an entirely written in the morning blogpost (except for this line)

the commons water society

so last night horsemouth went to a meeting of the commons water society (and very good it was too).

things progress on keenly. the water supply is getting out from under its section 18 order but it will cost money to do this (which has to be raised). fortunately the sums to do it are not huge (at least in this incarnation) and the members are (mostly) reasonably well heeled. horsemouth thinks it should be possible to prevent a tragedy of the commons. 

the members of the committee are very smart and competent bringing plenty of skills to the table. 

horsemouth can't help but compare this situation with the communal endeavour. he should send them an email to see how it is going. 

at the end horsemouth got a lift back (having taken a torch and prepared himself for a walk back across the common). 

so this is an entirely written in the morning blogpost (except for this line).

horsemouth is up and has been out to feed the chickens in the dark. his body is waking him up at 6.30 for some reason and by then it is still dark (and will be increasingly so). 

horsemouth and his mum an nibbling at the heating and will soon have to move on to lighting the fire in the evening. in a way this would be horsemouth's preferred option for heating the house - it saves on expensive fuel oil, they have a shed full of wood and it looks good. the fly in the ointment is the time when his mum is cooking (and then when they are both doing the washing up) before his mum sits down to watch tv or read is quite long. this means the time for his mum to sit near the fire is comparatively short. 

in which it will all sort itself out

horsemouth is waiting for the arrival of the far future village band III radioactive reptile bootleg CD to come. he's got his eyes out for the postie. 

soon there will be the far future village band IV CD and download. this last he imagines it will come with a booklet and he can get some copies of it made and get into distributing them round. 

rob has proposed taking a crack at le bateau ivre (horsemouth thinks this is a bit ambitious).