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construction notes…
This site is being rebuilt, and I have decided to do it in public. The plan is simple: put new work up when it is ready, rather than holding everything back until the whole thing is finished. A site that is visibly in progress is more useful than one that says nothing for months. So…
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Welcome to
SeahavenBowen IslandIn The Truman Show the town is called Seahaven. It is sunny, it is tidy, everyone is pleasant, and none of it is real. It is a television set built to be watched, and anything that might spoil the mood, a real feeling, an awkward fact, a person who steps out of line, gets quietly…
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what i did on my summer vacation…
This summer I wrote a lot of submissions, and made seven freedom of information requests to six different bodies. The requests are a story of their own, for another time. Most of the submissions are long and detailed, because the questions they deal with are complex. This post is not a summary of them. The…
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9: catching up and moving on…bylaws and bad governance
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 9 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 Get ready for bylaws, bad government, plenty of acronyms, and more. This post will gallop through a series of things established in earlier cidergate posts, and start to connect them to…
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just when you thought it was safe…
Well. Here I am again. I’ve been busy away from here for a while, other projects, life. Swimming. But I have been working on posts and (if it doesn’t sound too portentous) lines of research. I referred elsewhere to having the stamina to read 400 pages of redacted records – I’ve been reading a great…
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8. rinse, repeat
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 8 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 In my last post, I made reference to: That post also makes clear that cider production produces very large quantities of water carrying a lot of bioactive matter. Another way to…
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7: diving back to earth…
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 7 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 Starting here, this series of posts looks at the law, the facts, and the science surrounding the issuing of a Temporary Use Permit to Riley’s Cidery in 2021 and the consequences…
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6: Riley’s Cidery – the (dirty) truth
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 6 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 The entire story of how Riley’s Cidery on Bowen Island came to be is a story of manipulation, half-truths, misdirection, and fantasy. It is a product of the collision of our…
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Work in Progress – towards a history of Bowen Island, BC
This post is the first in a new category which I’m calling WIP – short for a work in progress. This blog, ultimately, is about what can be learnt from the history of a small island, Bowen Island, in British Columbia, Canada, at this particular time in the 21st century. And it’s a one-woman project,…
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5: Riley’s Cidery and BIM: swimming with sharks?
Rotten on Bowen: cidergate series POST 5 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth…