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		<title>Weddings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s official. We’re engaged. After eight and a half years, Sergei and I will be making it official in 10.5 weeks. I can’t wait! After weeks of investigating, phoning, emailing, tentatively booking and changing my mind-ing, we finally have the skeleton of the day planned. Ceremony location. CHECK. Celebrant. CHECK. Reception. CHECK. At least we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Facebook Dilemma.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t believe it. I really don’t believe it. For years, I have been telling myself that there really is no need to entertain the possibility of getting a Facebook account. Or MySpace. Or anything or that nature whatsoever. Then came maternity leave, and an email one day from a friend asking me to look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paid Maternity Leave – Don’t Knock It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just read an article which has frankly disgusted me. It would appear that in France, women are entitled to 16 weeks paid maternity leave. This is not what disgusts me of course. I am thrilled that there are women in this world who are able to have access to a “benefit” of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Fatty – Dawn French Opens Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased when at Christmastime, as requested, my darling man gave me Dear Fatty, Dawn French’s autobiography. The fact that it took me only two weeks to finish reading this marvelous book, despite having a seven month old occupying most of my time, should speak volumes for its inability to allow me to put it down!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noime.net/dear-fatty/</link>
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		<title>Our Poison Of Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergei and I have a little obsession. DVDs. Think of it as a type of alternative investment. We tend to avoid “normal” television most of the time, and would certainly never consider forking out ridiculous amounts of money for Foxtel or a similarly ridiculously priced Pay TV option. We did succumb briefly, when we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You've already got a pretty fair idea overall of Christmas 2008, particularly about the toy shop that is now our home. Yes, our little angel has been spoilt rotten, but it was her first Christmas so I think that's entirely acceptable. ...]]></description>
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		<title>She’s not spoilt. Really. Well, maybe just a bit.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. It’s almost New Year’s Eve and I’m just writing about our daughter’s first Christmas experience now. The reason? Well, it has taken me several days to unwrap and unpack all of her presents. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we did it. We made it six months. Yesterday, Alexandra turned six months old. Ok, I know, it’s a bit OTT to be recognising half birthdays, but as this is her first, I’m going to anyway. It’s not like I threw her a party or anything… I didn’t even buy her presents. She did spend a decent chunk of time in her brand new Fisher Price “Take Along Hop ‘n’ Pop” activity centre, complete with lights/music/rattles etc, but that was technically an early Christmas present from her Daddy so it doesn’t count. OK???]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Idol – Maker or Breaker?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow… Marcia Hines and Richard E. Grant go head to head. It seems that Richard has spoken out against Australian Idol, much to Marcia’s distaste. This is a tricky one. You see, I have always liked both of these people. Indeed I found Marcia Hines the only bearable part of Australian Idol, far better (and in a far better position career wise) to make appropriate comments and judgments on true music ability. Unfortunately, in this instance I must disagree with her. As far as I’m concerned, Richard E. Grant hit the nail on the head, and his words should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks Idol will make them.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noime.net/australian-idol/</link>
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		<title>Collins English Dictionary – has the world gone mad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our language is changing every day, with a multitude of new “words” becoming part of popular speech on a daily basis. Now, I am exposed to popular culture just as regularly as the next person, and I must admit that some of these new “words” have found their way into my own speech. I do not, however, even try to kid myself that they might actually be legitimate vocabulary, to be acknowledged in any proper, scholarly form. As far as I am concerned, they are merely a means of lazily expressing oneself when one cannot be bothered to construct a proper sentence to convey one’s feelings. In particular, I refer to the recent addition of “meh”, a sound made popular by The Simpsons and now regularly used throughout a large portion of the English speaking world, to the Collins English Dictionary.]]></description>
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