'two or three french or italian boys were singing the marseillaise...'

'in the street two or three french or italian boys were singing the marseillaise to a beautiful harp and violin accompaniment...'

today (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 then on to neath and brecon (imagine how useful that would be). there he will hear two or three children playing la marseillaise (this he will enjoy despite its revolutionary reputation of which he would not normally approve). 

la marseillaise got its popular title when volunteers (fédérés) from marseille sang it while making their entrance into the city of paris on 30th july 1792. 

today a lot cooler 22C or so (at least according to bbc weather). cloudy in the morning possibility of some rain in the early hours of tuesday morning. 

tomorrow (tuesday) actual rain all day. 

horsemouth watched a reaction video to argus  by wishbone ash. the guy gurns away, he hears the bass, he hears the guitar, the drums. he's an ex-guitarist he can hear the guitar tones. he hears yes and jethro tull and he hears intimations of iron maiden.

he has also been watching loads of le homme sans visage a georges franju/ jacques champreux fantomas style shocker which he has managed to find entire on a certain streaming platform. 

horsemouth has remembered he has his own mixcloud page and has added all the golden glow mixes he sourced tracks for. it provides you with a kind of indication of the sort of stuff he listens to (when he's not listening to one of  howard's ambient mixes which he did yesterday).

above you see a photo of horsemouth's room back in the wen (yuck messy isn't it).  messy and uncomfortable but beautifully arranged to maximise storage.  at the moment it looks like horsemouth's return to the wen for the 23rd to the 27th is on - he will probably  travel back the day of the 22nd so he can pack and get his brother's eldest to take another load of (mostly) books up to the wilds. 

horsemouth is much less fond of the room since he agreed to the bushes in the front garden being chopped down. 

horsemouth is not moving his furniture so he will have to find ways of either passing it on or dismantling it and hiding it in the junk room of the house. 

ok horsemouth is enjoying the cooler day so far.