all along the wern ddu ('the solitude of writing')

 '... in the silence the hay church bell for evensong boomed suddenly out across the valley' 

snow on the slopes of the black mountain lit up by the setting sun. kilvert on this day in 1872. (his nature description is getting better - but soon he will move away).

'the solitude of writing is the solitude without which writing could not be produced...'

- marguerite duras, writing. 

yesterday. so horsemouth went into ewyas harold with his mum. having dropped his mum off horsemouth walked up the hill towards walterstone (along wern ddu) and very nice it was too. he paused near the brow of the hill and then walked back down again to meet his mum and they got the bus home. 

a successful mission (thinks horsemouth). (far less hanging around than horsemouth thought he would have to do). 

today. a grey day. shading into rain and cold later.

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war news

so has trump been negotiating with iran or did he just make it up to keep oil prices down? 

the later. 

does he escalate the war again when the troopships arrive in 6 days time? 

or does he declare victory (and sail away)?

if he stops does israel stop? if israel stops bombing iran but carries on bombing lebanon is that the war over? 

and in further energy crisis news is it all over for decarbonisation? 

probably not. horsemouth hadn't seen the whole thing as a strategy.