horsemouth ('the hero of a certain kind of novel' )

walk 

horsemouth wandered into the village to try to go and get some plumbing parts (but the shop that sells them was closed on account of  flooding). the village shop was open (the owner was getting interviewed for radio outside) so horsemouth got two loaves of bread. his mum is in any event going in later on and horsemouth is going back in later on again (he is undecided whether he will walk back over the common using a torch or get the bus). 

lots of people were out pressure washing the mud off their drives after the flooding. 

there's a bus back at 17.10 (sunset is about 1615). 

probably walk (again)

ok no horsemouth has cancelled it. he's an indecisive beast. 

sunny the next few days but also cold and probably sleet when not sunny. (thereafter back to rain and slightly warmer).  

horsemouth could do with getting into town and undertaking some retail therapy (books glorious books, preferably second hand books, preferably cheap second hand books, underappreciated at least).  the best days for this are thursday or friday (or possibly saturday morning) otherwise the buses are a bit chaotic. 

thursday is bell-ringing night. hmm he's just realised his lift over may want to cancel again. 

maybe he can face walking over to the pontrilas bus. 

'the hero of a certain kind of novel'  is a decision making beast as are the heroes of certain philosophers but iris murdoch thinks we should look at the fabric of our being  - the things we actually do. 

horsemouth watched john gray being interviewed on why he wasn't a post-liberal (again). 

today cloudy, blowy and cold.