horsemouth is back in the wild ( evidence of rain)

horsemouth is back in the wild

he got home at about half five having left london at about 11 o'clock.

the house itself he had left even earlier. he had a plan to raid the bookmarx bargain table (highly recommended) but they were shut when he got there and weren't opening until 10.30. he returned to outside dillons (as was) and picked up a copy of colette's letters  (earthly paradise in the penguin lives and letters series) for a fiver (not enough of a bargain to have interested him formerly but it will do).   

actually it looks familiar he may have bought it before. 

from 11 til roughly 1.20 he was on the first train. when he got to hereford he had an hour wait - he tried a book raid and then just gave up and read. strangely what he read on the train and in hereford and on the first bus was  bruno's dream by iris murdoch. (old man dying - various ne'er do wells round him). 

his first concern when he got back was to check the garden.

shock horror it is still there. there were plenty of runner beans in need of picking (there are even some broad beans). as horsemouth came into ledbury (or was it colwall) there was a short burst of rain (and similarly once he got home), not enough to do any real good (but nice to see). 

the morning

horsemouth awakes to evidence of rain. (clouds even). distinctly cooler. he can see the rabbits moving in the woods, there's even one in the hen enclosure (cheeky fecker). horsemouth wonders how it is getting in. 

this weather makes the previous weather temporarily  inconceivable. seems it's going to cool down to 20C or so and then heat back up to 28C. 

his brother has effected a temporary repair to the gate and the fence post (but it's wood in soil it has rotted out at the base). 

last night two conversations. 

the first on m. john harrison's chances of winning the booker (or even making the shortlist). who knows SF may have served its time in low culture prison and now be eligible for parole into the world of literary respectability. (there are other distributions that can be made of this material horsemouth knows).  

this led on to a discussion of how bad the title's of his books were and how bad the covers were (horsemouth has to concede both points). 

the second was on the perilous era we find ourselves in. the foolishness of modern wars and civil wars (as evidenced by the battle of the crater). 

horsemouth supposes there was a third conversation - with the bus driver on the way back about guitars. horsemouth will be researching the gretsch electromatic jet.