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	<title>Redemption Blues</title>
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	<description>Abstract: Autobiography or confessional? The title is not plagiarised from the literary offering by a certain Mr. Tim Griggs, but that of a short story that has been languishing in my archives for over ten years, an ironic comment on the requirement in modern Western society for a female to be attached and the difficulties in attaining this state of “bliss”.</description>
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		<title>Britblog Roundup 280</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 280th “cucumber sandwich” edition of the Britblog Roundup (its somewhat peculiar title a homage to the term used by many of our Continental neighbours, “cucumber season” for the traditionally quiet spell when politicians head off for the yachts and luxury pads of their billionaire buddies).&#160; The quiet that has descended on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britblog Roundup 272</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 272nd Forrest Gump chocolate box edition of the Britblog Roundup, the weekly compilation of delights where you are never quite sure what you will find until you have removed the cellophane.
At examiner.com, Andrew Ian Dodge brings us up to date with the latest developments within the Direct Democracy project in US exports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britblog Roundup 263</title>
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Welcome to the 263rd short but sweet edition of the Britblog Roundup, which presents a varied assortment of submissions for your delectation in an exercise comparable to tipping the envelopes (whether brightly coloured or just plain brown) and packages from a postbag onto the table without their having passed through the sorting office first.&#160; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When an architect is so swept away by the splendour of his own vision and the grandeur of his plans, so utterly convinced of his own genius the needs of the users might seem to him nothing more than the petty gripes of lesser mortals whose imaginations are enslaved by their addiction to trivial comforts.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britblog Roundup 247</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the pre-hibernation edition of the Britblog Roundup where blogging activity appears to have succumbed to seasonal sluggishness in the absence of major scandals.
&#160;Politics
Writing at Pajamas Media, Andrew Ian Dodge weighs up the Tory leader&#8217;s prospects of success at next year&#8217;s election in David Cameron Likely Britain&#8217;s Next PM, But He May Yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearth and Homeland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many respects, ex-patriate exile resembles a form of self-delusion.&#160; For many years, I would not entertain the thought of buying rather than renting, as to commit myself to a mortgage would be tantamount to acknowledging that my stay was anything other than temporary.&#160; Some places lend themselves to cocooning yourself in denial more easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McLaughlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[15th August 2009]
We were all feeling despondent at the news of Wayne&#8217;s suicide.&#160; Such a gentle man, the only hint of violence directed against himself at the end.&#160; Gathered in the living room, Mattie attempted to relieve the tension by distracting us with anecdotes.&#160; Amongst his numerous past jobs, he spent a long stint working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonbeam Brothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[13th August 2009]
At the cottage, the approach of the weekend is betrayed by two tell-tale signs: the level of the loch and the sprouting of tents on the opposite shore like noxious fungi.&#160; The former attributable to anticipated peaks in electricity consumption, as the water drives the turbines in the power station and is artificially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toady</title>
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On the slopes of Creag an Lochain (at conk-out point) we came across this attractive amphibian
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We spotted this slightly less colourful cousin by the path leading across Rannoch Moor to Glencoe
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But in terms of sheer immensity, what could beat the Rannoch Frog Stone?
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		<title>In Memoriam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the urgency with which my son passed on the message to contact him immediately, I knew my brother’s news could only be bad.&#160; Death swooping down from a clear sky without so much as a wingbeat to alert its unsuspecting prey.&#160; The unmistakeable tremble in the voice.&#160; We had just finished a three-course late [...]]]></description>
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