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  • 2 weeks ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

    One rolled in shit - wearily I bent to do the cautious appraising sniff. It was dried fox or badger probably, both are vile and have a musk that clings on to fur no matter how much soap is applied. There was much to be thankful for. Nothing is as bad as human. I breathed out and was just feeling the beginnings of calm when I realised the other had disappeared for too long and the tracker didn’t work and the panic in my voice rose. The concern was not that she’d leg it for miles. Or go for livestock.

  • 3 weeks ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

    Aside from a flying visit, I hadn’t been to London for exactly a month until I drove up last Thursday. I walked into Tom Conran’s The Cow, a pub I’ve been going to since last millennium and my twenties. MY TWENTIES! And saw it with fresh loved-up eyes. Oxytocin flooded out of me for a pub, not a puppy or a baby but a pub with red lino, great music, good beer, sparkling oysters, vibes coming out of every crack and crease of it and murals by Paul Slater.

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

    My car got locked inat Hauser + Wirththe gallery where something notable and nice for your wallscosts the earthit sits at the top of a road near my house,my rented council palace,in BrutonAccidental larks with poorly composed pictures (2025) screen grab, liquid crystals and back light. cont…

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

    Interviewer: What do you hold responsible for your success? Bukowski: A brutal childhood, alcohol, half a dozen rotten jobs, a dozen rotten women, plus an overpowering fear of everything, plus a strange arrival of luck and bravery in sub-zero situations. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and WritingCharles Bukowski is an actually genius at what is called auto-fiction, confessional literature with narrative thread.

  • 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?

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