horsemouth and his notebook of particulars

horsemouth is awake and he has his coffee. matter of fact now he's on to round two of the coffee. 

he has published a photo of himself out drinking in forest hill (following the great trek to the horniman museum from st. pauls). it has garnered some 'likes' as they say.

this is the well deserved first pint (thereafter they rapidly become distinctly less virtuous). 

the photo is on film and was taken by howard. 

last night some spots of rain. horsemouth has been out to check the water butts to see if there was appreciable harvesting (but he thinks not). 

an email from the commons water people - levels in the tanks are still low (the lowest they've seen). horsemouth should pay more attention to reducing usage. 

when his dad was complaining about water shortages (way back) horsemouth suggested getting a cistern of some sort. when it rains a lot of water comes off the common - it is a shame it can't be kept until it is needed. 

yesterday the eggs to the crossroads and the TESCO food delivery taken in and put away. the usual stuff with the garden, the greenhouses and the chickens. right now (yesterday afternoon as will be) it looks like it might rain. 

here we see horsemouth again (again photographed by howard) 

this time on their walk from walthamstow wood street to st. pauls. here they pause at the powerscroft road book box for horsemouth to assess how it is doing without him. (not that well it would seem). 

in bruno's dream by iris murdoch one of the characters keeps a very detailled notebook of particulars trying to cut out the distressing influences of 'real life' by focusing on aestheticised  minutiae, 

meanwhile murdoch makes a disturbing and chaotic novel out of the 'real life' going on around him. now this book horsemouth bought (he didn't find it in a book-box). 

horsemouth wants to get more books (because he misses the thrill of the chase not because he wants to read more books). he's not sure if he will get away to do it today though.