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		<title>Of words and commas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled across a piece by Gertrude Stein on commas.  It&#8217;s a blocky bit of text on screen but bear with it and hear its measure in your head as it is worth listening to in even the complex and unpunctuated parts: &#8221; And what does a comma do, a comma does nothing but make easy a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=72&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commuterland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its back to the daily commute in its worst incarnation.  A six hours round trip that if my new role gets made permanent I shall be making daily.  So much for sanity.    Train times are inconveniently spaced so that a frenetic dash from the office generally means arriving at Euston just in time to miss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=67&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh what a wonderful morning!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its sunny and birds are probably singing somewhere and its truly glorious.  The kind of day really where I would rather be oh, in Williamstown, MA drinking ice coffee on the terrace with the river rushing below, or Rome sitting in the shade in my favorite bar with a cappuccino.  Or any other of the heart achingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=65&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compulsory citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There seem to be a lot of &#8220;issues&#8221; around at the moment that roughly fall under the idea of citizenship.   The hands that are shooting up at the front probably want to point out that we are subjects, not citizens.  I think thats a bit of a disingenous point these days.  We have a constitutional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=63&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vanishing Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterdays papers were covered in a picture of two very different young men.  An overblown yap of a public schoolboy taunted by an overblown bulldog wielding ASBO.  But its the space in the middle that really interests me.  Thats right, the space.  The absence in public debate of the majority of the people in the UK whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=61&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books Glorious Books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire_M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its finally happened.  After almost fourteen months of dragging through piled up cardboard boxes every time I wanted one of my treasured tomes my new bookshelves are now finished and the said books ensconced.  Or at least over half of them.  Once we&#8217;ve tackled the dining room which currently resembles a lumberyard come chinese takeaway the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=60&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A measure of success</title>
		<link>http://clairemillington.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/a-meaaure-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire_M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success is a curious thing. Primarily its something you are, not something you have or do, a verb that takes the ‘etre’ form. Locally it just means that you are supporting yourself financially in a job that’s not too ambitious. To mention for example, that you were working for a blue chip in a capital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=59&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Accidental Librarian</title>
		<link>http://clairemillington.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/an-accidental-librarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire_M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well Christmas has been and gone and taken the New Year in its wake.  I slugged down a toast as I watched the London celebrations from the comfort of my sofa, wondered how high heels and hard pavements could ever have seemed a natural combination and cosied up with my OH.  Looking at the big wide year ahead I realise that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=58&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Driving home for Christmas.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire_M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somethings about this small town are really really great.  No, I mean despite how I file these posts sometimes I actually like living here.  Home Town Christmas is great.*  No long travel home for the mad dash round to fit in everyone before you scramble onto the an overcrowded and overbeered train or plane back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=57&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not so clubbable Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of nights ago I found myself out of my milieu.  Or at least I hope I did.  Sharing the intimate space of strangers I would not invite into my living room was a salient reminder of why I do not go clubbing.  Especially not at what passes for a club locally. Somehow the spirit of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clairemillington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233043&amp;post=56&amp;subd=clairemillington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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