Sunday, 13 July 2025

a fair example of the kind of things he is interested in and writes about

'as I sat at breakfast I heard the drone of the bagpipes... I find them intolerable. a droning, wailing whine, no tune. I had rather go into battle to the sound of a barrel organ.' - kilvert, journal, 13th july 

tomorrow (in 1871) the reverend kilvert will be going to hereford to see the dentist (and his laughing gas apparatus). he will use the railway line that used to run between hereford and hay and on to neath and brecon (imagine how useful that would be now). 

there he will hear three children playing la marseillaise (this he will enjoy despite its revolutionary reputation). 

horsemouth is up earlyish. he has fed the chickens (who seem to be off their food) and opened up the green house (he should probably cover it over with a sheet to cool it down still more). 

horsemouth has received an invitation to a share-and-share-alike cultural productions page. he will probably accept in the hope  that someone somewhere may find his stuff interesting. 

he used to play guitar (he still plays guitar) and has recorded. he has voice-overed and acted in a self-produced film. he has written slabs of theory. 

these days he mostly 'writes' a daily blog (about not very much). he has done this for a number of years. once in a while he will 'publish' something on substack. a few times a year he will go to a gig or receive some of a friend's music and then he will tell you about it. 

a few times a year he will release some of his own music (or suchlike). 

he's mainly interested in diaries these days. diaries and writing. the above is a fair example of the kind of things he is interested in and writes about.

he writes in the third person using a persona horsemouthfolk in honour of the famous reggae drummer (and actor) leroy 'horsemouth' wallace. 


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