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	<description>There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.</description>
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		<title>What ! No Trekkies ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why am I not surprised to read that the most popular choice of ‘Other Religion’ in the 2011 UK census was &#8220;Jedi Knight&#8221; ? I know that the USA has more than it&#8217;s fair share of religious nutters, but, if the figures in the census are to be believed, so do we, for it would seem [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7559&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maroon the Moaners !</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that I  sometimes often appear to be a miserable old git with my rants about all the things that piss me off, and they are many, but I don&#8217;t feel that I fall into the category of a &#8216;moaner&#8217; .. i.e .. &#8220;a person given to excessive complaints&#8220;, unlike many of my fellow citizens [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7535&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hey Dude ! It&#8217;s dashing DaVinci.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/hey-dude-its-dashing-davinci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember from previous posts that I am a fan of TV &#8217;historical&#8217; dramas, but due to the lack of such &#8216;history-lite&#8217; productions in recent weeks, I have once more resorted to watching that highly entertaining, load of &#8216;old cobblers&#8217; .. &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;, although I must confess that I am still struggling with the plot. However, by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7502&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One man&#8217;s terrorist is &#8230; &#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been watching the latest TV news coverage of the recent terrible events in the City of Boston and the ending of the hunt for the two terrorists, during which the people of that great city were described as &#8220;living in fear&#8221;, which is understandable: but, whilst my sympathies are with the victims of these [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7488&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insensitive &#8216;snaps&#8217; !</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having attended two family members&#8217; funerals in recent months, I have to say that I would have been very upset and angry if someone had taken photographs of my grieving relatives and friends when they were showing understandable emotion, and then published them for the world to see; so I wonder how the late Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s family feels [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7468&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Iron Lady&#8217; ? .. Yes  .. &#8216;Iron Duke&#8217; ? .. No !</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/iron-lady-yes-iron-duke-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that I was not a fan of Margaret Thatcher, and nor, judging by the comments in the press and on &#8216;twitter&#8217; etc, were a large proportion of the British people. However, I won&#8217;t spend time here by going over the same ground concerning her political career, for this has been more than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7443&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No nukes is good nukes !</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/no-nukes-is-good-nukes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, at the height of &#8217;The Cold War&#8217;, I served in a &#8216;Ground Controlled Interception Radar Station&#8217; on the south coast of England, and one of my duties was to act as the assistant to the chief controller, which mainly meant that I answered the telephone, or should I say, any one of a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7402&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What next ? Fish, Chips and Chili Peppers !</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/what-next-fish-chips-and-chili-peppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is here once again. That great religious festival of chocolate eggs, cuddly bunnies, fluffy chicks and hot cross buns: so at the risk of offending a member of some non-Christian faith who may have been watching me, I picked up a pack of those fruity little sticky buns on my recent visit to Sainsbury&#8217;s, and saw that &#8216;splashed&#8217; across [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=345049&#038;post=7368&#038;subd=oldgit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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