'I propose to make the future, the present and the past happen at once'

'I propose to make the future, the present and  the past happen at once' - kenneth patchen   

friday 16th june 1871

kilvert and his father stay at the hand hotel in llangollen. which is still open. they have travelled from chester. 

before that they were in bangor crossing over to angelsey when kilvert stopped to talk to an old man.

'now you are like robinson crusoe, you are on your island. how should you like to live in that house all year round, winter and summer?' 

he pointed to a white house on a little rock in the middle of the straits.  kilvert said it looked ok. 

'they live like fighting cocks there... they have got a weir there and they catch all the fish.' 

in llangollen kilvert hears a welsh harper play (several times). 

'I would have come all the way to llangollen on purpose to hear the welsh harp.' 

his father prefers to go fishing. 

yesterday (and the day before)

yesterday (as it will be)

horsemouth goes for a walk around the common. he hears the bells ringing in ewyas harold from where he is up on the hill. horsemouth listened to a radio 4 documentary about cornelius cardew and the great learning (more on that later). he reads more anais nin. he waters the garden. 

the day before

horsemouth actually spends a fair amount of time on shanks's pony (walking). he walks into the village and back (hereford times and a few items of shopping). he walks up the hill to martin and sylvia's (and back down again). he has another wander round the common (recreational purposes). 

the stano track above features michael o'shea. 

for the future

horsemouth expects to be back in london next week. he's having shufty round trying to work out who to see when etc. best to start booking him up now - he's not around long. 

ideally horsemouth would start getting his stuff shifted back to the wilds and in more than the piecemeal quantities he has attempted so far. 

here in the wilds a beautiful morning (another day destined to heat up).