archives
This blog began life in August 2004 and was archived in its entirety offline in early December 2009 before being rebooted after a short sabbatical.
What you see listed below are essays, poems and opinion pieces that the author has decided can remain publicly accessible (these will be added to as time goes by).
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2004: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
March 2010
- Poem // Coma
- Poem // Ash on a Buttercup
- Poem // Harpy
- Battery eggs sold as free-range and organic: a wicked deception underlining the wisdom in supporting backyard poultry keepers
- It's not raining cats and dogs, it's raining birds - but why?
- Battery hens voting Tory: the power of the Internet to subvert General Election propaganda
- For once, a UK tabloid doesn't think the public has a right to know
- Return to Sender: Royal Mail to start posting unlimited junk mail through our letterboxes
- Poem // Hen Observations
- Tory candidates get extreme right-wing training
- Gay sex in the Vatican while dictator Mugabe praises the Conservatives
- British Gas apologises for aggressively pursuing non-existent £1,210.10 debt
- When chickens attack, is it instinctive opportunism or something else?
- British Gas seeking to rob us of £1,210.10 for electricity never supplied
- More people planning to vote for Labour to keep the Tories out (because they'll be worse)
- A conscientious food consensus is the only way forward
February 2010
- Microsoft in 'does something good for everyone' move against spam
- The man in the stovepipe hat
- Light Sussex hen swallowed a sticking plaster
- The true story of the cut-out black stick man
- Tory support crumbles as smear campaign against Brown backfires
- Political Murder Most Horrid
- What a baby mammoth made me think about
- Poem // Tortoise and Rocket
- Tories won't involve themselves in cross-party talks on the future of elderly care
- Poem // A Winter Morning Breaks, Observed
- It's a hard life being a banker - so the rest of you, stop being jealous and show some understanding!
- Poem // Valentine Wonder
- Craven's new recycling system is a load of old rubbish
- Supermarkets increased toy and battery prices just before Christmas
- Star Trek, curiosity and the iPhone App Store
- Poem // Cannibal Delia
- Pagan arguments in denial of climate change, and a rebuttal of those arguments
- BBC self-censors for benefit of climate change deniers
- Petition to establish a marine reserve in the Chagos Islands
- How the bees died (we think)
- All our bees are dead
- Poem // Captain of my Wardrobe
- Poem // Pagan
- Poem // Imbolc 2010
- Poem for Imbolc: introductory thoughts on the power of poetry
- Boots the Chemist: if it ain't got sugar and chemicals, we don't sell it anymore
January 2010
- Vindemiatrix (or, I followed a star)
- The iPad: what's the point?
- Apple to announce a new iWotsit today
- First look at the Silkies, and how Mulder got on in his new home
- Poem // Black Widow
- iPhone 3GS feeling hot, hot, hot as O2 gets some heat over mis-sold insurance
- No facts. No figures. No research. Just old-fashioned anti-gay hatred and lies.
- Mulder's last day with us
- Poem // Bodies
- What's best for the bird: a difficult decision reached
- Poem // Cuckoos
- Poem // The Ship Wreckers
- Poem // The Grandfather Clock
- If you've never worked and get ill, you get more benefits than those who work and then get ill
- Google and China - who didn't see this coming, besides Google?
- Judge ends rape case after woman's sexual fantasies revealed
- FOX News couldn't get Hitler so they hired Sarah Palin instead
- Cameron on David Tennant and Doctor Who: the dislike is mutual
- Neighbour's X-rated soundtrack picked up by wireless headphones
- Tories blame Labour for not predicting the weather
- As if we needed another reason to love David Tennant...
- Is the fall of Facebook imminent?
- Nexus One, the Google superphone (apparently)
- Death of a snowman
- The blessing that is water
- Poem // Some Say There Are No Gods
- Guardian review of last night's Doctor Who: rather ignorant, mildly annoying
- Swedish wolf-killing: do the maths
- Happy New Year from The Spicy Cauldron
December 2009
- Apple insults UK gay and lesbian community with homophobic film giveaway
- And on New Year's Eve the cockerel did crow
- Britain criticised over response to China
- What are YOUR predictions for 2010?
