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	<title>Mrs. Normal Saves the World &#187; Shock</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>is it just me?</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/146</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[     

  
   

 Last week - 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 - Dolly announced she was saving up for &#160;&#160;from Nike. In my innocence, I assumed this meant something moulded to the shape [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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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
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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
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		<title>good science</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/130</link>
		<comments>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/130#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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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
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		<title>Money in Mind</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/120</link>
		<comments>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/120#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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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 - because I can add up all the money I’ve never spent - 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>
		<comments>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/116#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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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
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		<title>pass the water</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/55</link>
		<comments>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Water tables are falling everywhere, and water shortages are getting worse, very fast.
And before you hit me with the weather last week in Abergavenny, I’m talking about other parts of the world. Not just Australia, whose drought has destroyed&#160;&#160;not to mention all those dead kangaroos, but
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		<title>dying is easy (comedy is hard)</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/59</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have thought that the one good thing about being dead was that you weren’t ruining the planet any more.
Hah. How wrong can you be?
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		<title>sustainability and debt</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/63</link>
		<comments>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What does ‘sustainable’ mean? It means something you can keep going indefinitely. Money or resources in, equals money or resources out. People who didn’t manage this traditionally ended up in the Debtor’s Prison, or&#160;&#160;or both.  The penalties for outliving your means were harsh and immediate, and people were, mostly, very scared of doing so.
So, [...]]]></description>
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