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	<title>Aw Diddums</title>
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		<title>Skylarking</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/skylarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably not the coolest person in iTunes tonight. I&#8217;m going through a pile of CDs to see whether or not I like them&#8230; many were charity shop gifts from Mum that I never got around to trying. Two CDs so far came back with the message &#8216;Couldn&#8217;t find the song titles online &#8211; do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2283&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight for Good</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-fight-for-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dreams and Nightmares]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dreamed that James Bond was taken by surprise and fired off three shots at one of the bloggers&#8230; but it was all right, because I targeted him with a clear diamond abstract in Photoshop. The whole world he was in became pleasant and story-like, and nothing bad ever really happened.
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		<title>Light Relief (I Think)</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/light-relief-i-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dreams and Nightmares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal journals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trivialities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Random snippets from my private journals:
(1) On our duckpond walk, I said to Mum something about people leaving personal memorials in beauty spots &#8212; sometimes there are so many they have to be removed. Mum said &#8220;the world is full of strange people.&#8221; I thought a bit and said, &#8220;I have a theory that people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2272&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something Thick This Way Comes</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/something-thick-this-way-comes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diddums</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV and Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[germs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was horrified to come home and find that my cat Samson had left muddy pawprints all round the toilet seat and down into the bowl&#8230; where he&#8217;s probably been drinking. I thought he had grown out of that by now, especially with his lovely cat fountain downstairs!
I warned Mum, and tonight there was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2268&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubting Oneself</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/doubting-oneself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal journals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another blogger said recently we must write for ourselves, not other people &#8212; and I&#8217;ve been trying to use that thought to get my blog running a bit more smoothly. I&#8217;ve been re-reading things I&#8217;ve written and doubting them, just as I create pictures and doubt them. The difference is that I look again at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2266&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bond Cats</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/007-and-octopussy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diddums</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speechless]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another blogger said a couple of times how, when he feels really strongly about something, he can&#8217;t bring himself to speak. It reminded me of when I was saying to Mum how Samson was &#8216;Octopussy&#8217; because he&#8217;s my eighth cat. I opened my mouth to add &#8220;Sharky was 007&#8243; and the words refused to come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2249&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deafness and Depression</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/deafness-and-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agoraphobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive behavioural therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deafness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this discussion on the BBC Ouch! forum about deafness and depression; I particularly liked the messages from Number 23 onwards. And Message 27 is depressing!! Black comedy, if you like.
Things are said there that I&#8217;ve thought a lot myself over the years. Even on the internet it&#8217;s so obvious that therapists&#8217; advice is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2246&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subtitle Grumble</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/subtitle-grumble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darling Buds of May]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answered the Soulless TV comments (see my last blog post).
I don&#8217;t like snooker but Mum tends to have it on TV. Was idly watching the subtitles&#8230; one of the  players was looking very tense, and the commentators said:
&#8220;He has a tendency to torture himself.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, he puts himself through the Windmill.&#8221;
I said to Mum &#8220;did they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2239&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soulless TV</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/soulless-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gender Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV and Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good against bad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good versus evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Halloween!
Hope you have all enjoyed your day. We paid Halloween more attention than usual&#8230; decorated a little bit, wore something colourful (but not spooky or dressy), and had a family Halloween dinner. We have a ceramic pumpkin from Aldi&#8217;s, in which we burned cinnamon and orange tealights. We had no guisers and are having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2236&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bally Times</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/bally-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was looking at a rack of Halloween costumes today, and found:
Luscious Lady Bug
Fairy Tale Princess
Cleopatra
Eh?? Strange Halloween selection, but it all points at the fact that it&#8217;s an evolving holiday.
It seems to be on our minds a lot&#8230; Mum pointed out some shiny black curtains, and I said &#8220;Halloween curtains!&#8221; Then we went into another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2233&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Elements</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/halloween-elements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lost in Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macabre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mad scientists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to confess the reason I started thinking more closely about what makes a Halloween scene or image was that I made a desktop wallpaper for the Halloween part of a site &#8212; it was promptly booted out into a more general category.
Oooops. Part of me really hates that&#8230;. being wrong, and having to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2228&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Halloween About to You?</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/what-is-halloween-about-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diddums</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lost in Thought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to figure this out&#8230; what Halloween is about? Is it always pumpkins, witches, bats and ghouls, or is there something more? Can it be about anything surreal or spooky? Provided there&#8217;s a big moon in an image, or a black cat, is it Halloween? If there&#8217;s no big moon, does it stop being Halloween?
