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		<title>sticking two fingers up at 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to try and keep this post as positive as I can, given that this year has been a bit of a shitter wouldn&#8217;t you say? I think that is a fair statement. 
In every negative situation, if you look hard enough (and sometimes you don&#8217;t really have to look hard at all), you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4541&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>you know you are old when&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; your other half&#8217;s mother sends you a message on Facebook to let you know that your new iPhone has been delivered to her place of work and, rather than leaping up squealing like an excitable piglet to go and get it, you groan about having to get in the car to drive there.
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		<title>christmas part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the blasted phone is dead. Dead. I don&#8217;t have the extender thing that makes the memory card a length that won&#8217;t get lost in the lap top&#8217;s card drive with me so no photos. Not that they were interesting anyway, just a couple of shots of a bare flower bed and a wooden garden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4531&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>christmas part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so Christmas is over for another year. It&#8217;s been uneventful. There has been a fair bit of travelling. There&#8217;s been a good dose of ill health.
I&#8217;ve dusted off the work laptop to work from home today, tomorrow and Thursday &#8211; got The Handover to write.
Christmas Eve came around and I was pleased that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4528&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ho ho ho</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Merry Christmas to you
With much love,
Soupy, Polly, Lily, Kate &#38; Ziva (and The Mechanic)
Note: That&#8217;s not my rat, it&#8217;s Bug, a totally adorable rat. A bit about Bug here.
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		<title>t&#8217;was the night before christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many thousands of blogs will start with that line today? 
Anyway, the day hasn&#8217;t started off brilliantly &#8211; The Mechanic and I slept badly last night and I was actually awake staring at my digital alarm clock from 4.05am until I got up. TM has an upset tummy, I am a dreadful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4518&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in which i teach a vet how to do his job</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Polly was still unwell, and looked more &#8220;fluffed up&#8221; than she had previously. When rats are distressed, they adopt a hunched over posture and their fur becomes unkempt. Her breathing hasn&#8217;t improved much, despite continuing her on the Baytril for longer than prescribed and I suspected that it wasn&#8217;t a respiratory problem that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4516&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>don&#8217;t turn into a stupid rah-y cow &#8211; too late</title>
		<link>http://bluesoup.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/dont-turn-into-a-stupid-rah-y-cow-too-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not for me, but for The Mechanic&#8217;s Sister 1 maybe&#8230;
The Mechanic and I have tonight had a fight, one that ended with me snarling: &#8220;You can go to your fucking aunt&#8217;s for Christmas dinner because you&#8217;re not fucking coming with me.&#8221;
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		<title>rescue mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was hoping for a quiet evening last night. I went along to &#8216;Spoons for a glass of wine (one!) to bid farewell to a small number of work colleagues, and then headed over to Nandos with The Mechanic and my former PR Officer colleague and her husband.
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		<title>takeover</title>
		<link>http://bluesoup.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the rats have taken over my lounge, as well as my bedroom &#8211; and, of course, my heart.
See their new play pen, which covers a big chunk of my living room. They love it.
I love it too. It means I can have them out free ranging for hours without having to worry that one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluesoup.wordpress.com&blog=525235&post=4500&subd=bluesoup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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