Kate Spicer

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

When I first meet the famous psychic Estelle Bingham I’m in a terrible state. Ten minutes before our scheduled Zoom chat, I receive a text telling me I am effectively homeless thanks to ongoing issues over who is going to live in the flat my ex-boyfriend and I once shared. The thought of finding, furnishing and funding a home, while working to earn a crust and managing my two high-maintenance dogs, has me panicked and nauseous with stress.

1 month ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

*Please forgive me if you are currently dealing with something worse than having to leave a nice neighbourhood in London to move to a nice neighbourhood in the West Country lite*. In what were my most self-pitying, and yet bold, financially sensible and curious moments, I searched RightMove in Wigan, then Grimsby, even Scunthorpe. It made me feel like I was better off: big house in a nice part of Grimsby for 800 quid. Could work?

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

I have two old and precious friends I’ve known since my late teens. We met as our adult lives lay just ahead on the horizon, and they have been a constant throughout my life. Despite the fact that our lives are very different now. Bel* is a housewife and mother of two adult kids who left London in the year 2000. Caz* is a financially independent artist and academic, a divorcee now, and single mum who always seems to be living in a new exotic city. Me? Never married, no kids, a writer.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

I'm playing around with a computer program, usually operated by a smartly-dressed dermatologist with razor-sharp cheekbones. On a big screen, I can adjust the controls to show how my face would look, enhanced by skin softeners, fillers, or Botox. I turn up all the settings to the max. At the end the image looks nothing like me but bears a striking resemblance to Madonna.

2 months ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

Access to the locked basement of my mind is £35 a year (or £6.66 a month, ie, £80 a year)Last year I wrote a story about people who have faith and belief that you can access other realms at multiple locations on both the island of Malta and its neighbouring island, Gozo. Malta is a weird place. Churches everywhere, huge churches, more churches per capita than anywhere else on earth. People kept saying, “What do they hide. What are they trying to control.