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		<title>Drawing a Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all I would like to extend my thanks to everyone on here and Twitter who have shown me such support, love and understanding, that it has quite taken my breath away. I wish I could thank you all personally. I wish I could hug you and show you just how much every word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Text to Inspire and Sustain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the upheaval, surviving the backlash and making what I thought were concrete plans, I have decided to stay with my family.
I don&#8217;t know that this is the right decision for me as an individual &#8211; but I do know that leaving is not the best thing I can do for my family.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note of Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A meme from Careyannie&#8217;s Mumma Said
Family
Aunty Mim is 9 years older than me. She lent me her Jackie and gave me the non-David Cassidy posters to put up on my wall. She told me that the henna she put on her hair was cow poo and for years I believed her. I followed her diet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Til Death Us Do Part&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.dottymummy.co.uk/family/til-death-us-do-part</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I said those words almost 15 years ago I truly believed the promise I was making would be an unbreakable bond. I looked forward, like most other brides, to a life of making memories and growing old together. We have weathered sickness, changes in our fortunes and circumstances, been blessed with two wonderful children, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastination</title>
		<link>http://www.dottymummy.co.uk/the-house-beautiful/procrastination</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a procrastinator. There I have said it. There are countless web sites, books, mp3s, gurus who promise to teach me how to confront this burden I carry – but not one which will do the one small thing that gets in my way of
perfecting the art of ribbon pleating
http://www.vintagesewing.info/1920s/25-m/m-11.html
making my ideal hat
http://www.hgtv.com/crafting/silk-and-taffeta-hat-and-handbag/index.html
creating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Father Christmas&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My idea of the perfect Christmas present has changed over the years&#8230; particularly over the last 6 child-filled years. I am sure that strikes a chord with many&#8230;.
Gone are the days when, as one half of a high-earning couple, I could go to my favouite jeweller (the very handsome, charming and utterly delectable David Dudley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picnics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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Picnics have been a part of my life since I can remember – from being packed off for the day as a child with a jam sandwich, a bottle of Dandelion &#38; Burdock and a promise to be home by teatime to dining al-fresco in black tie deep in the Nambian bush beneath the twinkling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01 August 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in a reflective mood&#8230;
I should mention that today was Wee2&#8217;s 4th birthday. We had a quiet day with just the right ingredients to make it a happy day for the little one. His requests for presents included a Transformer (Wee1 likes them), swimming goggles, a shelf and a torch. Cleverly Mr Dotty found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 July 2009 &#8211; Packing Day</title>
		<link>http://www.dottymummy.co.uk/diary/13-july-2009-packing-day</link>
		<comments>http://www.dottymummy.co.uk/diary/13-july-2009-packing-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dotty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9.30am
Mr Dotty has &#8216;nipped out&#8217; to B&#38;Q to return a faulty saw. This would be like me &#8216;nipping out&#8217; to have &#8216;quick coffee&#8217; with a girlfriend. He has not taken the Wees with him. It is peeing down outside. My washing (most of the childrens&#8217; clothes that I need to pack) is still on the [...]]]></description>
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