timing (horsemouth is still sick)

horsemouth has spent the morning in bed and is beginning to feel less feverish and fluey. 

however  now he does have a cough. 

he has been out to water the garden (4 microscopic pea plants, 6 runner bean plants and 2 potato plants that he recognises) - the rest of it he is just watering in the hope that whatever he planted there (and he has largely forgot) is coming up. 

ok he's just remembered there is a row of potatoes and broad beans he's put in (he'll go and water those).  these were planted on an 'if they come then they come' basis. 

looks like the black cat has caught and killed a baby rabbit. 

later on today (the sunday and round about 6pm) his brother arrives - horsemouth will head off to the wen on monday (he thinks). 

for his video for the day he did have  fred kitchen's a brother to the ox - from a novel about farm labour by an actual farm labourer but instead he's swapped it for one of roger barnes's doing up a house in a fishing town in brittany. 

horsemouth really enjoys these videos - the materials? wood (of various sorts), screws, fittings from IKEA. he shows us the thing that will replace tiling (horsemouth is sad about that - he enjoys tiling) big sheets of waterproof material that you just silicone mastic round (and job done). 

roger's  simple delight at the arrival of hot water out of a tap. 

and then roger goes for a beer and a sandwich on the harbourfront.