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	<title>The Grandparents' Blog &#187; Newsy Items</title>
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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>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>Audio Versions of Bananas Bed Time Stories &#8211; 1. Bananas Helps George</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The first story to be adapted to audio is &#34;George Helps Bananas and Farmer Jones&#34;. 
We have re-titled the audio version &#34;Bananas helps George&#34;.&#160;&#160; 
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We have to thank Richard Farrar for his knowledge, time, and effort (and the use of his &#34;recording studio&#34;).&#160; Also many thanks to Richard, his son James and Winnie Clarke [...]]]></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>William Forsyth Davison 1914-1992</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Who was our greatgrandpa, the founder of our nomadic branch of the Clan Davison?
Known to all as Bill &#8211; he was born in 1914 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bill’s father, George, was a plumber but not much is known about him. Bill’s mother Sarah Jane (Adams), known as Jenny, was a seamstress and worked in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Grandpa&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ His part in the North African Campaign in the Second World War.
Read his story at WW2 stories.
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Getting the story onto the web was down to a fortunate chain of events:

By chance, brother Bill stumbled upon a great website showing the passenger list for RMS Franconia which sailed from Liverpool to Quebec on 29th April [...]]]></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>Family Feedback</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Encouraging feedback from our sister, also a grandma: &#8221; I love your new site!  I think it will catch on once oldies find it (and can remember how to find it again). &#8221;
Don&#8217;t forget to bookmark this site or get really clever and sign up for RSS feed updates or email announcements of new postings.
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		<title>Old but not so blind:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grandma outwits the youngsters in a modern version of eye-spy.]]></description>
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