'it's like in the godfather'

kilvert has a boil upon his thigh that he has been suffering with since 13th april 1871 today they finally get the doctor out to him. (he will still be suffering with it on the 27th). 

may day kilvert is in hereford high town for the jack in the green (he is travelling on to chippenham and his father's rectory at langley burrell). 

this mayday there are lots of elections. horsemouth expects a big reform protest vote (even though it is currently experiencing staffing difficulties). he expects big loses for the tories (failing to cut through with the electorate or indeed even get back up on their feet). he expects losses for labour on a low turnout of about 1/3rd of the electorate in the places actually being contested (again about 1/3rd of the electorate) - 23 councils and six mayors in england, and sennedd and local elections in wales - may 7th and may 6th).

a lot happens in the godfather 

horsemouth is therefore uncertain what was meant if someone were to say 'it's like in the godfather'.

well bad news something has got one of the chickens - it looks like it was attacked and then crawled into one of the nesting boxes to die. cats? rats? crows? another chicken? 

horsemouth found it's body. it is now buried up by the water trough. horsemouth will go and check that the rock he placed over it is enough to deter carrion creatures.

the white cat (with orange bits) just visited. horsemouth went out to run it off. (though to be fair it did seem more interested in the rats/ mice under the shed). he likes the cats visiting (though he thinks their chances of killing an actual rat are minimal).  

horsemouth has added a photo of himself up the pub with pizza eating chips (a photo taken by howard after one of their rehearsals for their august 24th gig last year). 

horsemouth was just having a think about bookshelves for his room. his dad once made a series of bookshelves (some of which still survive intact). the largest of them he cut up into sections when they moved to herefordshire and used it to store his tools, paint etc. in the garage - horsemouth is thinking about giving some of them a clean and  bringing them back into use as bookshelves.     

as has been observed he has rather a lot of books and rather a lot of records. furniture not so much (or at least not so much that he can be bothered to bring it with him.