horsemouth has decided he needs to go in and register with a doctor

no kilvert today (from 1871). he is happy having seen daisy thomas the day before.

horsemouth himself is a bit grumpy and a bit anxious. 

it ties to the loss of his bolt-hole in london. (even if he couldn't go there it was nice to know it was there). when times were difficult horsemouth could plan to go there etc. 

similarly there were activities relating to decarbonisation etc. that he could still undertake from the wilds but now that he is no longer a member of the communal endeavour he can no longer engage in.  these he has to part company with (in theory they are over the first hump and moving closer to the delivery phase which was always going to be his least favourite part).

it also ties to his poor showing the last time he was out bell-ringing. seeing as this is his only 'going-forward' project out here it bears too much weight in his psychic economy. 

it would be good to get on with the music (again) 

but he's not feeling it at the moment. 

horsemouth was contemplating alternatives to flight (the decarbonisation of travel). he looked at rail travel (this gives you a measure of how much better it has got to become or what the decarbonised world will actually look like). 

'walk' advised howard.

'that may take some time' replied horsemouth. 'are you back yet?' horsemouth asked.

'still walking' replied howard.

'you may have to swim at some point or get a boat (and I'm told that the boats are very expensive).'  replied horsemouth.

hopefully howard will be back soon.  

ok horsemouth is back from the bell-ringing. he did well so his confidence is returning and it has cheered him up. he didn't go for a beer after so he's sat here with a bottle. 

it's the morning (a grey morning) horsemouth has decided he needs to go in and register with a doctor.