yesterday's rain (a change in the weather)

horsemouth's mum is not very well (this is a bit of a worry).

normally she is legendarily indomitable (today less so). 

a robin came to the window and looked in (or maybe it was looking for spiders round the window frame). 

yesterday rain

horsemouth would tell you if this were the case. (it did rain but not for long and not very heavily but then it rained heavily for a decently long time).

he'd put various buckets and water receptacles out to try and catch as much of it as possible.

it would take is several days/ weeks of actual proper rain to get the soil back to where it was (muddy but fertile).  

horsemouth will now return to a topic that is pleasurable to him energy bills, wholesale gas prices and insulation. andy burnham has let people off the VAT on their energy bills but then wholesale gas prices have risen so that will wipe out any savings people would have made. this will be the model for many of the changes he will attempt to make while in office.  small scale change swamped by wider economic forces. 

ok no bells for horsemouth last night - it's at the not-so-walkable church and his usual lift there was not going (which he should have anticipated really). 

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ok horsemouth has done the chickens and he has done the milk. he's wearing trousers and a shirt on top of his t-shirt. the windows are closed. feels like a change in the weather. 

still it looks like it will be a beautiful day. 

meanwhile thrift-a-life (aka. bookpilled) has re-activated his clothing re-sale line. horsemouth very much enjoys watching this. it's just great watching him do what he does and how he thinks about it.

(not that horsemouth cares about clothes). 

horsemouth has , however, chopped out his mustache and beard. it makes him look uglier but younger.