the far future village band III is here!

it's here

the far future village band III is here 

(well at least in digital form). 

horsemouth has been listening to it and pronounces himself most pleased. as you know it features some of horsemouth's singing (and a small amount of his playing the harmonium). the rest of the music is provided by rob lawson (as usual it is great). 

it also features horsemouth narrating the first four chapters of his far future village band novel. he hopes to continue this in the next installment. everything seems to fit nicely together to horsemouth and soon there will be a booklet to go with it containing the four short stories/ character sketches. 

yesterday horsemouth went out and did some watering. 

it looks like one of the shrubs in the coppice (so called, not actually a coppice) has died with the heat. let us see if it will come back. 

the trees are doing fine. and the bushes. anything rooted in the soil with a decent root system (except for the shrub above). at least another two weeks of the heatwave to go (possibly more). 

horsemouth has hoisted a flag and his brother has seen it 

horsemouth was slightly spoiled by his trip to london. his mum claims there is another visit in september (of the long weekend variety) this would be really useful to horsemouth but it's not immediately, it's a way off. 

and sadly it comes just before another time when horsemouth could do with being up in the wen to welcome another visitor. 

there was a more immediate one (that his mum now claims is off) but it didn't work for horsemouth because it didn't include the weekend. 

ultimately horsemouth has to solve the problem of making short visits to the city when he needs to rather than that of making longer visits to the city when it suits his wider family. 

smoke is drifting up the valley

smoke is drifting up the valley. horsemouth went to see where it is coming from (from the military base he thought, but actually it seemed to follow the motorway). possibly from the wild fires in ebbw vale. 

a leaflet has arrived from the commons committee (rather than the water lot) - they will be cutting down more bracken and clearing more dead wood from the common in an effort to reduce the amount of combustible material lying around up there.