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	<title>On my own.....</title>
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		<title>Saint Steve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time&#8230;. I was going to start The Church of Bob&#8230;. in this old chapel I wanted to buy in Granity. Granity is on the West coast of New Zealand&#8217;s South Island, its a whacky place with a coal mine, a crazy old village above it and some rare old characters. Granity&#8217;s claim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/12/20/saint-steve/</link>
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		<title>Saturday 3.00am&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah well one week until the *DAY* I am over it already! I used to love Christmas but its just not the same in New Zealand, no build up, nothing to get me in the spirit of the season, because its the wrong season!!! In May when I smell the first fires burning, and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/12/18/saturday-3-00am/</link>
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		<title>Polar Express&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to  England this week&#8230;.in fact now I would have been halfway thee&#8230;somewhere around San Francisco&#8230;. I had to settle for some wonderful snowy pics of Norfolk instead.. this guy is GOOD! My life for the past year or two feels like being on a very fast moving train, so fast that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/12/14/polar-express/</link>
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		<title>Balsamic Vinegar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article this morning in a food magazine, the author asked why New Zealand imports most of its Balsamic Vinegar&#8230;. :)  I had to write to the editor, this being something very close to my heart&#8230;. I don&#8217;t often write to Editors..unlike Mr Bent, but he&#8217;s another story&#8230;. Balsamic Vinegar is made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/12/11/balsamic-vinegar/</link>
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		<title>Burning Hope&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Candles burn for hope flames flickering in the breath of a nations prayers Yesterday was a very tough day for New Zealand&#8230;. 29 men were lost, 29 men are mourned by families friends loved ones and a whole nation&#8230;. Don&#8217;t let these lost lives be in vain&#8230;.. can we learn something from this? Life is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/11/25/burning-hope/</link>
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		<title>Fluffies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found these little Paradise Duck babies strolling around by the pond with the proud and loud parent ducks!!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/11/23/fluffies/</link>
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		<title>Haiku for Broken Hearts on Beaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[meeting at the beach gulls scream mournfully overhead keeners at the wake walking on wet stones riding the crest of a wave is our happiness lost souls together on the edge of the planet hanging on for life walking side by side tracking footprints in the sand of four toed creatures forest of tree roots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/11/23/haiku-for-love-lost-at-the-beach/</link>
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		<title>Breakfast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breakfast is usually my favourite meal of the day&#8230; whatever time I eat it&#8230;. eaten in the middle of the night can be wonderful&#8230;. and oh man, that first cup of tea&#8230; *NOTHING* is better than the first mouthful of tea in the mornings! So this is a recent breakfast.. homemade bread, given a wonderful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/04/14/breakfast/</link>
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		<title>I am not really a jam maker&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been wanting to make Chili Jam for ages&#8230;.. anyway, today I tried&#8230; and failed miserably! It would have been ok had I not burnt it&#8230;. but I always seem to do this with jam.. although I did make a good plum one a couple of months ago actually. Maybe it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/04/14/i-am-not-really-a-jam-maker/</link>
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		<title>Winter&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nights and early mornings are getting much cooler&#8230;. the Milky way has been lit up in all it&#8217;s glory this week&#8230; you see way more of it in the Southern hemisphere, but I kind of miss the Northern sky sometimes, and those old familiar stars. There hasn&#8217;t been much rain, but it suddenly became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.raggedpoet.com/2010/03/12/winter/</link>
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