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	<description>There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.</description>
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		<title>WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now been at this blogging lark for five years and have just about run out of steam.  
I&#8217;ve flogged the nostalgia to death .. I&#8217;ve ridiculed the bloody &#8216;royals&#8217; whenever possible .. I&#8217;ve despaired at our dodgy government .. I&#8217;ve criticised the media, the arts and just about everything else .. I&#8217;ve ranted over religion .. I&#8217;ve tried to raise a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1416&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon&#8217;s &#8216;Gestapo&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it nice to see the European &#8216;human rights&#8217; legislation working as it should for a change, with judges at Strasbourg ruling that the police in this country are breaching the human rights of innocent people by storing their DNA on a database.
It would seem that hundreds of thousands of people who have no criminal convictions are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1402&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It ain&#8217;t just the young.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey has found that people in this country are getting more rude because of increasingly hectic lifestyles.
Well around here, in &#8216;bungalowland&#8217;, most of the miserable old sods lead anything but a &#8216;hectic lifestyle&#8217;, but are probably some of the rudest and inconsiderate buggers you could ever never wish to meet.
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		<title>&#8220;Fings is bad and times is &#8216;ard&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I visited a giant &#8216;Staples&#8217; superstore, and apart from the three or four staff chatting at the checkouts I was the only person to be seen within it&#8217;s walls. It was the same story when I later called in at &#8216;PC World&#8217;, and yesterday when I made one of my rare visits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1375&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first time I saw Paris.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually at this time of year I take a trip across The Channel to do a bit of pre-Christmas shopping in France, but this year I have decided to give it a miss due to the problems after the fire in the channel tunnel, the strikes and other industrial action at both British and French [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1343&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A licence to &#8230;?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It won&#8217;t be long before I reach my &#8220;three score years and ten&#8221;, so I don&#8217;t ponder too much on sitting in &#8216;God&#8217;s waiting room&#8217;, but this week I was reminded by the DVLA, of all people, that &#8220;time marches on&#8221;.
Yes, a form has been sent to me to renew my driving licence, as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1325&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sycophants &#8216;R&#8217; Us.</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/sycophants-r-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit pissed off at the moment as I never got an invitation to Charlie&#8217;s birthday bash, especially as, like so many other old pricks pensioners, I spent part of my gas bill money on sending him a little present and greetings card.    
Still I&#8217;ve cheered up a bit now that I&#8217;ve seen his birthday portrait. Bugger me ! .. he must have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1306&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lanky leeks are legal !</title>
		<link>http://oldgit.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/lanky-leeks-are-lawful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember many years ago shopping in markets in Spain and having a problem in identifying certain fruits and vegetables. Great big knobbly yellow, pink and green fruit turned out to be tomatoes and small bent rough green gourds were in fact cucumbers, but what I had no trouble with was the taste. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgit.wordpress.com&blog=345049&post=1284&subd=oldgit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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