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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:30:06 -0800

UK employers need to adapt and change
If you ever sit and wonder why Britain is the only Western country still mired in recession, consider the fact that the...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:16:44 -0800

What are YOUR predictions for 2010?
You don’t have to be in possession of a crystal ball or animal entrails to have a go at predicting what’s going to...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:08:52 -0800

Poem // The Conversion of Christ
The Conversion of Christ is a poem that I’m particularly proud of. It got the seal of approval from my former Creative...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:50:40 -0800

Poem // Call It Christmas, Call It Yule
Call It Christmas, Call It Yule is a poem first written in December 2006. It has been substantially reworked for 2009. Poems,...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:30:34 -0800

Doctor Who ‘The End of Time’ a deliciously OTT send-off
The first episode of David Tennant’s final Doctor Who story The End of Time aired on Christmas Day here in the UK and you...
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Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:48:11 -0800

Victoria Wood’s unexpected Christmas turkey
It’s early on Christmas Day and even the cats aren’t fully awake while the chickens are only just starting to stir...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:57:07 -0800

So this is Christmas
…and what have you done, as the song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono asks. We’re ready in this house. Almost. We got...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:12:19 -0800

OFT gives up unfair bank charges fight but FSA will intervene in hardship cases
Despite the Office of Fair Trading giving bankers an early Christmas present by deciding to drop its investigation into unfair...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:49:08 -0800

Happy Yule!
I’d like to take the opportunity this Midwinter Solstice to wish all my readers a very Happy Yule and every blessing for...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:30:53 -0800

MacBook Pro won’t wake up, going to Apple Hospital today
I left my 2007 MacBook Pro 17 on sleep yesterday evening and it wouldn’t wake up when I returned to it a short time...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:03:02 -0800

A baby gull rescue and the goddess Rhiannon
On Saturday morning I saw one of our cats, Billy, walking round the back garden with a large mostly white bird hanging from his...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:47:40 -0800

Poem // Dagda
I wrote the first version of my poem Dagda back in October 2004, and the verses were shortly afterwards used in casting a...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:35:45 -0800

If, as expected, Copenhagen fails…
We will have to do as James Lovelock has suggested: prepare for the worst case scenario. Massive temperature rises in some...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:07:33 -0800

The (chicken) ladies (and boy) who complain… about snow
I used my new iPhone 3GS this morning to capture some of our chickens’ antics in the snow. It’s the first time...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:50:38 -0800

Snow is an opportunity to help others, and have fun
I woke this morning to the thickest blanket of snow outside the bedroom window I’ve seen in years, and it continues as I...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:10:25 -0800

The Spicy Cauldron is back, but different…
…and just look what I’ve done to the place! I have suffered from the most horrible depression this week and I mean...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:30:58 -0800

Santa Claus and his coats of many colours
Do you think it’s of concern to Christian fundamentalists that Santa is an anagram of Satan, and they’re both red?...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:55:46 -0800

A very personal winter: thank you, and goodbye for a time
I’ve decided that, with a particularly long chapter in my life drawing to a close, it is time to put away the past and...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:02:27 -0800

Poem: I Am Either
I am either crazy or I am brave. I am either crazy or I have faith. I am either crazy or closer to the Gods than ever...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:11:24 -0800

Renting ‘no bad thing’ says home-owning housing minister
The era in which all Britons aspire to own their own home may be coming to an end according to the housing minister, John...
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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:42:05 -0800

And I thought it was just my eyes, but no – hundreds complain about BBC HD picture quality
When our household first got a Sky HD digibox, the BBC HD channel was the first we watched. The adaptation of Dickens’...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:32:33 -0800

5 true confessions… from my London past
Jimmy Somerville via last.fm 1. I once worked as a cloakroom attendant at Heaven in London, and was treated very badly by...
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Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:03:23 -0800

Humans can’t cause climate change? Think again!
A single volcano erupting can put enough of a sulphurous mess into the atmosphere to cause rapid cooling of the Earth. The...
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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:35:13 -0800

There’s nothing wrong with the hive – it’s the drones, stupid
Two stories today that really should be set side by side in our contemplations. One, the doctor’s sick note is to be...
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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:32:44 -0800

UK Prime Minister calls climate change deniers ‘flat-earthers’
Image by Ken Snyder Photog via Flickr UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has described climate change deniers as...
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