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	<description>Pick a delusion that helps get you through the day</description>
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		<title>F is for Charles Fey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Where would Las Vegas be without the fruit machine, the invention of car mechanic Charles Fey? Charles was born Augustus Fey in Vöhringen, Bavaria, in 1862, the youngest of sixteen children. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say there are three telltale signs of ageing: the first that you can no longer eat pizza after sundown, second that you invariably go &#8216;oof!&#8217; every time you sit in an armchair. And I can&#8217;t remember what the third one is. It is those memory lapses that will do for me yet. I often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Both Ends Meat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The power of words is never more apparent than when someone is trying to make you worry about your health, whether it is justified or not. I was listening to an interview on Radio Five Live this morning about the scientists in Holland who are growing meat in the laboratory from stem cells and hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E is for Edgar the Etheling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC Wednesday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. If asked who became King of England after the Battle of Hastings, most people, me included, would say William the Conqueror, but in fact it was Edgar the Etheling (or Ætheling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Nothing At All</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/13/writing-nothing-at-all</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it odd the way that blogger&#8217;s block can hit you out of the blue? One minute you&#8217;re all self-opinionated and the next there&#8217;s not a thought in your head, original or otherwise. I did start a few posts, but they didn&#8217;t really go anywhere. For example, I began writing about Abu Qatada and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Right Jack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t think of a thing to write about at the moment, not that that has stopped me before, so I thought I&#8217;d simply publish this photo of our dog Jack. It&#8217;s one I took at Christmas as he chomped his way through one of his treats. The reason it has surfaced again now is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D is for Dr Dicky Doyle</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/08/d-is-for-dr-dicky-doyle</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC Wednesday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Dicky Doyle was a doctor who successfully treated a man who had been partially decapitated at the notorious Changi jail in Singapore during World Wat Two. Born in LIverpool in 1906, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha Course</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/06/alpha-course</link>
		<comments>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/06/alpha-course#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books and Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am occasionally pulled up on the spelling errors and typos that crop up in Shooting Parrots and that is how it should be. If it wasn’t for the metaphorical blue pencil, where would the language be? And because I’m prone to a gaffe or two myself, I’m loath to point the grammatical finger, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blue Skies</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/03/blue-skies</link>
		<comments>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/03/blue-skies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[High pressure over the UK has meant that we&#8217;ve enjoyed clear blue skies over the past few days. I say &#8216;enjoy&#8217; even though the same conditions have kept the temperature low, but at least it has been still, so no wind chill factor. I should have made the most of it and been out there [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rolling Rice Krispies</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/02/02/rolling-rice-krispies</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moving Pictures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve embarked on my fourth round of ABC Wednesday, deciding this time to focus on people, famous or otherwise, and interesting things you may not know about them. For example, did you know that Bob Dylan tried his hand at acting in the UK early in his career, appearing in a BBC play, Madhouse on [...]]]></description>
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