just because he wanted to hear it last night

yesterday someone beeped horsemouth from a car and yelled out his name - was it you? 

were you heading down towards ASDA?  

will horsemouth ever find out? (could have been adam? could have been dave?)

horsemouth was off shopping; 2 tins of chopped tomatoes, 2 tins of baked beans, 1kg of brown onions, 200g of soft cheese, 200g of greek-style cheese, 1.1kgs museli, a small jar of pesto. broadly enough to hold him for his visit and leave a stockpile for the next one (damn he forgot the margarine). 

(about 3.6 miles all told)

he has a 5kg bag of red lentils he should probably take back to the wilds. 

bread he usually gets from local shops - turkish skateboard bread usually either with humous (or with cheese slices if he's feeling rich). 

book haul (accessions diary): 17th february

- the worm forgives the plough: john stewart collis - £1 RSPCA. the kind of book that has a robert macfarland intro (yup). ah. one of collis' acquaintances was rolf gardiner (who was a bit dodge as we used to say). horsemouth is now reading the collis (who is an engaging cove). he has (of late) had a problem reading - in that he had little desire to read - but look a new book seems to have ensnared him. intro read and up to p.14 so far. 

- untold stories: alan bennett (garden wall potlatch free) probably a gift for howard (if they can indeed manage to meet up).

horsemouth did a walk around - up to the powerscroft road book-box, then to the RSPCA, then down via the park to the charity shop on the top of mare street (shut), then down to the CRISIS (a j.m. coetzee dusklands  but too expensive) and finally the one on the top of morning lane (seems to be gone).  

today (the tues of days) horsemouth is due a visit from colin and perhaps he will get out to see howard in the late afternoon (say 4.30pmish). 

wednesday (the weds of days) he is free 'to do what he wants to do' etc. 

the thursday (the thurs of days) he probably sees TG in the morning and then claudia and then he is away to diner in the evening. 

friday (the fri of days) horsemouth travels back (starting early). his brother has offered to pick him up from the station (in the wilds). this saves him a dash, a bus, a wait, another bus home (alternatively the last part could be replaced by a muddy clump across the common). 

ok horsemouth is awake and he has his coffee. he posted this last night because he had a sudden desire to hear pagodas (and by the vagaries of stuff that was the only way he could do it - ok ok he could have played one of the CDs). today (like he says) the visit from colin and an attempt to meet up with howard.