another walk around is proposed but the details are not yet arranged

yesterday

horsemouth decided to walk even though it was raining. 

he had time to kill until the meet.

he crossed the park but emerged near the memorial to dead love and then down the row of exhibitions. soon he was trapped in nest of backstreets with doorways in walls leading to other streets on lower levels. not his part of town. he used the tourist navigation maps. YOU ARE HERE.  

eventually he reached the river and proceeded back along to his original destination. 

when he got there there was a queue was it was a bit vast and slow moving (and in the rain). he doubled back to the prophet of morpeth and had a pint and dried off a bit (did he mention it was raining). a baby shower was going on. a northern irish girl was discussing potential life partners... and the well-heeled (and tourists) of this end of town were eating and drinking and having coffees etc.

horsemouth returned. the queue was shorter... and he was in.

first an espresso in the canteen. then a general wander round until horsemouth found himself slumped and watching a film about the early (revolutionary) days of the algerian film industry being projected from a small camper van. 

a text from a friend. horsemouth claimed to be lost in an art gallery. eventually he managed to orient himself (having tried the gift shop in the vague belief that it would be near the exit). 

back to the prophet of morpeth. seats and a pint each. talk talk. horsemouth hands over the copy of virginia woolf's orlando. another pint and a packet of crisps (and by this point they were drying out nicely). thence to food (they were definitely too poor to eat there) and falafel wrap in a basement. 

from here on in you know the pattern horsemouth and his friend dithered over whether to have another pint all the way up through the zone to the transport hub. there they decided against it and would have gone their separate ways immediately but for the vagaries of the transport system. 

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last night a dream

they were all together but when horsemouth next looked the object of his affection and the object of her affection were already quite a way a way. they stopped and waved. 

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today as it will be

another walk around is proposed but the details are not yet arranged.