reporting, editing, and authorship (practical hints for beginners in literature)

10 years ago today horsemouth started out on this mixcloud thing with howard (for he is the guest DJ)

here he is impersonating one of the olympic mascots (remember them). 

karen dalton, robbie basho (roses and snow), king ayisoba (wicked leaders)...

ok a written entirely in the morning blogpost (remember those).

this has happened because he was busy yesterday. 

horsemouth has just been out to feed the chickens. 

it's a grey morning (rain later). horsemouth is slightly headachey (hopefully that will clear). he didn't take the bin down the drive or deliver the eggs yesterday. the eggs he will deliver later. the recycling bin will have to wait two weeks (there's probably some switch up over christmas). 

kilvert is off from clyro to langley for the christmas holidays (and to get some dental work done).  

the andrew rossabi biography of richard jefferies goes well (despite being too large to be portable) and it is only volume one, his childhood, effectively.  jefferies and kilvert lived in roughly the same time. as we follow kilvert from 1871 into 1872  jefferies is just beginning to take his first steps in writing (and is keen to share his limited experience with people, his reporting, editing, and authorship: practical hints for beginners in literature will be published in 1873. 

amazon reports this handbook (33 pages) was published by snow and co. of swindon on the 1st of january 1873. horsemouth has been unable to find the text of it or even a picture of it. there are some quotations and a discussion of it in walter besant's eulogy.

the black cat is visiting. it is gingerly making its way along the fenceposts of the bottom garden.