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		<title>The Wind Waif of Weald Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You’re not having a bike so don’t keep on about it!” “But Mum…” “Did you hear what I said?”
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		<title>Celtic Legends Fell Feline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it was on in our village theatre we succumbed to temptation and forked out 25 euros to go and see Celtic Legends. 
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		<title>Two grey hairs and a splodge of BBQ sauce</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Chicken or lasagne?&#8221; says the stewardess in a challenging voice. &#8220;Vegetarian please young lady,&#8221; commands the peroxide septuagenarian blonde in row 30. With her surly face and total disregard for others she reminds me of my defunct mother-in-law, better known as the ‘unmentionable’. 
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		<title>No holds barred</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old man left school at the age of 12 after his own father had gone and got himself killed for king and poverty in the first battle of the Somme. As de facto head of the burgeoning Taylor household in Roman Rd, Ilford, there was to be no schooling for him. In wartime the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=btcstr.wordpress.com&blog=1125567&post=103&subd=btcstr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left hand Lenny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I thought you said you knew how to drive,” said Auntie Edith tartly, clutching the leather handbag containing all her money tightly to her chest. “A right pickle you’ve landed us in now!” Devoted as he was to his wife of 35 years standing, Lenny detested that superior air of hers. “Gawd, give me strength,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=btcstr.wordpress.com&blog=1125567&post=74&subd=btcstr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The man who couldn&#8217;t come</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man and his wife pushed open the doors of the fertility clinic, with hope in their hearts. It was 1984, the year in which Richard Burton and Truman Capote died and the AIDS virus was first identified. Perhaps, thought the couple, artificial means might succeed where the natural way had failed. 

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		<title>Nowheresville</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long straight highway across the middle of nowhere approaches a small town out west in the USA. In my mind’s eye, influenced by the brash roadside hoardings that have been clamouring for my attention along the endless road for the last 10 miles, it is a bustling conurbation, full of life. 
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		<title>The Great British Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grandfather George was a cook in the Great British Army. A veteran of several campaigns with the Royal Kents in the Boer war, he was, by all accounts, a popular man. As a ten-year old child, my father, another George, was fiercely proud of his Dad in uniform. He cut such a fine figure, with his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=btcstr.wordpress.com&blog=1125567&post=29&subd=btcstr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wan Zoreille</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After making a brash exit from St Denis &#8211; the provincial capital of the French overseas département of La Réunion &#8211; the RN1 widens westwards into an anxious dual carriageway road, complete with worrying warning signs and dazzling danger lights. Thus alerted, it penetrates into a skinny coastal strip of strewn boulders that runs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=btcstr.wordpress.com&blog=1125567&post=22&subd=btcstr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Galleon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping gingerly on Saturday around the dog dejections on the way back from La Poste, I found myself walking in the wake of an African lady. She was sheltering her considerable bulk under a multicoloured headscarf that had been wrapped about her noble prow in such a way as to make her seem taller than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=btcstr.wordpress.com&blog=1125567&post=28&subd=btcstr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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