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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
I’m moving out of my flat on Thursday. The van comes at nine and my wordly goods will go to Somerset, and my leaden heart will follow in my new motor car. I say new, it’s £2000 quid twenty year old E class Mercedes that I found on eBay and bought from a very nice British Asian gentleman in Wembley at 11pm last Sunday night. The guy was so very nice I figured his car must be nice too. I try not to give advice here, but I’m going to give some for free now.
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3 weeks ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Announcing my fantasy writing and wining retreat at Chateau de Sacy by the roundabout routeHi! I’m Troy McClure Kate Spicer. You might remember me from such newspaper articles as I'm unmarried and childless at 54!and A horrific WhatsApp ruined my life and at 55 I moved back home to live with my Mum, and I’m unmarried and childless and ate nothing but meat, eggs and dripping and the all time classic I'm 55 and newly diagnosed with ADHD.
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Have you ever read any of Carrie Fisher’s books? She’s dead now. I read Post Cards from the Edge (1987) when it first came out and I’d just left home. Books don’t really stick in my mind, but this one did. It’s not just the compelling chaos and glamour of her Hollywood life, she writes with grim humour about the the downs and ups of her love life, acting career, weight, mother-daughter relationship and addiction issues. She turns her mental health tragedy in to proper LOLs comedy.
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Donald’s special red carpet for shaven-headed, pugilistic pimps and rapists has been worn bare lately what with the Tate brothers and Conor McGregor swaggering around in the President of America’s immediate orbit like they were diplomats or foreign dignitaries instead of your average antediluvian scumbags. In a game of snog, marry, shoot in the head, I’d be hard pushed to choose.
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Getting in last night round midnight or thereabouts, I’d have liked to think I was keen to get to my bed. But there were things to do. The dogs had created one of their mess en scene, an epic tableaux having deconstructed the sitting room. Toys and sofa cushions tossed across the floor, a lamp broken, paper torn and thrown everywhere. The dogs had to go out so I clipped on their leads, lit a cigarette and went out to be yanked in two directions.
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Living among the honey coloured stone of a desirably ye olde village outside Frome, I learnt a little about the decorative difference between 12th and 13th Century ecclesiastical pillars and arches. Not to Mastermind specialist subject levels, but perhaps I could in some of the possible universes out there answer a pub quiz question correctly that, had I not dwelled in my exquisite converted pigsty, I would otherwise have not. Which is to say, I came away having learned very close to nothing.
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1 month ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Suttee: practice, a chiefly historical one, in which Hindu widow burns alive on deceased husband's funeral pyre either voluntarily, by coercion, or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live. SourcePopular Hindu usage lent it the additional meaning of a 'virtuous woman'.
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2 months ago | 
katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer
Is it me, or are the people in charge of everything more bonkers than ever? The ones that seem most hellbent on upending democracy are the craziest of them all. Dictators are always a bit mad, aren’t they? Mad, and reliant on a special matrix of paranoia and lies that justify their behaviour. Stanley Kubrick’s cold war satire, Dr Strangelove, is about the fruit loop US Army general Jack D Ripper’s determination to nuke Russia because he believes they are fluoridating the water to poison American.