london was very beautiful in the sunshine

ok horsemouth was on the train for paddington (having got his brother to drive him in to hereford). he had a womble round the very pretty center of worcester (ok down to the river and back up). then he was up  at worcester shrub hill railway station (near the very pretty victorian waiting rooms - but he doesn't have time to get off and make a visit). 

horsemouth returns to the wen intent on doing his political duty (and then packing it in). 

his brother has agreed in principle to pick him up from hereford  on the sunday (when there are no buses but there are trains). the guy in the railway station was chuntering on about ticket validity and weekends and such like (horsemouth had forgotten to utter the magic phrases 'via evesham' and 'super-saver' (having forgotten what it was like to travel by train). after much oblique haggling horsemouth was offered a ticket at a price and on a route he recognised and accepted with alacrity. 

the swedish guy ahead of him in the queue was getting a similar level of service. he was going down to london for the day - an option that had the clerk absolutely baffled. 

on the train they passed through oxford - that would make more sense to horsemouth as a place for a daytrip. 

the elec and gas website was pissing him off. 

ok he's got it done. 

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london was very beautiful in the sunshine. as he walked back across the park his headache cleared. he met up with the housemates. he walked to the shops through kids playing and reggae music. he did the (online) communal endeavour meeting. he had a glass of beer with sten. 

he's made two arrangements to meet - one is with TG this morning  at their usual park bench rendezvous. there's the communal endeavour annual general meeting wednesday evening (after which horsemouth thinks he will have earned another beer). 

looks like it's a no with minty (shocker of a cough and cold). 

whilst he was on the commuter train to his suburb ('the weaver line') the women opposite discussed something going off in spain - it turns out spain (and portugal) had a huge electricity outage. of course as more things become electrically powered (trains for example) this makes the result of outages worse.