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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I go out on Sundays with my cycling club, St Ives CC, I frequently sit with cycling companions at the cake stop listening to all kinds of banter, usually about the world of racing and cycling kit. If you are part of that world, you will find this video clip very funny and, maybe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frankburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14876097&amp;post=3262&amp;subd=frankburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know that books feature prominently in my life, so (like last year) I&#8217;ve signed up with World Book Night so that I can share that passion and help spread a love of reading. I&#8217;m hoping to be one of 20,000 people chosen to give away 24 copies of my chosen book: Touching the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frankburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14876097&amp;post=3251&amp;subd=frankburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London belongs to me: Norman Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this novel with a certain foreboding: 736 pages of Penguin Classic print and no guarantee that the journey was going to be worth it. Written during the last war, it covers the very narrow period of 1938-40, encapsulating the months leading up to war and the first 12 months of the reality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frankburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14876097&amp;post=3190&amp;subd=frankburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Outdoors Show: ExCel Exhibition Centre, London</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you ever venture to one of the country&#8217;s mega-exhibition centres, you need to be prepared &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; The newly extended ExCel Exhibition Centre (in the docklands of London) is over 100,000 sq metres in size. If you can&#8217;t begin to imagine the enormity of that, try to picture 14 football pitches all located under one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frankburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14876097&amp;post=3211&amp;subd=frankburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Shangri-La: Mitchell Zuckoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening chapters almost convinced me that I was reading one of those annoying &#8216;books of the film&#8217;. The structure of the early narrative, the gradual introduction of all the main characters, the film-script style of the writing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I was nearly convinced that this story had started life as a film. But I was wrong. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frankburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14876097&amp;post=3181&amp;subd=frankburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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