so that would make our target date 20th may 2022
'horsemouth's basic plan is to abandon work and engage in a retirement where he does some writing (and some making of music)...' he wrote on the 21st of may 2022.
retirement
'his 'retirement' is ok so far (he's a bit bored)'
by this point horsemouth had abandoned work and was starting in on his retirement. three years, five months... horsemouth was coming to the end of his redundancy and pension taken in advance money and beginning to dig into his (limited) savings.
he was still living in london in the basement room in a shared house.
now he lives out in the wilds keeping an eye on his mum as she gets older.
music
volume four and the various other EPs and similar projects had been released by then but the band had been running at about one gig a year ever since covid and pressures of work (for howard) were going to mean that it would become increasingly difficult to record and finish material.
horsemouth now has his guitars, the harmonium, and various other (smaller) instruments with him in the wilds. perhaps he will enter a new period of musical productivity.
today a strange one. a phonecall from andy from the band horsemouth was in way back when.
writing
well horsemouth does the blog every day (and substack or good reads as and when) but he doesn't have a bigger project on the go at the moment. he barely keeps a diary any more. he is almost never physically writing (it's all typed - and into one of these).
ok it's a grey morning and the bin lorry has just been (hail the bin-men!).
bin day! remembering it. remembering whether it's the recycling or the waste this time. walking the bin down the drive to the pick up point. getting up all excited in the morning to discover that the bin has been magically emptied. (the visitation of a strange craft with flashing lights for those up early enough). bringing it back up the hill to the house. arguing over what properly goes in each bin. hail the bin-men!
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