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 'horsemouth is up. it's 8am ish. he's drinking his coffee...' 

outside it is a grey rainy horror of a day. (today and tomorrow rain).

7th february 1872 kilvert walks to hay 

(plommer does not mention what he was up to yesterday).

'the bridges were at home, gave us tea and showed us all their poultry, the white brahmas, the golden-pencilled and silver spangled hambros (horsemouth assumes kilvert means hamburg chickens), and that ferocious white beast the silver pheasant who has at length been tamed by having his long spurs cut...'

(you'll pardon horsemouth. he doesn't know much about chicken breeds or pheasants for that matter).

'the peas were peeping above the ground in bridge's garden but the mice appeared to have eaten many of the young shoots off as soon as they appeared above ground.' 

horsemouth has heard that mice are particularly fond of pea plants. this should remind horsemouth to get on with the growing of things. 

 

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 in the chapter house and home in practicalities by marguerite duras, 

'the house a woman creates is a utopia...

at neauphle I often used to cook in the early afternoon... 

all I had to do was prepare the vegetables, put the soup on, and write.'

this is what is so great about duras - it's that mixture of abstract and particular, of thought and deed. 

'the house a woman creates is a utopia. she can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but the search for it. as if the search were the point of the whole thing...' 

'at neauphle I often used to cook in the early afternoon. that was when no one else was there... it was then I saw most clearly that i loved them...' 

above duras at her house in neauphle (a beautiful old farmhouse and barn). it must be cold in winter thinks horsemouth. 

has horsemouth had his second go at the coffee pot? or is there more coffee downstairs? let us see.