we are far from the blue nights around the summer solstice. we are in the far north and only just moving away from the winter solstice. soon we will have 8 hours of daylight (lucky us).
on tuesday horsemouth added one piece to substack (on the fall of the house of fitzgerald) and one piece to goodreads (on a hovel in the hills). both of course deal with housing in same way, with horsemouth's reasons for being in the wen. the tension between town and countryside.
he looked at such retrofit reports as are available. there's the odd typo (but nothing too fatal). there's the odd infelicitous phrase or thinly written copy.
really what he wants to is to have all the reports so he can judge the scale of the whole thing - not just the phases one and two to take the houses to a (low) EPC C (50% of it paid for with government money if luck is with them) but the phases three and four taking it all the way to full decarbonisation. the cost of this is not spread across the two or three years of the government programme but across the next ten or twenty years dependent upon the communal endeavour's ability to turn a surplus to pay for it.
in truth horsemouth's 'mission' (should he decide to accept it) is just to see the EPC C scheme up and running (beyond that the future's not ours to see).
today horsemouth takes the waste bins down the drive. delivers some eggs to the crossroads, and he attempts to work out why the phone seems to be off but the broadband is still working (phew).
ok he's plugged the phone cable into the phone socket on the back of the router and now it seems to work (wtf?).
horsemouth likes bea nettles' mountain dream tarot - you can see why, there's that mix of photography and enactment. she was inspired by waite's the pictorial key to the tarot. the book horsemouth originally wanted to find was meditations on the tarot.
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