this evening there will be a meeting (those simple lines by caeiro)

'I re-read passively those simple lines by caeiro, the natural conclusion he draws from the smallness of the village he lives in...'  - fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 103 (142), 26th march 1930. 

of course here fernando pessoa slips us another mickey. alberto caeiro is another one of his heteronyms (like bernardo soares).  caeiro for the countryside, bernardo soares for the city (lisbon).

it's a neat trick - to have one of your imaginary poets review the other. 

sunday a zoom call with howard and some recommendations from him - horsemouth wanted to make sure he'd sorted out the sound problem.

so here we have maria reis on a variety of instruments (but mainly for horsemouth it's the sound of the portuguese language) live from an artist's residency in algarve town of castro marim.  howard also recommended some beatles song (but horsemouth was less keen on that).

horsemouth also found a john surman film soundtrack for apartment #5c which is pretty cool.

news briefing is gone. that's a shame it was one of the anchors of the mule's days. 

the communal endeavour

this evening there will be a meeting of the communal endeavour. things roll on keenly and there may even be progress (such as it is). at some stage horsemouth has to announce his resignation and begin moving towards a departure. 

but not just yet. 

the figures are looking good for the year (so far). arrears are where they usually are (post covid), voids are a bit high (it's a moment of transition). the endeavour is small but about 60% of the endeavour is owned outright (ok this assumes various government grants don't have to be repaid), 10% is on a mortgage, about  30% is leased. the reserves are good. the surplus is good. 

wednesday there's a meeting of the the thing, you know the thing that can not be mentioned (or maybe it can now). anyway it looks like that's all on and working.