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		<title>heavy medals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not under any illusion that the nation&#8217;s direst current need is a corrective for excessive Olympomania. Even the&#160;&#160;now refers to money being &#8216;shovelled&#8217; into the opening ceremony, and his item the other day was very unkindly edited to imply that said event was intended to give spectators a laugh at the expense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shame again, please</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the anti-materialist spirit of these pages, it occurred to me after a few seasonal crossed synapses that the recent festivities would be a lot more enjoyable if we could get rid of things, as well as acquiring them. And not just those generic presents that go straight into the emergencies drawer. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ground down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare item of good news arrived in the Normal/Fixit&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;this month, with the solution of the problem of what to do with all the compost piling up malodorously right outside the kitchen window. There are limits to how much compost a mostly paved city pocket hankie can actually absorb. The solution arrived in the form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is it just me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week &#8211; or three obsessions ago; it&#8217;s not just &#8216;a Wales&#8217; or &#8216;a Luxembourg&#8217; that function as units of measurement, you know &#8211; Dolly announced she was saving up for &#160;&#160;from Nike. In my innocence, I assumed this meant something moulded to the shape of your feet. Which might be useful, if, for instance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a little freedom</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/142</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN these lean times, anything you can get for nothing is worth hanging on to. Take speaking. Talk is cheap, but speech is free. Or so we’re told. One of the many excuses for self-congratulation in this country has always been our freedom to say whatever we like, so long as it’s not racist. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fighting chance</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/133</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was darning my right woolly glove today (luckily I&#8217;m left handed so it&#8217;s relatively simple; darning the left glove with my right hand can lead to very random results) and pondering the new world heavyweight boxing champion,&#160;&#160;a man who not only defeated someone who could eat him in a sandwich, but was able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>good science</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about the latest standoff between the NFU and the Soil Association, I was reminded of two kids in a playground.The NFU accused the SA of&#160;&#160; while the SA gently&#160;&#160;the NFU for its unhelpful attitudes in the face of looming disaster.I was at an event last week where the Soil Association, helpfully introduced as &#8216;GM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money in Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I’ve been feeling smug (surely not?) about never having had a gym membership or a&#160;&#160;Not just for the same reason disliking jewellery makes me smug &#8211; because I can add up all the money I’ve never spent &#8211; but because I’ve realised that gyms will soon be mere folk memory.  Or, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>debt and taxes</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/116</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite sure why such a fuss is being made about this 50% tax band. Everybody knows that&#160;&#160;pays no taxes at all. The cradle of democracy has a fiscal system so corrupt that it not only distinguishes between &#8216;evasion&#8217; and &#8216;avoidance&#8217; but positively encourages the former. Of the seventy tax havens round the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>poo power</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/91</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, they were the coming salvation; now they’re&#160;&#160; So what&#8217;s really going on with biofuels? (It would be so much easier to get you to read this if I substituted&#160;&#160;wherever the &#8216;b&#8217; word happens. Why not try it for yourself? You&#8217;ll have read the whole thing before you know it!) First, definitions. Two [...]]]></description>
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