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		<title>&#8220;And when did you last open your bowels?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the doctors have confirmed that it was a stroke. My second in six years. Hey ho &#8211; life goes on. Thanks to this diagnosis (and shoulder surgery) the outmoded, overworked and underpaid wheels of the NHS turn; booking me for a gazillion scans, stroke-rehab and physio appointments. Suddenly there&#8217;s a big queue of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most important thing you will ever read</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been blogging for a few years now. Sometimes I can go a few weeks without publishing anything, but it&#8217;s no great worry. Life continues apace, and I know that inevitably something will happen to me or I&#8217;ll find something to rant about &#8230; and my blog will be there, ready and waiting. Like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to watch when you&#8217;re recuperating</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was discharged from hospital on Tuesday morning. I was only in for a day, which seems pretty good for a complete shoulder replacement. I am fighting against the urge to describe myself as &#8220;post-op&#8221; even though the use of such a tacky and obvious double-entendre is part of this blog&#8217;s mission statement. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We can rebuild him &#8211; we have the chocolate and flumps &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may note that it has been quiet &#8217;round here of late. Firstly, the results of that blogging competition came back. You know, the one I said I didn&#8217;t care about? Well, apparently I cared about it more than I realised &#8230; which is why I was gutted to only rank fourth place. I considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV chefs and their threat to the environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with a skyrocketing population of television chefs fighting over dwindling levels of material and airtime, the Wildlife and Forestry Commission (in association with Horse and Hound magazine) this week announced an aggressive culling programme designed to salvage what is left of the prime-time UK television ecosystem. &#8220;It is clear from the last few years&#8217; programme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well-behaved little chap, isn&#8217;t he?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last week it has turned cold in the UK. Well, cold for the UK, anyway. For any nation that is actually prepared for cold weather it is just &#8221;a bit chilly&#8221;. But for us, it&#8217;s cold enough that the weather once again becomes the number-one topic of conversation (knocking X-Factor into second place, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Funny-haha, not funny-peculiar&#8221; UK blog award 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been shortlisted for The Dog's Doodahs Funny Blog Competition! Obviously I wouldn't want you to vote for me if you really didn't want to ... but if you're a crucial undecided-voter then I'm happy to consider bribery or sexual favours if it'll help swing it my way. :)]]></description>
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		<title>Literature versus bandwagons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have dreamed of becoming a published writer. To write a great novel that will change lives, move people, push the boundaries of conventional story telling and (most importantly) make me staggeringly rich. On close investigation of what sort of books people read on the train, it seems clear that great epics or family sagas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly people in advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television advertising annoys me. A lot. It&#8217;s cheesy and fake, and it doesn&#8217;t take much of it to reduce me to an angry blob of Tourette&#8217;s and bile. As a consequence, I am forbidden from watching commercial television before the children have gone to bed. That family all huddled together on the sofa, watching their brand-new TV and smiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Granny&#8217;s Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The elite hardcore game players of the Oddbloke offices present a playthrough to a thirty-year-old educational game intended for primary school children.]]></description>
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		<title>Whilst we&#8217;re off the air &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Oddbloke is moving house, and for the next fortnight we are without Broadband. We&#8217;ve been reduced to the level of primitives. The tribe are huddling around a fire we&#8217;ve built in the living room, fighting over bits of meat stuck to bones of animals we hunted and killed in wildest Burton-on-Trent. Rather like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Attenborough versus Fireman Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1770</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On any given day you can watch the National Geographic or Discovery channels and see &#8220;survival of the fittest&#8221; acted-out in digitally-enhanced, high-definition, surround-sound glory. David Attenborough &#8211; who earns my respect for maintaining his title as &#8220;national treasure&#8221; despite dedicating his entire TV career to commentating on animals shagging &#8211; will narrate over stunning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing my deadpan sarcasm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare to alight from my train home each evening, I tend to grab an armful of discarded newspapers for my wife to use as bedding for her guinea pigs. It seems there is some point to &#8220;The Metro&#8221;, after all. I don&#8217;t need loads &#8211; just to walk up the carriage and grab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helpful hints when selling your slum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months ago, we decided we would move house. There were a myriad of reasons toward this decision, but the major one can be summarised thusly: our children are very annoying and we would like a second living room so that we don&#8217;t have to listen to them all day. Lesser reasons include a mythical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fistful of Serviettes (part three)</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1707</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part three. Click for part one or part two. I barely noticed the deep rumble of a muscle-car engine in the car park; this was a roadside diner, after all. And I didn&#8217;t look around when I heard the diner door open. But I was all ears when Linda screamed and dropped my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fistful of Serviettes (part two)</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1705</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two. If you haven&#8217;t yet, you might want to read part one otherwise it might not make sense. And Lordy, we wouldn&#8217;t want that. I knew that my brooding had become negative and cynical; my glass was half-empty and what was left was bile. But then, pulling an all-nighter to observe an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fistful of Serviettes (part one)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever been sat in a place so lifeless that you wished for a spontaneous gunfight? And then you&#8217;d break-out with the firepower and kick ass? This piece was first composed in my head whilst waiting for my fried-grease-and-chips in the Little Chef on the A14 (between J8 and J9, westbound) on a Friday evening. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonk-thwack-bonk-OUT!</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1360</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;m not a big fan of tennis on TV &#8230; apart from women&#8217;s tennis, which I would consider buying a 3D TV to watch. I don&#8217;t have anything against tennis in itself &#8211; I don&#8217;t think much about it one way or the other.  What I actually hate is all the hype and coverage around something which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a typical English trait to discuss the weather. UK readers will know that the last few days have been very hot and sunny (well, as far as we are concerned). As a consequence, my typical eight-layer wardrobe for the commute between Derby and Birmingham has been eschewed for shorts, T-shirt and sandals &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious philosophical debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re staggering home from the pub one night, slightly the worse for wear. You make a wrong turning and end up stumbling across a lonely common near a military airforce base. A bright-light comes from the sky and centres on you. You&#8217;re pulled up into an spaceship, whisked away to a foreign planet, and caged [...]]]></description>
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