each returning day (like old photographs)

as we roll towards may eve

so horsemouth is back from seeing alula down at carnival records in great malvern.  songs about summer, songs from the pilgrimage ways. a chat after (about musical kit and about bellringing)

but now his journey there.

by shanks's pony to pontrilas (across the common) - this took less time than horsemouth thought it would and he had more time than he thought he had (because the but doesn't go until 7.39am). thence by bus to hereford and (after a quick visit to the supermarket in search of provisions) by railway from hereford to great malvern, then a wander up the hill (horsemouth went the right way this time) to check the venue was where he remembered it being. 

then horsemouth pushed on further up the hill, 

past malvern books 

and past malvinha 

and up towards the hills, 

passing st. anne's well (drinking not recommended on account of bacterial contamination) and the hexagonal bar. 

on his way back down he met lots of younger fitter people clamouring for the heights. 

and back again with a stop off in hereford to try and buy books

accessions diary 

- les paradis artificiels baudleaire (50p amnesty malvern). discussion of the assassins, hashish, opium etc. so far horsemouth has only glanced at claude pichoise' introduction because it's in french a language horsemouth only reads imperfectly. but it is in a rather funky livre de poche 1965 edition. sadly horsemouth's copy in english is not here with him so he may have to proceed on with his bad french. 

- the stories of ronald blythe ronald blythe (£1 chazza hereford). thus he discovered every returning day: the pleasure of diaries (edited by ronald). 'these things are riveting... like old photographs.'

and then back to the bus station, bus to pontrilas, a walk, and then home.

then zoom beers with howard

so howard played horsemouth three tracks he has been working on (since wednesday when they last spoke). all three are good. john fromporto's omnichord gets an outing (at last), a drunken horsemouth reciting the lyrics to nuclear war by sun ra gets played (and reversed raw raelcun).  

howard has been reading about tony wilson. apparently one of his tutors at oxford was raymond culture is ordinary williams.