to turn the page (embers)

'I hate material description. the tedium of having to do it stops me writing novels.' - stendhal, memoirs of an egotist. stendhal wrote many novels, some while he was living in paris just before the time when he wrote these sentences on his return to italy.

november. back to the -embers. dia de los muertos (well maybe tomorrow).

the day before

horsemouth types this the day before. he feels the desire to turn the page on the calendars (but he knows he must wait). 

maybe just a quick peek. (ah well it's a pleasure for tomorrow). 

here a rainy day. horsemouth will try a snooze for a bit (and then go down and close up the abbey). 

this is what he did

so this is the back plate from an early copy of wind in the willows (on sale for 7 shillings and 6 pence). horsemouth (or more properly horsemouthfolk - a mononym, or is it a sobriquet?) just liked the colour of it (and the plant patterns). 

yesterday death of peter watkins director of the wargame (effectively banned for 20 years) and la commune (a filmed re-enactment of the 1871 paris commune). 

horsemouth's mum was asking about the weather - rainy overnight, intermittent rain all day saturday but decent enough-ish sunday. 

so horsemouth had the idea in his head that lankum didn't write cold old fire but it turns out they did (sort of);

'I remember when cian lawless, who is our manager now, he was writing that song. at one stage lynched was me, cian and daragh. we had a lot of different formations. cian came up with the nucleus of that song. we wrote another verse and tidied it up for the album..' - ian lynch of lynched (later renamed lankum).