weather permitting

tomorrow much better weather for herzog on his walk from munich to paris 

but today, the same old same old

'... uncertain about the route today, probably straight toward troyes, possibly via wassy. the cloud situation has hardly changed since yesterday, the very same thing: rain, gloom. noon in dommartin-le-franc; I ate a little. the countryside is boring, hilly, bare, plowed wet fields. in the furrows cold water has gathered, at a distance all dissolves in cloudy drizzle. it’s really not rain, just sheer drizzle.' 

- werner herzog, on walking in ice, 9th december 1974. 

'everything he did was a saving, a using again, a refusal to discard, to give up, to waste... we ourselves were often the recipients of grandpa's craft. when he wrote to us we recognised those second hand envelopes. he wrote on coloured paper, bits stuck together. his letters were happy and amusing and unique. they were about doing 'jobs', making new things from old things, making things work as fresh objects. they were essentially about life.'

-david grubb on his grandfather in beneath the visiting moon (1983). 

it is the 30th anniversary of the death of philosopher gillian rose - horsemouth has her love's work round here somewhere (which he recommends highly).  round about the time of the crisis group one of the youngsters recommended it to horsemouth and a week or so later he found it in the gower street oxfam (well ok the one opposite bookmarx). 

she died in 1995. we are probably talking 2008-2010 here when horsemouth read the book. 

yesterday horsemouth he has wandered into the village to pick up some (unnecessary) provisions. a neighbour's air-source heat pump is

today 

weather permitting his mum is off to keep the ancestor's graves clean the other side of hereford (stoke prior).  at the moment it is dark and rainy (but it is not pelting it down). we should see in the morning. horsemouth and his mum expect the aunt and uncle to cancel.