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		<title>a promise of lilacs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely it&#8217;s April that should be &#8220;breeding lilacs out of the dead land&#8221;, not January? But here the buds are already beginning to show signs of breaking into life. Mind you, unless there&#8217;s some rain soon, I don&#8217;t quite know how much energy the trees will have for producing flowers, especially as I forgot to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8997&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>miaow, meow, miau, miaou&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you spell that word? Not that it really matters, but it seemed the right noise to be making since I just discovered I have an identity on the WorldCat website. This being the internet, I&#8217;m rather surprised that the site has nothing to do with cats. In fact it&#8217;s a searchable catalogue of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8980&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>city slicker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City heels slip on cobbles glossed by the fading traces of the morning&#8217;s frost<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8969&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>of love poetry and distractions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I complained, or at least commented, recently, about the temptations and distractions involved in dusting bookshelves. At the moment a similar temptation confronts me every time I clean the log stove and re-lay the fire. No, I&#8217;m not using books for fuel, but I do tend to start each fire off with a fir cone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8941&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dissecting a moon dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned the conversation that triggered my wanting to write this piece in the post of poetry, maths and cars. Although it&#8217;s still no more than a fragment, it seems to have reached that annoying stage where it&#8217;s settled and doesn&#8217;t want to be shifted, although I am not happy with it. The road stretches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8929&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>computer consumables</title>
		<link>http://dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/computer-consumables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s post touched on domesticity and cleaning, so I think this is as good a time as any to post this poem. Slattern   My laptop  is a messy eater. Each morning  I find tell-tale crisp crumbs              wedged  between its square white teeth  alongside  cracker fragments and  the improbably orange powder  of industrial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8914&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>not so dusty</title>
		<link>http://dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/not-so-dusty-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to start the new year with a clean house, but as I was away for several weeks from mid-December this year, that annual ritual went by the board. Ever adaptable, I&#8217;m now looking at the Chinese New Year &#8211; January 23rd &#8211; as a spur to domesticity, so, in tribute to the Water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8889&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>no going back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time before last when I upgraded to a new laptop, I was very careful to keep copies of all my old writing; so the other day when I went looking for an article written in 1999, I found several versions of it on my current computer. Sadly, none of them were compatible with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8868&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>books and friends</title>
		<link>http://dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/books-and-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really see the appeal of Twitter &#8211; perhaps because I don&#8217;t really understand how it works &#8211; but occasionally friends send me links to &#8216;trending topics&#8217;. Yesterday, I got a link to #whatsyourgeekconfession and found this at the top: I&#8217;m surprised that I don&#8217;t seem to have mentioned Dunbar&#8217;s number here on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8851&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>geological shift</title>
		<link>http://dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/geological-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not only the seasons that seem to have shifted here. At this time of year, we should have snow on the mountains; instead it looked more as if we had a volcano out there this morning.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dontconfusethenarrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1412133&amp;post=8842&amp;subd=dontconfusethenarrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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