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	<description>Look Upon My Works Ye Mighty and Despair</description>
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		<title>Back in the saddle&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So that&#8217;s it then. Brain recovery complete. Barring the scar &#8211; which I&#8217;ll bear forever as a reminder of my little brush with mortality &#8211; I am fully functional member of the community again. I was lucky. In the hospital &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/back-in-the-saddle.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post Brain Surgery Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve averred elsewhere, no two brain operations are exactly alike. I wouldn&#8217;t take anything written here as anything more than just some personal reflections. As the pile of Macmillan Trust pamphlets on my bedside table attests, meningioma is the &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/post-brain-surgery-recovery.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meningioma operation. And beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to readers: I am no expert in this stuff. Nothing in this blog should be taken as medical or psychological advice. In fact, I&#8217;m writing it in what is still realistically a post-operation haze, so my opinions are probably &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/meningioma-operation-and-beyond.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In which I discover I have a brain tumor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my brush with mentalism, it&#8217;s rapidly turned into a running joke about the house &#8211; which is just the way I like it. Everything works just as it ever did. I&#8217;m still forgetful, bumbling but generally healthy and aside &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/in-which-i-discover-i-have-a-brain-tumor.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Having a seizure</title>
		<link>http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/having-a-seizure.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night. It&#8217;s bedtime. Tracy&#8217;s already gone up but, despite being tired, I fancy farting around on the internets a while longer. A bit of Facebook&#8230; tinkering with the band website&#8230; and then noticing that somehow the clock has skipped &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/having-a-seizure.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drowning in Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you ask people how they&#8217;d choose to die, you might get a chortling response that they might like to drown in lager. Well, never say that I&#8217;m not prepared to go through the mill for you, gentle reader, for &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/drowning-in-beer.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How many biscuits is too many biscuits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that drew me to Bronco was the offer of free biscuits. As stupid as that might sound, it was a little signal that this was my kind of place. I&#8217;ve had job offers from places where &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/how-many-biscuits-is-too-many-biscuits.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Received Presents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife loves a show. Anything with rows of massed dancers, costumes, tights and lights and she&#8217;s fair bouncing in her seat with excitement. Luckily, a secret side of me quite likes that shit too, so it&#8217;s generally a safe &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/worst-received-presents.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shutting My LinkedIn Profile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done a lot of thinking about my relationship with social media over the last few months. Perhaps my mind has been giving me subtle approbation when I&#8217;ve found myself checking my Facebook on my phone while cuddling my son &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/quitting-linkedin.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Trust cuts: &#8220;Gross cultural vandalism?&#8221; Hardly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The axing of the &#8216;free&#8217; books scheme for kids, operated by the Book Trust and paid for by us &#8211; via taxation &#8211; has been met with the usual gruesome howls of protest from the expected sectors. It is, according &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/book-trust-cuts-gross-cultural-vandalism-hardly.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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