- UK employers need to adapt and change
- Poem // The Conversion of Christ
- Poem // Call It Christmas, Call It Yule
- Doctor Who 'The End of Time' a deliciously OTT send-off
- Victoria Wood's unexpected Christmas turkey
- So this is Christmas
- Poem // Avalon
- OFT gives up unfair bank charges fight but FSA will intervene in hardship cases
- Happy Yule!
- A baby gull rescue and the goddess Rhiannon
- Poem // Dagda
- If, as expected, Copenhagen fails...
- The (chicken) ladies (and boy) who complain... about snow
- Snow is an opportunity to help others, and have fun
- The Spicy Cauldron is back, but different...
- Santa Claus and his coats of many colours
- Renting 'no bad thing' says home-owning housing minister
- The insanity of climate change deniers
- 5 true confessions... from my London past
- Humans can't cause climate change? Think again!
- There's nothing wrong with the hive - it's the drones, stupid
- Poem // The Lunatics
- UK Prime Minister calls climate change deniers 'flat-earthers'
- 'Green Website' - how to reduce your readers' CO2 emissions with Online Leaf
- Today is World AIDS Day. Don't just think. Understand. Act.
November 2009
- How to kill boring websites: start charging people to be bored
- One online bookshop to rule them all
- 58,413 words in 25 days, with more to follow
- Why do people pay for friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter?
- My 2007 MacBook Pro 17: the horror of the swollen battery
- My first-ever NaNoWriMo - and I've done it!
- NaNoWriMo: the inner editor must die!
- Tories plan political control of police forces
- The Sun will use anyone, and anything, to smear Gordon Brown - especially grieving mothers
- Writing is magick
- Day 3 of NaNoWriMo
- More on writing on day 2 of NaNoWriMo
- The first day of NaNoWriMo
October 2009
- Apple TV 3.0 review
- Meaties and veggies who serve up poison are not the change-makers we need
- Poem // The Locket
- Caring for bees and chickens connects you to the wheel of the year
- RIP Stephen Gately
- Future energy costs should make us act wisely today
- These are a few of my favourite things
September 2009
- Chris Packham, you're wrong about pandas
- Mabon blessings to all
- Farm animals are dirty and dangerous, and everyone's a threat - what a message to give out to our kids, eh?
- Multiple universes, cosmic loneliness, the pointlessness of prejudice
- How to rollback iPhone software 3.1 to 3.0.1
- Global warming - it's time to choose: fight or sleepwalk
- Living on borrowed time in a mad world
August 2009
- Join the Quash the Squash campaign today!
- The beautiful game - but some of its supporters are ugly as hell
- WHO condemns homeopathy but there are different opinions
- Alektorophobia, aichmophobia, coulrophobia... What's YOUR phobia?
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
December 2008
September 2008
August 2008
June 2008
May 2008
- Kenyan mob burns 11 old people as 'Witches'
- Tradition and grammar: tribal morris dancers, and Paganism versus paganism
- "Environmentalists are anti-immigration nationalists" - say what?
- Cora Anderson 1915-2008: a great lady, a powerful and loving spirit
April 2008
- End capitalism to save the planet, urges Bolivian President
- Spiritualists predict trouble as UK government targets their religion
- Stonehenge a hospital?
March 2008
February 2008
- Goldfrapp's mystical and marvellous Seventh Tree
- Boycott Tesco starting today, improve the lives of millions of chickens
- 7 weird things about me
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
January 2007
December 2006
September 2006
August 2006
June 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
June 2005
April 2005
- The Tarot
- Ariel: The Restored Edition [a review, part 2]
- Famous and infamous people: who I've met, who I'd like to meet
- Ariel: The Restored Edition [a review, part 1]
- Gamer's Thumb
- Goddess with 100ft breasts
- VOTE LOCAL
