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		<title>School&#8217;s out</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/schools-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woo Hoo!
School&#8217;s Out for Summer!
It isn&#8217;t of course, I still have my day job to go to,  but I have just finished an assignment from hell: 4000 words on a subject so vague that they served waffles in the coffee-breaks.  It is one of those topics which should be impossible to fail (ha!) and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X marks the spot</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/x-marks-the-spot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do like voting, and today I made a point of going into the village hall and putting my X on the spot.  I have a clear memory of accompanying my Ma to another village hall several decades ago and watching her vote in a general election when I was knee-high to an opinion.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Privilege meme</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/the-privilege-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked this up from the Singing Librarian, and decided that it was an interesting quiz to do.  Charlotte and Z have done it too.
It was devised by PhD students at Indiana State University - Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, and Stacy Ploskonka. If you participate, they ask that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The infinit&#8217;th monkey</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/the-infinitth-monkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aphra Behn</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[de vere]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why do people get so aeriated about the question of who wrote Shakespeare? I&#8217;ve been listening to the Shakespeare-on-ipod podcasts (website / iTunes) and finding them increasingly unsettling.  Which is, surely, rather odd?  What does it matter who wrote the plays?  What matters is the plays themselves.  You&#8217;d think.
It does matter, though.  The traditional version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily&#8217;s EcoJustice Challenge - are you up for it?</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/emilys-ecojustice-challenge-are-you-up-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tumbled across Emily’s EcoJustice Challenge when reading Charlotte&#8217;s blog. Please read Emily&#8217;s whole post, in the meantime, I&#8217;m cutting to the chase and quoting verbatim.
So, here is how this challenge will work. The first step is for anyone who wants to participate to pass the link onto at least five other people (or even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much missed</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/much-missed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aphra Behn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[eclectic shocks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Humph]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Humphrey Lyttleton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[I'm sorry I haven't a clue]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/?p=966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About 6 months ago I signed up to the I&#8217;m Sorry I Haven&#8217;t a Clue newsletter, planning to attend a recording next time Humph and the crew stopped off a motorway with a 6 in it.  Then last week I got an email saying that the next season of ISIHAC had been postponed because Humph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing art</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/choosing-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the interesting experience of selecting paintings for an exhibition the other day.  I work for a Great Big Company and the local council contacted various Groups in the Community to ask for volunteers to pick paintings for a Peoples&#8217; Choice exhibition.  (It&#8217;s Blairite, but is it Art?)  So I said &#8220;that&#8217;ll be me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just going outside</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/i-may-be-some-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what world does someone who dies of illness or in an accident leave their job &#8220;voluntarily&#8221;?  Suicides yes, if you push the logic that far.  But if I choke on a carrot in the canteen I haven&#8217;t left this vale of tears of my own free will, now have I?
However, I&#8217;d be classed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs thought when you&#8217;ve got jargon</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/who-needs-thought-when-youve-got-jargon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine who knows my weakness for jargon and my aspirations to critical thinking sent me a couple of texts the other day which he&#8217;d garnered from his work.
Purpose 
The WhizzyDooDad is designed to provide customers with a variety of resources that, when used as part of a learning program that incorporates learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quacktitioners III - a little bit of &#8216;me&#8217; time</title>
		<link>http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/quacktitioners-iii-a-little-bit-of-me-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear, this isn&#8217;t going to be popular.  And the reason it isn&#8217;t going to be popular is because I&#8217;m suggesting that women go to alternative practitioners for the same reason that men go to sex workers - for rest and relaxation or, as the women&#8217;s magazines call it, &#8220;a little bit of &#8216;me&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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