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		<title>Little House on the Prairie Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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For our Family, Friends and other Grandparents in America and Canada.
I recently received the below email message from Melanie, a visitor to our site from the USA.&#160; The musical production she is working on, “The Little House on the Prairie”,&#160; was my daughters’ favourite book series when they were growing up in the States.&#160; When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Latest Holiday Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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We have just returned from two weeks holiday in Funchal with our friends. We have loaded a few of our pictures, showing various views around Madeira, to our gallery . 
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Hopefully you will see why we keep going back to our beautiful home away from home!
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		<title>How can we improve The Grandparents&#8217; Blog web site?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So far we have used our web site as a means of communicating “stuff” between our wide spread network of family and friends. Through our site, we have made new friends and our little circle has grown wider. From time to time we get heartfelt pleas and requests for advice from other grandparents who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our New Photo Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 12:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have replaced our blog site photo album content with all new photos in two new categories &#8220;My Floral Favourites&#8221; and &#8220;My Scenic favourites&#8221;. I will add more categories later and I will try to refresh the favourites as often as I can.&#160; Ii love seeing other people&#8217;s favourites and I will add a guest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandparents Relax</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; After several hectic weeks decorating our home and our son&#8217;s home we really looked forward to a restful two weeks in the Algarve.&#160; By shear chance we booked into a hotel near the quiet fishing village of Alvor.&#160; It truly was very relaxing and restful, right on the long, wide beach.&#160; We took frequent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Stealth Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Now I am in my late sixties, I believe I need to rant a bit more often &#8211; so here goes!
UK motorists are being converted from the old paper driving licence that slowly disintegrates over a driver&#8217;s lifetime.&#160; This conversion has been going on for the last ten years or so.&#160; When we returned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wife&#8217;s View</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When the man in your life retires, you both talk about it and plan it. How you both look forward to retirement, hoping you will have time to travel, read, cross-stitch, walk, spend more time with the grand-children and enjoying the garden. He can start on that list of jobs he said he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandpa&#8217;s Seafaring History!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather was a soldier in WWI and my father and uncles were all in the British army in WWII.&#160; So why did my brother and I join the Navy? There are family ties with the sea.&#160; Grandfather was a fisherman sailing from the Durham fishing ports for a while. There were other ancestors from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping in touch with grandchildren</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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Using the Internet to stay close to family and friends at home and abroad
How do you raise your children and grandchildren to enjoy the full benefits of the extended family, if grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends are scattered around the world? This is a problem I have lived with first hand!
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I recently submitted this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandma&#8217;s Cards  &#8211;  (Cards by Cornelia!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Like 1,356,728 other grandmas, this one is into card making!
Pity it wasn&#8217;t Texas holdem or Black jack or something.  However, she spends a few pounds (or twice as many bucks) on supplies each month and disappears into the card room for longer periods than grandpa spends on the PC (I swear). 
The end result is [...]]]></description>
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