thirteenth night (mild zombie apocalypse)

2026 a year with three friday the 13ths

friday the 13th of february 

and because february is, in a common year, 28 days (or 4 weeks exactly) the days of the week and the dates match for the first 28 days of march so - 

friday the 13th of march

and finally a friday the 13th of november. 

7th january 1872 kilvert is told of a railway accident between swindon and wootton bassett. the train  guards got the blame for failing to run back half a mile and alert the following train. 

'there are early and encouraging signs of a mild zombie apocalypse...' 

- ruth curtice, chief executive of the resolution foundation

here the zombie test is simple - it walks around like it is alive (but it is in fact dead). 

companies that only survive because their interest rates on their debt are low usually fall into the zombie category but  it should also include companies where they only survive because the minimum wages they are paying their staff are artificially low (and should they be forced to pay their staff decently they are soon in financial difficulty). 

the resolution foundation views this in a beneficent creative destruction kind of light - a stronger, leaner british industry (or finance sector or whatever) will emerge from the wreck. those rendered unemployed will be re-employed more profitably in the new firms that arise after. and, of course, just as importantly, lots of debt will be written off, whoever was left holding it last will be burned, and, concomitantly, lots of assets will be left undervalued and can be bought up by a song by those with ready capital. 

and thus does zombie capitalism lurch on, transferring that created  by people's labour into the hands of the rich (how beautiful it is). 

horsemouth is up. he's just been out to feed the chickens. now he's got his coffee. he's changed to using the stove top pot rather than the cafetiere. it has substantially thawed  out but it is due to rain tonight (storm giotto or something). 

today the bins (horsemouth will check in a minute if it is the waste or the recycling).