pre-breakfast stirrings

a rare written-entirely-in-the-morning blogpost. 

horsemouth is back from his brother's daughter's 21st birthday celebration meal in ross-on-wye. 

there they were up in the restaurant looking back towards the black mountains and the wilds of herefordshire. it was great to meet sally's side of the family again (such a great bunch). horsemouth chatted amiably and ate well - double desert (katie didn't fancy her sticky toffee pudding). 

afterwards they paid a visit to TESCOs and his brother cooked. he had a brief chat with his brother's son joe about science fiction. what was horsemouth's favourite science fiction novel? hmmn. horsemouth eventually answered christopher priest's a dream of wessex - but is that in fact true? to be honest horsemouth doesn't really read SF anymore. joe has been reading a lot of horror fiction (stephen king etc.)

he walked across the common over to ewyas harold with his brother and wife (in search of a bottle of white wine). they just made it to the shop in time. 

elsewhere outlaw bookseller has been buying (and being given) some new books, the alice coltrane season at the hammer museum in LA is coming to an end. 

horsemouth can hear the pre-breakfast stirrings.

it is eight years since a significant meeting in horsemouth's life (though come to think of it he had met them before).