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	<title>Turn Left At The Bridge</title>
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		<title>More Reasons to be Cheerful&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/03/more-reasons-to-be-cheerful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So.  Yesterday was my birthday, when I hit the Big One (count the candles on my cake and multiply by 10).   And I aren&#8217;t ded yet! The day before (Sunday), Daughter no.3 and her husband  came up, laden with prezzies, wine and a birthday cake &#8211; made by Daughter&#8217;s fair hands! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 372&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/02/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-372/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst somewhat gloomily contemplating the fact that I&#8217;ll be collecting my bus pass next month, I read a message from Son on Facebook.  Earlier he had posted a Youtube link to his current favourite bit of music.  I posted back that I liked it and would be &#8220;stealing it for my iPod&#8221;.
Son has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down to business&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/01/down-to-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks, I&#8217;ve been thinking quite hard about getting much more business-like with my web design work.   The web has  a lot of helpful advice for design freelancers who want to be more professional &#8211; John O&#8217;Nolan has a couple of good articles (it helps a lot that he&#8217;s British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Heart of Darkness&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/01/into-the-heart-of-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journeys]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rochdale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday we ventured out &#8211; far, far out.
WE had to collect a laser printer from Rochdale.  It had already been waiting a week, it was desperately needed for a printing job (our current printer having turned up its toes in the middle of it); the seller refused to pack it  so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/01/decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defaulting clients]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yet another non-appearance of a   cheque that was supposed to be on its way since well before Christmas, I&#8217;ve decided that all future business customers will have to pay a deposit (by Paypal, to forestall  any more &#8220;the cheque&#8217;s in the post&#8221; excuses)  before I start any work for them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Cold&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2010/01/its-cold-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.dammed cold.  According to the news, the temperature last night here was around -10&#176;C.  Today, it&#8217;s still below 0&#176;C and is expected to drop to -12&#176;C.  Minus 12 Centigrade is minus 20 Fahrenheit!!!  And the long-term forecast is for more of the same.
I can remember the &#8220;Big Freeze&#8221; winter of 1962/3, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Still very quiet here, still relaxing (mostly).  I&#8217;m still working on updating three websites, and also thinking hard about changing the Oakleaf Circle site over to a CMS.
At least twice in the past, I&#8217;ve attempted to do this but had to abandon the effort.  However, since then I&#8217;ve had more practice using Wordpress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T&#8217;is the Night Before Christmas&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/tis-the-night-before-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/tis-the-night-before-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yule]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well actually it&#8217;s still the afternoon, but what the heck.
Got the Yule feasting done, got the big food shop over with, the coal bunker is full, we have  torches and candles in case of electricity failure.  It&#8217;s brrrrr-type cold outside, but it&#8217;s well above freezing here in the hallway  where my trusty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Listening Post&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/the-listening-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/the-listening-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.Earlier this year I won an iPod in a draw, and started listening to podcasts.   I get insomnia quite a lot, so it&#8217;s something to listen to in bed that doesn&#8217;t disturb my partner.  Wanting to do something useful with those hours, I listen mainly to science and web design podcasts.
After listening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Plan B&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/back-to-plan-b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.valdobson.co.uk/blog/2009/12/back-to-plan-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t be getting paid as soon as I thought, so all that lovely Yule spending is off. Botheration.  No camera, no new whizzy-fast computer.  And no prezzies for anyone.  (Not that I could have afforded to match the iPhone that Grandchild no.2 received for her birthday last Tuesday &#8211; but sending [...]]]></description>
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