horsemouth and the gwangju uprising

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an entirely written in the morning blogpost

horsemouth has unleashed the chickens and poked his nose into the greenhouse. he has had his first cup of coffee and will shortly be departing for downstairs after a second. 

at some point he will go and get the bin from the bottom of the drive. 

ah yes. he's just remembered he's got to go and open up the abbey. 

back with the coffee. 

horsemouth has been reading han kang's human acts a novel focused on the gwangju uprising in korea on may 18th 1980. curiously he seems to have been reading it on the correct dates with the army retaking the city on the 27th of may. 

thousands died. 

later one of the survivors is working in a translator's office - they are translating an english book on crowd psychology (or rather crowd morality), a chapter on the 1968 student uprisings is left out in order to facilitate the books passage past the censors. horsemouth has no idea who this writer could be (if in fact they are not fictitious). 

and here horsemouth is cultivating his garden. 

the first set of runner beans have started reaching the top of their poles. horsemouth has added two more sets. the potatoes are in. horsemouth planted out some spinach yesterday (at least he thinks it is spinach he won't really know until it comes up). the problem now is finding the space to put in the carrots etc. 

he has spotted an errant pea plant and stuck some twigs round it (to give it something to climb up). a few of the pea plants have flowers on them. there seems to be a random lettuce

really horsemouth could do with getting some tomato plants. one of the pepper plants in the conservatory has fruit on it (the others do not).  at the moment the greenhouse is used more like a potting shed.

at the other end of the garden he has put some nets over the strawberries (thank you julie). 

ok it's off to the abbey.