''the afternoon grew dark and threatened rain...'

'the afternoon grew dark and threatened rain. the dingle was gloomy and one yellow tree above the burnt house burnt like flame. 

tom williams came over to dine with us and talked to my father about old oriel days.' 

after a long walk yesterday (a friday the 13th) kilvert has a quiet day. (this day in 1871). 

there was only one friday the 13th in 2025 (in june), but there will be 3 in 2026 (february, march and november).  of course if there's a friday the 13th in february (28 day perfect four week month) there will be a friday the 13th in march (unless it is a leap year - if it's a leap year there won't be for sure). 

at two hours after sunset on the 14th october 1786 goethe will be leaving venice for ferrara and later rome.  horsemouth will attempt to follow him. 

yesterday horsemouth listened to the WKCR (new york) special broadcast celebrating pharoah sanders on what would have been his 85th birthday. he went for a walk on the common and photographed some more mushrooms (these photos he will post later). 

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ok it's the morning. horsemouth would like to solve the problem of why the hens have stopped laying (again). he suspects that they are just laying somewhere other than the nesting boxes in the hen shed but until he finds that location it's a problem. or it may just be that the dark and the cold are discouraging them. 

soon BST ends. samhain. we will be halfway to the winter solstice.