an absolutely foregone conclusion

kilvert on this day in 1872 

the strange tale of the dog which nearly hung itself while jumping down from a wall during a thunderstorm. 

earlier (yesterday)

there was a dragonfly flying about (they don't buzz as far as horsemouth can tell). earlier still he was feeling anxious but he has self-medicated with coffee and is now feeling better (plus the heat has come off the day, there are actually clouds in the sky). 

he has watered the tomatoes (which are looking great, lots of them and very red). the cabbages have been eaten to lattice work by the caterpillars (same with the sprouts). the basil is good. he is imagining telling his brother about watering all of this. 

he was just wiping down his blue jacket - the one that was still mud-stained from where he fell over in the mud six months ago (possibly longer). 

horsemouth had a go at reading and recording two of the pieces he wrote for rob's far future village band  project. if these are successful who will start working his way through the others (perhaps there's an audio book in it). there's the odd infelicitous phrase but on the whole it reads pretty well. 

we are moving up on the six year anniversary of musicians of bremen volume four. 

this is a slightly melancholy anniversary because it was not followed (a year or two later) by a volume five. close on its heals were a whole series of releases the humming  etc. but they just used up the material generated at the same time but MoB failed to generate a successor. subsequent projects did not stick. 

they may do yet (it's not an absolutely foregone conclusion).

and yet there it is. pagodas is an important piece for horsemouth because he plays it all. it is a number of fragments of debussy's pagodes inexpertly played and stitched together. as you can clearly hear while recording it horsemouth developed a great enthusiasm for a crash/ splash cymbal he'd found. 

ok it's the morning. horsemouth just took the milk over to the garage fridge and finished off a cup of coffee from yesterday. the mornings are cool (cold even).