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	<title>Mrs. Normal Saves the World</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>a snake in the vacuum cleaner</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/95</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Iris, having been persuaded to join an anti-biofuels protest, found herself witnessing her own cake being thrown at the company&#8217;s CEO. In the ensuing melee, a backpack was left in her electric car, which turned out to contain a live snake. She hid it, for warmth and safety, in the family airing cupboard, until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cleaned out</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/73</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 06.54 in the morning. I’m barely awake, but the minute my eyes unstick, I throw aside the&#160;&#160;and bound straight from the bedroom to the utility room, where if I’m really fast, I’ve a chance of getting to the washing machine before Mr Fixit has a chance put it on at 50 degrees, full cycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malcolm at work</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/90</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Malcolm, Iris&#8217; husband, is an engineer specialising in ergonomic design. He recently left a large organisation to start up on his own - or rather, with a partner in the shape of his old friend, Colin. When Iris has her accident, Malcolm was on the point of telling her that things were not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>save energy - 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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>

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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 the
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		<title>bursting bubbles</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/56</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Mum, can I have&#160;&#160;
‘There’s none left.’
This is true, but only because, in the course of preparing supper, I have furtively poured into my own glass the last of the bottle Mr Fixit bought for a rare invasion by outsiders a week ago. It isn’t clear whether he essayed this controversial act as a principled demonstration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pass the water</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/55</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Shock]]></category>

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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>the first supper</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/66</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Iris nearly killed a cyclist, Soren, who then turned up in the next bed to hers in hospital. In return for Soren&#8217;s forgiveness, Iris found herself agreeing to live - and inflict on her family - an ethical life from now on. She has just had her first trip to
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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, we can all agree on the new enemy.
Cows.
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		<title>sibling rivalry</title>
		<link>http://mrsnormal.com/archives/54</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheila</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[‘I need that recipe for&#160;&#160;again.’ It’s my sister&#160;&#160;on the phone.
‘Why – is that gorgeous&#160;&#160;daughter of yours in residence?’
‘No, it’s for me. She persuaded us that now we aren’t flying any more, it’s ridiculous
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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Shock]]></category>

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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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