hid within the first the secret commentary on the other

'though I walked amongst them as a stranger, no-one noticed.' 

- fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 132 (198) 7th april 1933.

ok so horsemouth has sent his brother's eldest all the bus-timetable information that there is to enable him to make an escape from the wilds of herefordshire on a tuesday or wednesday. now all that remains to be see is if he will bite.  

if he bites your boy horsemouth will be able to make an escape to the wen - perhaps on the saturday 19th, perhaps the sunday, perhaps the monday and probably back to the wilds the wednesday or the thursday.

really similar kinds of days the week after would be better for him (but hey). 

horsemouth types this (he was about to say writes this) on a sunday - it's another beautiful day outside - in a bit he will go out and listen to the 1pm news (or as much of it as he can bear).  

he was just watching a film from leeds beckett university about deep home retrofits and the accuracy of EPCs (energy performance certificates). the daily torygraph (it seems to horsemouth) has mis-represented their research. they point out that many houses actually perform better than the EPC would claim, thus the savings having done the improvements would be less, and thus the payback time would be longer. 

this the torygraph reports as if the measures don't work and thus payback times will be greater. 

eden (aidan of montreal) soundtracks jonas mekas's he stands in the desert... it's nice.

'the second riddle is hid within the first;

that the one riddle is the secret commentary on the other;

and that the earliest is the hieroglyphic of the last'

- thomas de quincey, the theban sphinx. 

horsemouth was reading this in the sun (even though the air was cold). 

he followed a link to a book copsford by walter j.c. murray.  first published in 1948, it is the story of murray's year long stay in a derelict cottage. the cottage is pictured on the front cover but has since been demolished. there's an essay on him by tom wareham over on a wordpress site devoted to richard jefferies. 

well it's a beautiful morning but it looks like there's been a frost. the chickens are happy bunnies (if that makes sense). 

saturday alula down are playing in malvern for record store day - horsemouth may try and see if he can get over.