stepping heavenward

'finished reading stepping heavenward it is a lovely book' - kilvert, diaries, this day in 1871

horsemouth has his doctors appointment (it's for the 18th of november).

he decided to accept it (even though it will either be better by then or he will have found another source of treatment by then) because who knows what other ailment he will be suffering with by then.

he realises what he is doing is appointment hoarding and that this is not the most constructive response to the situation (but fuck it). 

horsemouth doesn't go to the doctor's much - this follows a similar situation ten years ago. horsemouth was coughing his lungs out. he phoned up for a doctor's appointment - two weeks time. 

so horsemouth continued coughing. 

it is not that horsemouth thinks he is terminally ill. he just wants to be reassured that he is not terminally ill. 

he probably is chronically ill (but they aren't going to pick that up). 

perhaps the solution does lie in dentistry after all (as the receptionist suggested). 

it is the 45th anniversary of horsemouth seeing the ginger baker era hawkwind on the levitation tour. as horsemouth has remarked before he saw this at the polytechnic of south wales with all his old friends from caerphilly (he had already moved with his parents up to herefordshire in the august). the main thing he remembers is that they missed the train to cardiff and had score a lift in a passing friend's car. 

there must have been quite a few of them going because horsemouth was wedged in in the passenger seat well. (it was important that the car not look like it was jam full of young people because that might have attracted the police's attention). 

he's guessing adrian, arun,  robin morris but he can't remember who else there was (spooner maybe). 

he has no recollections other than this. (he has no recollection of how they got back for example but it was probably by train or bus).  ok he has a vague recollection of the drum solo in brainstorm. 

the next year he went to see the sonic attack tour in bristol with those friends (26th october 1981) and wishbone ash's number the brave tour (19th may 1981).

it is the morning. as pretty a sunrise as you could wish for. sun shining on little fluffy clouds in a blue sky. 

he's reading an article on harvesting potatoes (because that's his plan). 

possibly today zoom beer's with howard.