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The Spicy Cauldron

http://spicycauldron.com

Life, and then some: poetry, paganism, opinion, audioblogging, news, politics, dreams, adoption, music, love. And sometimes cats.

• Added on: Feb 6th, 2006
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Listed in: Poems Spirituality Gay and Lesbian
• Tags: technology animals Creative creative writing tweets briefly

Recent Posts

• One online bookshop to rule them all

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 02:33 in technology, writers, Creative, amazon, agents, news and politics, perspectives, borders, publishers, waterstones, booksellers, kindle

  Image via Wikipedia Like Sauron’s Ring, the notion of a single red-eyed Amazon sweeping all competing bookstores aside has long filled with me horror at the decades of darkness such domination could usher in for publishers and authors ar...

• We lost a battle, not the war – the fight against the big banks goes on, with new tactics

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 02:08 in money, news and politics, perspectives, banking, unfair bank charges, co-operative bank, high street banks, ethical banking, striking back, consumer fight-back

  We may have lost the battle yesterday but we have not lost the war. The fight over unfair bank charges is not over, and there is something you can do to strike back at the big players, whatever your beef with them—not just charges—and tha...

• 58,413 words in 25 days, with more to follow

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:29 in nanowrimo, Creative, creative writing, word count, first draft, scrivener, national novel writing month, novel-writing

  Okay, so we all know bragging is not the most appealing of things to do. It’s only a one time thing, so bear with me okay? I’ve had my words so far validated by the text robot on the NaNoWriMo website and it returned this lovely image an...

• Mulder and Dorcas: how chicks grow, and grow, and grow!

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 04:04 in animals, chickens, hens, pullets, cockerels, silver dorkings, copper blue marans

  How much has Mulder the mutant four-winged Copper Blue Marans cockerel grown? Answer, a lot! And a photograph doesn’t do justice to the gleaming autumnal colours on his back or the soft greys and blues below. This past week he’s sprouted...

• Will the banks continue their war against the British people after today’s Supreme Court verdict?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 01:57 in democracy, news and politics, perspectives, banking, general election, unfair bank charges, financial services authority, uk supreme court

  So, at 9.45am today will the banks prove that they’re willing to become even more despised and go against government and opposition urgings for them to bring the long-running battle over unfair charges to a rapid close—or will they, as th...

• Bank of England helped housewife out with secret loan now revealed

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 11:05 in comedy, satire, Creative, news and politics, banking, spoof, bank of england, mervyn king, public finances

  Image via Wikipedia The Bank of England has revealed for the first time that it lent a housewife in Bolton £61.60 in emergency funding last autumn. Bank governor Mervyn King told a committee of MPs it “was to stop the woman from having her g...

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