a second post for the day (a carpet of flowers )

yesterday horsemouth was up early he expected  a meeting at about 11.30. (one of those on-line things that he can no longer see the link for).

phew horsemouth has done the meeting - the sound cut out on him and he had to relocate to another computer. (at one point there were two of him) horsemouth is obviously being cursed for something he did in a previous life.

it's all a bit of a rollercoaster to be honest.  

as horsemouth remarked the nasturtiums have started to grow (that is good news) but horsemouth is running low on peanuts for the birds. he's had a discussion with his mum about putting in more paths in the garden (so she can get around it more safely).  

later in the afternoon they had a sort out of the mail and tried to get on top of their various tasks. 

on his way over to see the chickens he surprised the black cat which scooted off down the banking looking as if it had been caught up to no good. 

horsemouth posted a radio show from september 2023 on heatwaves in the south of europe. this is some of horsemouth's favourite global warming art. it even features the kalima - the hot dusty wind out of the sahara desert. one embattled british farmer living in spain (in the alpujarras) even quotes louis-philippe, comte de ségur: 

‘without regret for the past, 

without anxiety for the future, 

we walked gaily across a carpet of flowers 

which concealed the abyss beneath …'

this he may have lifted from a contemporary article in the LRB.

horsemouth only really writes this to enjoy the pleasures of diarising even though he has written something for the day already (hence the title: a second post for the day).  now he thinks he can get away with using it as the diary entry for tomorrow (but then he is using up his healing effect of diarising early).  

hey horsemouth just heard (well saw) jontavarious ____ do a version of poor black matty  that was a lot like homegas's version of bumblebee. above  martin carthy on the prehistory of the downfall of paris as french revolutionary anthem ca ira (horsemouth didn't know the duke of wellington was born in dublin)