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	<title>Queenie at Large &#187; olden days</title>
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	<description>Queenie of Collingwood, a lady of advanced years, lives in impoverished yet genteel circumstances. She dictates this blog to a neighbour in exchange for racing tips.</description>
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		<title>Queenie at Large &#187; olden days</title>
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		<title>Rubbish is in the eye of the Beholder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you see people searching through rubbish bins you probably have one of two reactions: pity or disgust. Save your reactions. You could be looking at me. 
I am a student of Neology, the science of going through what people have thrown out on the street. As a pioneer neologist, I have turned &#8220;field walking,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=124&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Milk for Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday I touched on a subject which remains vividly in the memory of many readers. The Free Milk for Schools scheme. 
I&#8217;m not the only one who suffers recurring nightmares of forgetting to shake the bottle before opening and copping a mouthful of warm, lumpy cream, but fortunately no one else endured the horror [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=94&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Popeye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m shocked. Not so much by the news of the entire population of the North American continent going down with food poisoning from eating  bagged spinach, but by the lack of respect shown to growing childen.
&#8221; Marina Zecevic said she made the mistake of serving creamed spinach to her kids the day the story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=93&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mysterious Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I had a lovely comment from that well-known commentator Anonymous who told me that there is a place left in the world where you get good fish and chips. I had to sit down and have a little glass of sweet sherry to celebrate.
And this place is the mysterious Anstruther on the East Neuk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=76&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sherry and vegemite</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/sherry-and-vegemite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I interrupt this blog to thank the kind young lady at Labyrinth of Learnings, who bought me a nice soothing glass of sherry this morning.
She tells me that scoffing down a meal of fish and chips, the fat-saturated variety, is still a popular pastime where she lives. Of course, the poor dear lives in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=75&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to fish and chips</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/whatever-happened-to-fish-and-chips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Fish and Chips on Fridays? That&#8217;s how we knew what day of the week it was, by the greasy bits of flake wrapped up in old newspaper. (We never minded the print dye running into the batter, it gave the potato cake an extra zing.) 
You just can&#8217;t get fatty food like that anymore, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=74&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools&#8217; Day</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/04/02/april-fools-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I managed to stay inside for all April Fools&#8217; Day. No one has managed to pull my leg for a while, but I kept an eye out through the venetians for suspicious activity just the same. Some of the nippers around here need a firm hand.  My goodness, back in my day if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=71&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deus ex machina</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/02/03/deus-ex-machina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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So I spent the morning with some Young Thing checking my blood pressure, bone density and asking me questions to which I answered almost truthfully.(Who tells the whole truth in a health check-up?)
Anyway, the upshot is I have an exercise regime to follow which includes a cross-country ski machine and lots of bouncing around with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=39&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Ham and Eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bloggery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My tenant Stephanie at Mystickal Incense is having fun with paint at the moment (I thought only kindergarten kids did that) but the pigs at National Taiwan University are green from the inside out. Yes, green. And they glow in the dark.
Back in my University days when the world was young, I would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=18&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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