Monday, 4 August 2025

the sheep moon (13 full moons in 2026)

the year's remaining full moons 

9th august – 21:13 BST

7th september – 19: 42 BST

7th october – 18:20 BST - harvest moon 

5th november – 15:55 UTC

4th december – 14:48 UTC

the last 3 are super moons - low to the horizon and thus appearing very large. 

13 full moons in 2026

yesterday horsemouth succeeded at herding sheep (with his mother's help, but nonetheless...). 

the great plan to encircle the fallen bow of the damson tree with fencing before the sheep could get at it failed and the sheep got at it and fed on the nearly ripe damsons with great avidity. horsemouth and his mum succeeded in herding them back up away and up the hill into next door's. 

also yesterday a meltdown. curiously not when the drama was going on but just after the drama but before the descent of the hill had been safely negotiated. 

the descent of the hill safely negotiated horsemouth pronounced a fuck it on the whole enterprise and went and got a beer. 

anyway monday the tree gets fenced round and then the sheep can be re-admitted. 

following the august moon horsemouth and is mum are on abbey rota. horsemouth suspects he will be doing the morning shift (9am opening) and then himself and his mum will do the evening shift (6pm closing). this is at least at the start of the week - towards the end it will just be horsemouth on his own (he suspects). 

it looks like being a hot week (24C plus).

horsemouth thinks he saw rico rodriguez once. just on the street. over near shepherd's bush market.

'hey rico!' yelled out the dude near horsemouth.

'rico' waved. 

does that make sense? (it certainly looked like rico from the photos and film horsemouth has seen). 

the album has one of those great sounding honking horn sections as well as that great reggae drums and bass. 

today er. rain horsemouth thinks. rain but not strong winds (those seem to have come out of the forecast). thereafter a cooler, calmer week. 

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