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		<title>&#8220;Time Sure Does Fly&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so another Christmas Day flashes by &#8211; and they sure do flash past when you reach the age of 82, as I did a few days ago&#8230; I don&#8217;t usually wax lyrical or philosophical, but I thought &#8211; what the heck..! &#8211; at my age, I&#8217;m entitled to a little nostalgia. So when, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=776&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hang In There&#8230;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 10:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again &#8211; A Hung Parliament&#8230; Mind you, there&#8217;s a difference.   When we had Hung Parliaments in the past they were visited upon &#8216;great&#8217; men &#8211; such as Herbert Asquith, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold Wilson. Today, and for the last month, we have had, strutting around the UK constituencies, political pygmies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=755&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Been A Long Time&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just hadn&#8217;t realised that I had not done any blogging since August, last year!  It&#8217;s this Ancestry caper.  As I have already explained , a relative &#8211; who I had no idea existed at the time &#8211; wrote to me with a family query.  That&#8217;s what started it all, and I seem to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=748&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Family History Thing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I wrote anything.  It&#8217;s this family history thing.  You start off nonchalantly with a shrug of the shoulders and a &#8220;So what?&#8221; and before you know it you&#8217;re immersed in dates and times and statistics so magnetic that you find yourself wallowing in a quagmire of history you were never quite aware existed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=727&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Well, It Had To Come, Didn&#8217;t It&#8230;?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it did, didn&#8217;t it?  Ever since Tony Blair resigned from New Labour &#8211; having been constantly nudged by Gordon Brown &#8211; the party has been in a state of flux and it was inevitable that some kind of collapse was on the cards.  &#8221;New&#8221; Labour was Tony&#8217;s creation, not a bad one considering that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=717&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Here Comes Summer&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Summertime, and the living is easy&#8230;&#8221;   So go the words of one of my favourite Gershwin melodies.    It was only ten days ago that I was writing about the  British winter and its upstart sudden snowfalls that  that brought about the decision to close all our schools and most of our offices.    And allowed families to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=708&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Told You So&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jimpedley.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/i-told-you-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I did, didn&#8217;t I?  I told you the world was in a right old mess because of puny little politicians. and I asked where were all the &#8220;great&#8221; men ? I didn&#8217;t think the puny politicians would become so graphically exposed as within  the &#8220;Mother of Parliaments&#8221; of my own Merrie England&#8230;! Take a look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=695&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What&#8217;s Been Happening&#8230;?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jimpedley.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/whats-been-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 11:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back. ..    I have just risen to the surface of a maelstrom of names and dates and statistics that have been whirling and swirling me around on a giddying roundabout of history-chasing in the effort to find out who I am, and where I came from &#8211; literally!  For the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve been caught up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=685&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pest of The Planet&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was watching a TV feature about orang-utans.  It concerned the efforts of some lady (bless her) to organise a Forestry School for baby orang-utans that had been orphaned by the prevailing practice of de-afforestation by the usual capitalists out to make bigger bucks&#8230; It appears that &#8220;The Old Man of The Forest&#8221; is getting in the way as profit-hungry developers fell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=634&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow More For The Time Being&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jimpedley.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/snow-more-for-the-time-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;So here&#8217;s the flip side of being caught out by unusual wintry conditions - the kids loved it; loved it the way I loved it when I was a youngster seventy years ago&#8230;  And so did parents who couldn&#8217;t get to work &#8211; unless they were so desperate to keep their jobs that they hoofed it for miles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpedley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2382268&amp;post=615&amp;subd=jimpedley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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