'my greatest skill has been to want but little...'

a friend has something new coming out

one track available now 

(the rest available 

august 1st 2025)

no kilvert until the 18th but we do have 

some thoreau from today in 1851 (in his walking by night phase).

'meethinks my present experience is nothing; my past experience is all in all. I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.' 

and yet thoreau recognises that he has led a fortunate life; 

'I perceive that I am dealt with by superior powers. this is a pleasure, a joy,  an existence which I have not procured myself. I speak as a witness on the stand, and tell what I have perceived.'

and yet he must come to some decision about what he must do for a living;

'I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.' 

'my greatest skill has been to want but little...' 

the west midlands is in drought after a dry spring and a hot summer. 

of course we still have half of july, august and september still to go (and then we are back into the seasons of rain er. hopefully). the last email horsemouth saw from the common's water people said that the central tank was refilling nicely (but, of course, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance). 

but yesterday (of course) it rained. horsemouth was feeling a little cooped up (like it was winter again). and it was st. swithin's day (so there's that old superstition about there now being 40 days of rain). 

the water butts outside have filled up by about a 1/3rd, horsemouth thinks they'll get another bout of rain in before the evening. then we are not reliably back into hot and dry until next week. 

(so flooding soon he thinks) 

yesterday  

it rained. 

horsemouth was feeling a little cooped up (like it was winter again). 

yesterday 

horsemouth attended a meeting on behalf of the communal endeavour (on that there decarbonisation lark). he did some reading on eligibility for ECO4 and copied it into a facebook post to help him remember it but he left a link attached to it and facebook told him it was spam. 

most of the properties are EPC Ds - so only eligible for innovation measures (where the communal endeavour argues it is doing something new and exemplary), only one house is an EPC E and so eligible for more conventional measures (and then there are the eligibility criteria of the members in the houses to be met - total household income less than £31k, long-term illnesses etc.). 

once again he doesn't think ECO4 is a runner (but this time for a different set of reasons). 

he's not sure why he's doing this stuff, because he won't be there to see any of this. 

it's a cooler morning.