Blogcoven

I am writing full-time* in work. This means that it is even harder to decide how to fill the empty, demanding text box that sits at the dark heart of the ‘Coven’s inner workings. Normally, I just let it pass, but I worry that if i leave it too long, people will forget that I [...]

Urgh, things are going from bad to worse at the moment. In the interim, Hilary Clinton has suspended here election bid. It might interest you to see A visualisation of how things look by demographics by state. Obama is in for the Dems, but he is looking worse and worse as a candidate for the [...]

California is stereotyped as super-liberal, the home of the granola-crunching, tree-hugging hippies, and a generally safe place for people with alternate lifestyles, beliefs, and viewpoints.
I’ve done a little work trying to dispel the myth, explaining where it comes from (yes, California’s major cities are pretty hippy but there are a lot of wide open [...]

I was a member of what was perhaps the last year of undergraduates to have known the old Lincoln’s Inn. Apart form the clever joke, the best thing about that pub was that, inside its purple-and-white livery, it was an uncompromisingly dingy pub. The important thing was that it was a friendly, uncompromisingly dingy pub. [...]

Eartha Kitt: I Wanna Be Evil - its a great song and such a window into the Golden Era of the Fifties.