horsemouth's bargainings (an end to such speculations)

'suppose we put an end to such speculations: total stagnation would ensue. for we act only under the fascination of the impossible...'  

- e.m. cioran finds something nice to say about utopias (at last) in history and utopia.  

only one more friday the 13th this year 2026 (with 3 friday 13ths in it, a most unfortunate year) but only one friday 13th the year after 2027 (so a fortunate year). 

it's 13th today (for example). but not a friday the 13th.

such are horsemouth's bargainings with the calendar. 

horsemouth has fed the chickens and watered the garden (ok fairplay he needs to go and water the old garden). he should go for a wander to avoid slipping into the trough of little activity. it looks like it might rain but the weather forecast claims that it will not. (that's pretty much how yesterday went down also). 

thereafter rain. bloody rain. at least the water butts will refill. 

the morning. a pleasant mild morning. in an almost comedic and complete fashion the weather forecast says rain. oops here it comes. horsemouth will be excused watering. he has moved his cioran reading on from mechanism of utopia to odyssey of rancour. 

meanwhile they have not killed the king (by this horsemouth means starmer). they have not declared because neither streeting nor raynor are in a good place to declare. and then there's the king of the north (and he burn ham) and the insanely difficult task of getting him back into parliament.

which, frankly, may, or may not, be possible. 

and then there is the incoming economic disaster that is the war on iran and its effects on the bond market for government debt and the effects of the 'political instability'.  an emergency without a forseeable end.

can the uselessly sincere starmer survive? 

horsemouth had to laugh. many councils only have elections for a third of their seats at any one time but if the election results are repeated next year as they were this year then labour will lose control of liverpool. 

horsemouth takes the view that labour can lose wales and no-one, outside of wales, will give a shit, but if labour were lose liverpool? that's seriously bad juju.