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	<title>Mrs. Normal Saves the World &#187; Confusion</title>
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		<title>sell your life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#8217;re all officially facing hard times, even the most committed anti-consumer finds herself wondering how she&#8217;s going to keep her children in life&#8217;s essentials: mobile game machines and size 12 football boots. Pity the ex-government advisers and council chiefs, who have an extra £250,000 a year to find &#8211; it&#8217;s the first time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eating disorders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time of year, when we&#8217;ve all stored enough fat to see us through till April, the sensible and enjoyable course would be to&#160;&#160;till it warms up a bit. (Actually, I think I may be hibernating already. Read this: &#8216;With true hibernation, the animal appears dead. There is no movement, and it takes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the upside of downsizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the media clamour about postal strikes and the threat to Christmas (Jeez! I'm still trying to get past Hallowe'en!) I noticed that the Director of Network Development at the PO is collaborating with various other heavies to try to keep&#160;&#160;- including post offices - going. So the Post Office is trying to modernise and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>computers suck</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/126</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So computers are everywhere. In our watches, our cookers, our cars, and, I suspect, in quite a few people at my office. Have you ever thought about how much energy they use? When you sit at your office laptop, innocently twittering about the difficulties of&#160;&#160;or doing furtive searches for&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;it all seems to work on air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>crunchy vegetables</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/114</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How bad will it get? For the first time since the war, (get used to this phrase now), sales of&#160;&#160;have overtaken those of flower seeds. Gardeners are not, on the whole, susceptible either to panic, or to Dame Fashion’s fickle foibles. When they change direction, it’s like the Queen Mary. It&#8217;s not done on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>choc shock</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/106</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Fiona McCarthy,&#160;&#160;Deyan Sudjic’s book &#8216;The Language of Things&#8217;, quoted William Morris&#8217;s comment: &#8220;I have never been in any rich man&#8217;s house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made outside of it of nine-tenths of all that it held.&#8221; It&#8217;s amazing how many people are suddenly discovering that shopping doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unshopping</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/64</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking the other day to a woman who buys for a&#160;&#160;about the dilemma of how to discourage people from wanton and irresponsible consumerism, whilst still extracting large sums of money from them, in exchange for stuff. She pointed eagerly to a display of butterflies cut out of old maps, in a shiny glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>save energy &#8211; drive to the shops</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/52</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many obvious reasons not to buy from supermarkets. Apart from the aesthetics, the lighting, the other people, and above all, the liminal awareness of your life draining away as you attempt to decide between thirty kinds of butter, there are thefood mile statistics. 25% of all HGV miles go on food transport. Which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>can battery chicken save the planet?</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/45</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we can all agree on the new enemy. Cows. Livestock generates 65 per cent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has three hundred times the GWP (Global Warming Potential – you knew that, right? Not to be confused with GDP or GNP or &#160;&#160;of CO2. Then there&#8217;s the 37 per cent of all human-induced methane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>upsetting offsetting</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/43</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody wants to hear the&#160;&#160;Or at least, nobody wants to act on them. It may be true that air travel adds only 0.023% to total greenhouse gas every year, but there’s another statistic that’s much more relevant here. For any individual person, any Mrs Normal, giving up air travel is the single biggest contribution we [...]]]></description>
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