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           <title>Will Facebook leave us blank?</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  YOUR earliest memory is usually a tactile one. The first fraction of life you keep and carry into adulthood seems to stick from when you are about three.
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           <title>Make your life unforgettable</title>
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  IN OFFICES across the land a standard 9am conversation takes place.
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           <title>He stared at me. I stared back</title>
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  IT IS the English way never to show too much interest in anything.
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           <title>Keep off this touchy subject</title>
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  THERE are three things you should never talk about at dinner parties - religion, sex and politics.
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           <title>Kissing! That's what matters</title>
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  I CALCULATE that, so far, I have sat through at least 60 exams.
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           <title>Shocked by woolly totem poles</title>
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  I saw a spectacle that shocked me so much this weekend I nearly crashed the car.
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           <title>I'll meat you half way</title>
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           <title>Superkid keeps going</title>
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  I CALL him Superkid. My kidney. He is super because he does the job of two.
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           <title>Why daffodils make me cringe</title>
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  DAFFODILS make me cringe. They are garish, hideously yellow and hopelessly ungainly. And yet, this year, like last year, they are everywhere. South Lakeland District Council has lined the Kendal
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           <title>Turn out was just Heaven</title>
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  AS A kid I was part of a congregation of adults who believed in a God.
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           <title>A room full of real poets</title>
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  SOMEWHERE deep in my mind I had assumed poets were a bit like leprechauns... nice but essentially fictional.
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           <title>I've got Fleeting Bambi syndrome</title>
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  THERE are two bright-eyed crows living above my attic room. Each morning I hear them chattering away in an uncannily human manner. They are like a pair of old men complaining at a bus stop.
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           <title>Hugo cured my fear of needles</title>
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  THEY say you should do one thing every day that scares you.
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           <title>Leave me out of this romantic madness</title>
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  VALENTINE’S Day is coming. Don’t worry, it’s not until Tuesday.
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           <title>Don't mention the N word</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  I’M NOT scared by heights, I don’t mind the dark, and I can cope with ghosts, small spaces, spiders or snakes.
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           <title>A different way of seeing the landscape</title>
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  On our summer holidays my dad would take us on walks and shoot photo after photo of the Welsh coastline.
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           <title>Sexism comes in many forms</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  AS A teenager I didn’t get feminism. To me feminists were just a bunch of dungaree wearing, bra-burning twiners.
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           <title>Swim to clear the decks</title>
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  ON MOST mornings I can be heard stumbling around my second floor flat like the mad woman in the attic.
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           <title>A book to exceed expectations</title>
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  A good friend recommended that I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I had some doubts.
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           <title>Don't give up on giving up</title>
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  IT IS time to pick New Year’s resolutions. The cynics will give up giving up – again – but for everyone else this is a genuine opportunity to start afresh.
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