the hunter's and the harvest moons

june 11th (1851) wednesday

a long entry (four pages or so) by thoreau. he muses on walking at night, lonesome whippoorwills and full moons.

'only the hunter's and the harvest moons are famous, but I think that each full moon deserves to be and has its own character well marked..' 

tonight the strawberry moon 10.46pm in the south near the horizon. sadly south is not the best direction for horsemouth so he did not see it. 

this a mostly written the day before blogpost

horsemouth has had his lunchtime cup of tea (he has had his sandwich) and listened to the world at one. he stopped very quickly when faced by the full horror of it. 

the world continues to be terrible

10 kids shot in graz (disgruntled ex-pupil),  sizewell c - well the one it is a copy of will arrive late and billions over budget (so there's an experiment we should be repeating), winter fuel u-turn(ish),  job vacancies down (rise in NIC etc.),  reform appoints new chairman, racist riots in ballymena. 

and that's without any mention of gaza, yemen, sudan, LA etc. 

meanwhile

horsemouth was late to a meeting he purposefully got himself invited to (oops) but hopefully he said the right things. 

thursday there's an online webinar on what the spending review will mean for housing that horsemouth plans to attend - hopefully not very much horsemouth hopes. 

similarly there's movement afoot on the getting the meter in the house in the wen replaced (it is getting old and possibly unreliable). horsemouth would like to get this completed before he moves out. the issue remains who will take on responsibility for the bills and getting the money out of people after him. 

horsemouth, of course, will have to give up this interest in housing, unless he can find something similar to distract himself with out here. 

the night before last he watched otley a ladbroke grove set swinging sixties type thriller featuring tom courtenay, and with leonard rossiter as a hitman. horsemouth saw this as a child on daytime tv and was horrified by the murder of one character reversed over by a bus (this seemed bloodthirsty and fundamentally unfair to him).  

a year ago sunak was ambushing his own party with an election. the result was the carnage we see currently. 

a beautiful day outside horsemouth is going to go and do some watering and then see how he feels.