horsemouth in his bargaining with time and place

on this day in 1786 in the morning goethe is arriving in ferrara having been in venice.

1871 and kilvert is off with his father to st. davids. by nightfall they will have reached the castle inn in  haverford west (which still seems to be there). 

even pessoa is off for a walk 

'yes, it's sunset. I walk leisurely and distracted, down rua de alfandega towards the tagus...' - fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, on this day 1931

horsemouth was trying to work out how to predict how many friday 13ths would be in a particular year based on the appearance of a friday 13th in a particular month.  each month adds a certain number of days. when you have reached 7 (voila!) there is another friday 13th. 

such is horsemouth's bargaining with time and place.

yesterday he wandered into ewyas harold to get two loaves of bread, a dozen eggs (the chickens not laying), and two bottles of beer (just in case). he's trying to persuade his mum to take it easy ahead of the visit of his uncle terry on friday. 

tonight the bell-ringing (hopefully). 

tomorrow 25 years of levitation.