tumble in the wind (hergest ridge)

'I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events.' 

- fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 25 (12), undated. 

good morning! today an entirely written in the morning blogpost (first one in a while).

horsemouth was in the country he goes to when he is on holiday in his dreams (it was hot and sunny). there was something about storage and visiting a gentlemen's club. 

the evening before horsemouth spent some time trying to learn tumble in the wind by jackson c. frank, it is late style jackson c. he is back living in the states, you can hear his wheezy breathing, the lyrics are even madder than his early style lyrics. 

'britain performed worse than most other developed nations in its response to the covid pandemic...

the UK spent more money than most other countries on economic help yet still ended up with larger drops in life expectancy, more people too sick to work, huge levels of homelessness and soaring mental health problems among young people...'

it is the fifth anniversary of the UK going into covid lockdown.  

horsemouth thinks this was entirely necessary because the government hadn't taken the necessary steps earlier (in fact he would have welcomed locking down earlier). the virus thrives on contact between people you want to minimise that until you have a vaccine, and the earlier you minimise it the less people catch it, the less people get sick, the less people die,  and, crucially, the better the chance of your health service and health workers surviving so that people can get treated for the coronovirus and for other ailments (which don't go away just because the coronovirus is out there).

and yet the fact is that about 50% of the working population still had to go to work all the way through it. they still had to take those risks. this is not recognised because the chattering classes were more concerned with the expansion of work from home (which turned out to be a more partial phenomenon than many of us hoped). 

horsemouth found a bbc hereford and worcester show about mike oldfield's old house where he recorded hergest ridge (and the pilgrims to it). it seems to be being said HARjest ridge. 

there was also a programme about finding a photo of a woman from presteign. 

a word of warning here - horsemouth has used some kind of generative AI thing to fill in the edges of the photo to get it up to the required width to be used as a header on facebook - this does the falsification of history begin. 

urghh. horsemouth was just trying to download some shit to confirm his suspicion about a particular form or other - and the computer was absolutely making him beg for it. he got there in the end (sort of).  horsemouth is a bit more relaxed about it all. soon the expert comes - they will either have time to sort it out or they won't. hopefully they will have the time to sort it out. 

what is horsemouth talking about? the plunger on the toilet (see how paranoid they have him).