english heritage: humpty fucking dumpty

check this out! an entirely written in the morning blogpost. 

yesterday a day of crossed wires. 

today (hopefully) everything will work out.

horsemouth missed the message that would have enabled him to go and be useful (the thing he likes to do). instead, in the absence of bookings, he decided to head off to the TATE and take in some art (and then have a wander around). 

he was particularly taken by english heritage: humpty fucking dumpty by bill woodrow (1987). a school's vaulting horse is displaced from stability by various insertions and a gas cylinder is balances precariously ontop. he hid in the small gallery near the cafe and found out about the artists international association and peter lazlo peri. 

he then wandered up through the sunshine and whitehall to trafalgar square and the national gallery (but his heart wasn't really in it), then off to look at his old place of work, then off to the bookmarx bargain table and a few other local ones.  

he's up james white's dark inferno and paul jennings' the living village. (one squid each bookmarx). 

on his way back (again in the sunshine) he called in on the old homestead. ian was in (sten, daryll and nesta were not) and horsemouth and he chatted. ian was clearing out under the front steps and considerable strides have been made towards making the house habitable and the back garden usable again. that said the house currently has a mouse problem (which horsemouth is glad to miss). 

by way of comparison over in douarnenez with roger barnes' refurb project lots of rain and slow progress. 

from the old house horsemouth repoed his jumbo guild acoustic guitar (the one with the lifted action that he played slide on for funeral song). it was good that he showed up then. the rest of it is about to be entombed behind even more stuff. 

horsemouth wandered home (well to his brother's) and then went to bed early tired after all the walking. he did some thinking about why it is less satisfying for him to visit it as a tourist than to nip in between bookings when he was a worker.  

today looks like being another good day weatherwise. horsemouth will be on his way in a bit.