'it’s not like this war has started with the world in a settled place...'

- lord jim o'neill, the ex-chief economist of goldman sachs asset management (and former government adviser).

9th march kilvert goes fishing. 

on the 8th he was instructing the young when he was informed that on palm sunday  'jesus christ went up to heaven on an ass.' 

a month on and mandelson has his passport back (because he's not a flight risk). the whole epstein scandal (the oligarchy caught in the act being sleazy and corrupt) moves to the back of people's consciousness because there's a war going on. 

horsemouth listened to the LRB james butler, peter geoghegan and ethan shone discussion on it to remind himself what was going on (when it was going on). 

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it's another misty morning in the wilds. the chickens are out foraging (which is a good sign). horsemouth is quite tempted to go into town (just for something to do). he could do with picking up more seeds for the garden (for when the weather gets better).