th march 2016 golden glow on the 6th january (er. and then again probably on the 6th march).  

on the 12th january it is the anniversary of the death of alice coltrane. on the 16th january the anniversary of the broadcast of alan plater's land of green ginger (1973). 

monday 20th january the communal endeavour meets (virtually).  trump will be inaugurated. hopefully there will be progress on the EPC C thing by then. it will be the lunar new year and from the 29th the chinese new year also. it will be the year of the snake and the year of the dragon will be over.  

at some point horsemouth will want to get in a visit to the wen (having missed his chance in november). he was surprised by how much he was actually up in the wen (knocking on two months worth) when he came to add it up. 

it is the evening of the day before. in a bit horsemouth will go out and lock up the chickens. 

it is the morning. horsemouth has won through against the paucity of actual material by listing things out. he's back from the bell-ringing. he has been out to unleash the chickens and feed them. there's a frost on the ground and standing water has frozen. remind him to fill up the bird-feeder.