horsemouth likes recycling

'the dead themselves declare their dreadful secrets, open mouthed to the winds' 

- j. sheridan le fanu, wylder's hand.

why does horsemouth like recycling?

because it is essentially a tidying activity that ends with a tick. the rubbish (no, sorry, the recycling) has been sorted into the correct bin it can now be put out at a regular time. it is noticeable he doesn't feel quite so virtuous when he puts out the rubbish. 

once (at a party) he joked that it worked well with his ADHD only to be immediately hailed by a woman at the party as a fellow neuro-divergent and warmly embraced. nonetheless there is a kind of truth in this - horsemouth gets the same warm feeling as when he successfully 'solves' a sudoku - when all the numbers are in their right place and the structured whole emerges (or rather vanishes).

ok he's just put out the recycling

horsemouth (as a child raised on stig of the dump and the wombles) likes the idea of eliminating waste and saving what is valuable. 

horsemouth is killing time before he delivers the eggs to the crossroads. he has phoned up the plumber so hopefully that task is on its way to completion (and he can stop feeling anxious about it). 

'horsemouth could do with getting into town and undertaking some retail therapy (books glorious books)' 

but it looks like he will be stuck in waiting for the plumber instead. nope the guy has been and gone already. this means horsemouth could make it to town. 

horsemouth has dug up the last of the potatoes (he believes) and grubbed out the last of the marrow plants. the nasturtiums and the spinach remain (but the first frosts will soon put paid to those). there are some broad beans in to provide 'earlies' next year (hopefully). 

the potatoes are currently in the garage on sacks drying - he'll go take a look at them now to see how they are doing. 

he watched a little bit of some dude in scotland doing the back to the land thing (keeping chickens, raised beds, dried vegetables etc.). horsemouth likes these kind of good life porn shows. he's much more practical than horsemouth is (but then horsemouth isn't fully free to make his own mistakes). 

the growing year is coming to an end and horsemouth hasn't made the best use of it again (ho hum). 

in the morning (after he has blogged probably) horsemouth will go down the drive and bring back up the empty recycling bin. it's there waiting for him. horsemouth saw the bin lorry arrive like a UFO.

friday his mum goes to the rescheduled quiz.