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		<title>The final curtain?</title>
		<link>http://oldgreypoet.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/the-final-curtain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved on to a new blog&#8211;and no cheese&#8211;and you&#8217;ll need to click on over there to keep up with our doings.
I&#8217;ll leave the archives here&#8211;all ten years of them&#8211;and it may be that I shall switch back here at some point in the future&#8230; journal of a writing man is too good a title [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5461&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good stout stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday July 4, 2008
So then.  This is it for &#8216;journal of a writing man&#8217;.  After ten years I still think it was a pretty good title, but I confess that the combined weight of 3,408 posts is a bit of a burden.  The new journal&#8211;&#8217;and no cheese&#8216;&#8211;is sitting there all empty, drawing breath and getting ready to sing.
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		<title>Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday July 3, 2008
When I worked on my cash portfolio project a little while back I lodged a fair proportion of them into National Savings Premium Bonds.  This is a Treasury-backed savings scheme where you invest your cash and, rather than being paid out piecemeal, the interest is used to fund a monthly prize draw, with cash prizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5459&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who knows?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday July 2, 2008
Yesterday was not a good day.  Nothing went wrong, but a series of minor irritations came our way, including three phone calls right in the middle of my afternoon nap.  I have noticed that while the phone will often stay silent all day it often as not rings just as I&#8217;m nodding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5456&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing quite like it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday July 1, 2008
There.  That&#8217;s June done, the house is under offer (SOLD, to the optimists among us) and all the main paperwork is not just done it&#8217;s double-done, filed and delivered.
The drive over to Minehead today, with a stop-off in Williton on the way, was rather heavy.  Graham was tired from his working weekend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5454&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We shall see how it pans out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday June 30, 2008
Late yesterday evening I pushed my chair back from the desk, announced to the world that my brain hurt, and plodded off downstairs to cook my [late] dinner.  The filing is done.  The forms are all filled in.  The letter to the solicitor is done.  All that&#8217;s needed before we motor the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5452&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving on</title>
		<link>http://oldgreypoet.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/moving-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday June 29, 2008
Graham is working a longer weekend than usual &#8216;to get the season going&#8217;.  Yup.  The &#8217;season&#8217; has started, with the arrival of the first batch of genuine holiday makers in place of the more usual special eventers.  The first two weeks tend to be mostly old folks, with special needs people coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5450&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t move so fast</title>
		<link>http://oldgreypoet.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/i-dont-move-so-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday June 28, 2008
Yesterday fizzled along softly after the excitement of the SOLD sign. I leafed through the five-part stack of forms to be sure I have all the information I need to process them tomorrow, and put them on one side ready to get them done and dusted this morning when I&#8217;ve finished here.
Today [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5448&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now the whole world knows</title>
		<link>http://oldgreypoet.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/now-the-whole-world-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home from dropping Graham off at the caravan, to find a massive wad of papers waiting for me from the solicitor&#8211;forms to be read and ticked off.  It&#8217;ll take me all day tomorrow to fill that lot in.  Just my luck for them to arrive the day Graham takes himself off.  Now there&#8217;s no way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5445&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a bad day&#8217;s work, really</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday June 27, 2008
I was in the shower when the phone rang.  Didn&#8217;t hear it so I was taken off my guard when Graham came along to tell me about it.
&#8220;Seems we&#8217;ve sold the house,&#8221; he said, looking a little shaky.
&#8220;Oh, really?&#8221;  I said.  &#8220;How much for, to whom, and by which of the two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldgreypoet.wordpress.com&blog=681941&post=5439&subd=oldgreypoet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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