I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2221&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Shop Mumble</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/coffee-shop-mumble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bagging seats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still away on Planet Zog, but I&#8217;m sending a quick postcard.
Since the students came back, we&#8217;ve been finding it harder to get ourselves a place in a coffee shop. There&#8217;s one place in particular we&#8217;ve not been in for a while. Mum is still mumbling that she doesn&#8217;t know how students can afford it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2219&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Confusion</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/growing-confusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[confusion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started up Firefox to search for something on the internet&#8230; and then when I got there, I couldn&#8217;t remember what I meant to do.
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		<title>Gazing at the Constellations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/gazing-at-the-constellations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Computer Graphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teddy Bears]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A portrait of my favourite dragon, Stargazer.  
I did it in Photoshop Elements today. I cheated by having the photograph on a bottom layer as a guide, but the actual painting (by mouse) is mine. It&#8217;s a bit rough, but it all takes practice.
Stargazer says his dad was as big as the container lorry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2215&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passing Impressions</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/passing-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deafness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;ve not been blog-reading much lately&#8230; it&#8217;s because I was spending time in Apophysis and Photoshop again! Those projects take up a huge amount of my attention, but things go in cycles&#8230; before you know it, I&#8217;ll be having a break and catching up with the blogs again.
For now, here are some random [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2210&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Utherworlds</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/utherworlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On DeviantArt I saw the announcement of this site: Utherworlds by Philip Straub. See the paintings, read the message. 
Lovely way to start the day.
PS I should have mentioned that Utherworlds is &#8216;a new kind of&#8217; graphic novel (see here). I know some of you like graphic novels, though not necessarily the term itself. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2205&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Keyboards</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/apple-keyboards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When following instructions or tutorials, it&#8217;s always irritated me that I&#8217;m told &#8220;use the command and the option key on the Mac,&#8221; as neither key is marked as such! I can never remember which is which, and always have to guess, trying different key combinations till it works out.
The sharp key is another such&#8230; it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2199&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wallpaper Find</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/wallpaper-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Desktop Pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[35 Beautiful High Resolution Wallpapers: the kind of page that bursts your bubble just after you&#8217;ve made a wallpaper you were really quite pleased with&#8230; LOL  
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		<title>Button Pushing?</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/button-pushing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[definition of art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fractal art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is fractal art &#8216;button-pushing&#8217;? Is photography, come to that? What is art &#8212; does it only count when you have developed some skill&#8230; whether in pushing the right buttons or in some other way?
I found a button-pushing discussion on deviantArt just now!
A couple of years ago I wrote a post called How Do We Define [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2193&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Habit</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-book-habit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Mackay Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finding my current book habit hard to shake!
Just finished:
Tolkien and the Critics: essays on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; (ed Neil D Isaacs and Rose A Zimbardo)
Might write about that later. The book was dirty&#8230; some of the stains looked as though they were older than my big sister (and probably very nearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2188&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spectators of the Show</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/spectators-of-the-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV and Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abba songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depressing movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mamma mia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made the mistake of trying to save money on Sky TV&#8230; thought we might save a couple of pounds a month by dropping some of the channels we don&#8217;t watch, but instead added an extra £16 a month by subscribing to the Movie channels.
Might have resisted better if we hadn&#8217;t been looking in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2183&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/lost-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agoraphobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV and Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deafness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lost land of the volcano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wildlife documentaries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I shuffled furniture around, washed cat pee off plastic storage boxes, muttered crossly. Then got tired and watched Monk, followed by Charades (Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn). Wasn&#8217;t thrilled by either. Monk was about a deaf lipreader who was the villain (having stumbled across certain secrets by lipreading through a window). Even while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2180&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Trails In Slowly</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/autumn-trails-in-slowly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Photographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn photographs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn starting to arrive.
The two in the picture were there for ages, even though they passed me and saw my camera (on tripod) set up and trained on the trees. In the end I just took the picture with them in it. I suppose they add a little scale!
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		<title>Even the Cat Finds Me Annoying</title>
		<link>http://diddums.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/even-the-cat-finds-me-annoying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annoying behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Samson (one of my cats) was lying on my lap, and the TV was running long commercials I&#8217;d already seen a million-and-one times before. Because I was bored, I was repetitively patting his flank.
He got fed up with this, so he gently grabbed hold of my fingers, curling his paws inwards to hold them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diddums.wordpress.com&blog=2323269&post=2164&subd=diddums&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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