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	<description>Pick a delusion that helps get you through the day</description>
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		<title>Blue Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Rolling Rice Krispies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>C is for George Cayley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:04:42 +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. The first person to fly in a heavier-than-air machine wasn&#8217;t the Wright brothers, but an unknown coachman who did so in 1853. He worked for the Yorkshireman, Sir George Cayley, sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age Old Story</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/31/age-old-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been sat by the phone all morning, but it has remained silent, apart from someone called Andy from a call centre in India trying to sell me something that I couldn&#8217;t understand due to his impenetrable accent. I&#8217;m sure it would have been worth my while persevering with the conversation, but I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Technology</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/30/reverse-technology-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The digital camera has revolutionised photography in as much as we can now take as many photos as we want, view them instantly on screen and then completely lose them in the depths of our computer hard drive. When I was younger, my mum would occasionally the family treasure chest of photos. This was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furthermore</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/27/furthermore</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books and Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I like to think that I&#8217;m not too much of a language snob, but suspect that I am really. I certainly feel my hackles rise when words are used incorrectly, but especially by people who should know better. I was in our local supermarket this morning and decided to browse the paperbacks, picking up The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Lottery</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/26/job-lottery</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC  ran a story yesterday about three street cleaners in Edinburgh who have been temporarily reinstated after they were chosen for redundancy by drawing names out of a cereal bowl. Edinburgh Council needed to get rid of seven of their 13 agency staff. They managed to select four based on their performance, but couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B is for Backing Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My contribution to ABC Wednesday which for Round 10 I am focusing on people from the past. Although I mean to focus on interesting individuals from the past for this round of ABC Wednesday, this post is about an entire nation who briefly joined the I&#8217;m Backing Britain campaign of 1968. It was a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/24/lost-in-translation-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Babel fish is one of the great literary devices; a fish that &#8216;feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain.&#8217; Douglas Adams created it for H2G2 as a universal translator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Be Offended</title>
		<link>http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2012/01/23/please-be-offended</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t life dull at the moment? You can tell that there isn&#8217;t much of interest going on when the Telegraph headlines complaints about a Jay Leno joke. I think that an online petition of 2,000 names out of the 15 million Sikhs in India amounts to little more than a storm in a cup of [...]]]></description>
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