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		<title>business cards</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/12/21/business-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Breakfast news anchor man said: &#8220;Like Americans, they carry their business cards with them everywhere&#8220; Is &#8216;carrying business cards&#8217; a euphemism for something like helpful friendly organised pretentious over-prepared &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>flashbulb memories</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/09/11/flashbulb-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of the phone ringing gradually woke me.   Nearly 6am (Pacific coast time), only UK friends would call me at this unearthly  time in the morning.   Sleepily I reached for the phone and pulled it to my ear only to hear the dial-tone.   Who-ever called had hung-up.   I never found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in a fortnight</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/07/23/in-a-fortnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[less than 2 weeks after arriving in the USA I&#8217;m in a project meeting with 10 Americans mostly wearing the pants (UK = shorts) of the khaki cargo variety programme manager: wendy, can we get a time on that deliverable? wendy: a fortnight silence more silence, I have no idea what&#8217;s happening team leader: did you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bring the broken arm in now</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/06/27/bring-the-broken-arm-in-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[falling over When I lived in the US my job provided comprehensive healthcare insurance. I fell over on a green slope while learning to ski. It felt like I&#8217;d broken my left, writing, arm. A friend drove me to the local hospital accident and trauma centre It took 90 minutes to drive there, it felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>play me, I&#8217;m yours</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/04/30/play-me-im-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jac Malloy posted this picture in my flickr group &#8216;Piano&#8217;s place in public&#8216; This is one of 16 placed around the city of Austin (Texas) as part Luke Jerram&#8217;s Street Piano&#8217;s project and Austin&#8217;s Art Week. The Street piano&#8217;s project has placed over 400 pianos with the simple instruction ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ in cities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>institutional violence or a ticket to Kansas?</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/04/17/institutional-violence-or-a-ticket-to-kansas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to earth from planet Wendy see the marketing of high healed shoes as institutionalised violence, targeting females. For some inexplicable reason hobbling, the risk of broken ankles, is an attractive female characteristic. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong The majority of females are complicit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>endings and beginnings</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/03/21/endings-and-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pacific North West, and Florence, two of the worlds most beautiful places. Death Cab for Cutie came from a town in the Pacific North West and named themselves after a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band song. So many good connections, there are more&#8230;. Death cab for Cutie sang Meet me at the equinox]]></description>
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		<title>beware the trees</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2011/02/09/beware-the-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://wendyhome.com/2011/02/09/beware-the-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[trees are evil with this one comment you intrigued me and raised the possibility that you were ever so slightly on a planet very distant from planet wendy  How does that work, how are trees evil? With an earnest expression you explained how they obscured street-signs so that you missed your turning or got lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>do you take walk ins?</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2010/11/23/do-you-take-walk-ins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is often the first question that I&#8217;ll ask the wait-staff at the door of a restaurant* in England.  Many, probably most, English restaurants use a booking system where you phone the restaurant in advance and book a table for your party.  In my early adulthood, I came to understand that if a restaurant accepted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bummer</title>
		<link>http://wendyhome.com/2010/08/18/bummer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the US it is an exclamation of disappointment. In the UK it is a noun describing someone&#8217;s sexual proclivities.  It still makes me laugh when a US friend writes bummer on my facebook status giving my English friends something to snigger and smirk about.]]></description>
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