'the personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.' - anais nin, journals volume two, quoted in the introduction by gunther stuhlmann.
oh dear. horsemouth just had a meltdown and ended up kicking the chicken shed door a few times. seeing as he wasn't wearing boots at the time this was probably a bad idea. it doesn't look like he's broken any toes but he's certainly bruised them. (oh yes I should say so)
one of the local buzzards has had a go at snaffling a chicken - horsemouth thinks the chicken has gotten away ok and that they still have six. he thinks he counted six at one point (but if it turns out the buzzard has got one then them's the breaks). the crows (of course) made a lot of fuss and horsemouth headed over to see what he could do.
he'll go chicken counting again in a bit. phew they still have six chickens.
really the only way to have this not happen again would be to completely cover in the enclosure and not let the chickens out for exercise beyond that. this is currently horsemouth's preferred solution.
he has some eggs to deliver (at some point).
has he calmed down yet?
well he's getting there. as usual, when he thinks stuff needs to be done, horsemouth just wants to do, and he can get frustrated when he's not allowed to do that.
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he's had a look at the more up to date ECO4 guidance and it is all looking much more possible - he thought he'd been steered into a distraction but in fact it looks like a runner. (no one is more surprised than horsemouth).
ECO or the energy company obligation is how the various energy suppliers work off their fines from the regulator. horsemouth thought that this would have to involve a direct deal between the tenants in the house and their particular energy supplier but it seems like the communal endeavour itself can do a deal with an energy supplier but it still needs the details of at least one eligible person living in the property (eligible either because of ill-health or poverty).
so there may be a way forward that way.
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it's the morning. it has rained during the night and is overcast and misty first thing. where the sun shines water evaporate from the shed roof. it having rained excuses him watering, he likes watering as a task but he knows he should be attempting to conserve water. they have put up a fence around the commons water tank - he's not sure how that will help but hey ho.
the marrows are huge and there are too many of them (live and learn horsemouth). he thinks he will do ok with the potatoes. the spinach and the runner beans have done well. the carrots, onions and peas he didn't plant enough of. the broad beans have been a bit of a disaster.
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