that good shit (the heron's image)

'the willow sees 

the heron's image 

upside down!' 

- from a haiku by matsuo bashō which appeared in chris  marker’s film sans soleil (1983). 

so far so good but so far horsemouth can't actually find this haiku in bashō's work. 

not that that has stopped horsemouth from using it before.

that good shit

a friend claims to be off (cursing out smart phones, facebook and chat gpt as he goes), horsemouth does hope he means just off temporarily. he was surprised to see him on it (tbh). he always thought he was much too cool for  it. (unlike horsemouth who is just a shallow confirmation monkey). that said it has been a great joy of good quality shit - photographs, poetry, music - putting all the smart people horsemouth knows to shame. 

(he also cursed out giorgio agamben's stanzas but horsemouth knows nothing about that). 

now if his friend is genuinely going off-line then horsemouth will (probably) escape charges of plagiarism for this. (and if not his friend will probably keep posting that good shit). 

horsemouth is relieved to see that someone else has joined him in the necessary work of appreciation. 

so much trouble in the world

it will take horsemouth a while to think this through (by which time we will be on to the next bit of craziness). the return of big power politics (as if they ever really went away). the end of rules based orders (or at least their pious invocation). europe cut adrift and staggering to its feet. the partition of ukraine (by russia and the US). 

witness  jD vance at a recent european security conference indulging in a little light bullying and asking the important question 'does donald  j. trump look like a bitch to you?' 'no. of course not. zut alors.' 'then why did you try to fuck him?'

in some ways it is like the collapse of the soviet union. something that was literally unthinkable until it happened (but had also been the end point of the west's strategy the entire time). europe has talked about american isolationism and exceptionalism (but now it is here). 

horsemouth has been overthinking the retrofit in anticipation of the mancom on wednesday.

overthinking the retrofit

most of the houses of the communal endeavour will achieve an EPC C during phase 3 of the retrofit (when either interior or exterior wall insulation is applied) and go one in phase 4 to achieve solid EPC performances (low As and high Bs). 

but of the houses of the communal endeavour there are three anomalies - one property appears to achieve a EPC C at phase 2 (pretty much when the loft insulation goes in), another one will not achieve an EPC C until phase 4 of the retrofit (when we are into the solar panels and air-source heat pumps) and even then the outcome EPC (C 74) is not great.

finally there is a flat that will achieve an EPC C at phase 3 but only achieve and EPC C of 76 at the end of phase 4.  but horsemouth thinks the figures have just been copied into the table wrong so it's not as bad as all that.