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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:09:28 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Gig</title>
<description><![CDATA[Off to see Radiohead in Manchester. <a title="Read 'Gig'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/29a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Trendsetter</title>
<description><![CDATA[Incarnadine paint proving popular. <a title="Read 'Trendsetter'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/29/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Compare and contrast</title>
<description><![CDATA[The pope and Marge Simpson. <a title="Read 'Compare and contrast'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/28a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Positive spin</title>
<description><![CDATA[Harman pushes discrimination plan <a title="Read 'Positive spin'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/28/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>We will fight them on the beaches</title>
<description><![CDATA[Why grandad fought the Nazis? <a title="Read 'We will fight them on the beaches'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/27a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yorkshire Post</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just so you know that the Hebden Bridge Times isn't the only Yorkshire newspaper to carry the occasional odd headline. <a title="Read 'Yorkshire Post'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/27/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Very Alan Bennett</title>
<description><![CDATA[Jen and I have just returned from a long weekend in Scarborough. <a title="Read 'Very Alan Bennett'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/26a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tribute band</title>
<description><![CDATA[Oasis announce new album details. <a title="Read 'Tribute band'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/26/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bleak doctrine</title>
<description><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton, writing in the London Review of Books recently. <a title="Read 'Bleak doctrine'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/22/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Devil Woman Game</title>
<description><![CDATA[A great game to play at pop concerts. <a title="Read 'The Devil Woman Game'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/16/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>322</title>
<description><![CDATA[hat's how many plastic bags were reused by the customers of the Prestwich branch of Tesco last week. <a title="Read '322'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/12c/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Near-death experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[Runaway Jewish gentleman. <a title="Read 'Near-death experience'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/12b/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ilie</title>
<description><![CDATA[Romanian tennis legend Ilie Nastase walked right past me in Liverpool this lunchtime. <a title="Read 'Ilie'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/12a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Man of principles</title>
<description><![CDATA[Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP. <a title="Read 'Man of principles'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/12/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dilly-Dellying</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dell website woes. <a title="Read 'Dilly-Dellying'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/10/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>No shit, Sherlock?</title>
<description><![CDATA[ID cards 'could threaten privacy'. <a title="Read 'No shit, Sherlock?'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/08a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A process of rain and peat and saliva</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nigel Tufnel expounds his revolutionary theories about Stonehenge. <a title="Read 'A process of rain and peat and saliva'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/08/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Trapped wind</title>
<description><![CDATA[Wouldn't Trapped Wind be a great name for a free-form jazz ensemble? <a title="Read 'Trapped wind'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/07/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Satire is getting harder and harder to spot</title>
<description><![CDATA[Smokers banned from naming or pointing at favourite brand. <a title="Read 'Satire is getting harder and harder to spot'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/04/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Shite at twice the price</title>
<description><![CDATA[BBC stars 'are not paid too much'. <a title="Read 'Shite at twice the price'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/02a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Faith, fast-tracking and charity</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Blair's new faith foundation awarded charitable status with unseemly haste. <a title="Read 'Faith, fast-tracking and charity'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/02/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>9.72s</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bolt sets new 100m world record. <a title="Read '9.72s'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/06/01/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Two sights which made me smile yesterday</title>
<description><![CDATA[Well, more like grin from ear to ear than smile, really. <a title="Read 'Two sights which made me smile yesterday'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/31a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>&#8230; and still the government finds yet more things to ban</title>
<description><![CDATA[This time it's banning logos on cigarette packets. <a title="Read '&#8230; and still the government finds yet more things to ban'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/31/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Liverpool One (rest of the world, nil)</title>
<description><![CDATA[Phase 1 of Liverpool One opens. <a title="Read 'Liverpool One (rest of the world, nil)'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/30/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Belting sunset this evening</title>
<description><![CDATA[(Photo.) <a title="Read 'Belting sunset this evening'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/26/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Count me in</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mytholmroyd Chrysanthemum Society has disbanded after 74 years. <a title="Read 'Count me in'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/24c/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Blowing in the wind</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dean Windass - fnaar! <a title="Read 'Blowing in the wind'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/24b/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New in the sidebar&#8230; Bookmarks!</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have added del.icio.us bookmarks to the Gruts sidebar. <a title="Read 'New in the sidebar&hellip; Bookmarks!'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/24a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Party piece</title>
<description><![CDATA[Video: Echo & the Bunnymen, 'Do It Clean'. <a title="Read 'Party piece'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/24/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lepidoptera stensonis</title>
<description><![CDATA[In which I nearly discover a new species of butterfly. <a title="Read 'Lepidoptera stensonis'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/19/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sounds very promising</title>
<description><![CDATA[Indiana Jones is back - and on form. <a title="Read 'Sounds very promising'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/18b/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Past cotton grass and moorland boulder&#8230;</title>
<description><![CDATA[More steam train photos. <a title="Read 'Past cotton grass and moorland boulder&hellip;'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/18a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tack, Sverige!</title>
<description><![CDATA[The simple truth is, we have a lot to thank Sweden for. <a title="Read 'Tack, Sverige!'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/18/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hip to be Square</title>
<description><![CDATA[International links forged with squares. <a title="Read 'Hip to be Square'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/17a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pib</title>
<description><![CDATA[... a surprisingly rare opening syllable. <a title="Read 'Pib'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/17/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Beer came out of our collective noses</title>
<description><![CDATA[What Jen and I and most of Jen's family misheard her (Irish) mum to say in the pub last night. <a title="Read 'Beer came out of our collective noses'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/11b/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bosh</title>
<description><![CDATA[I've just worked out why, when the Halifax Bank merged with the Bank of Scotland, they chose to merge the two banks' initials in the order that they did. <a title="Read 'Bosh'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/11a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Better inoculate than never</title>
<description><![CDATA[Children will be banned from starting school until they receive the MMR jab, under new Labour party proposals. <a title="Read 'Better inoculate than never'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/11/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Incarnadine</title>
<description><![CDATA[The more observant of you might have noticed that the banner across the top of the page has changed from a tasteful orange colour to a rather dramatic red. <a title="Read 'Incarnadine'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/10/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BBC News web team goes for headline of the month</title>
<description><![CDATA[Great tits cope well with warming. <a title="Read 'BBC News web team goes for headline of the month'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/09/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>More ducks than is usual</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is it my imagination, or are there more ducks than is usual for the time of year flying about at the moment? <a title="Read 'More ducks than is usual'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/08/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cue the Hallelujah Chorus&#8230;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Phil Collins announces musical retirement. <a title="Read 'Cue the Hallelujah Chorus&#8230;'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/07/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Taxing our minds</title>
<description><![CDATA[Downing St stands by rubbish tax. <a title="Read 'Taxing our minds'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/05a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Trouble brewing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nuclear threat sparked tea worry. <a title="Read 'Trouble brewing'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/05/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/05/</guid>
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<title>What it takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ofsted 'can deter would-be heads'. <a title="Read 'What it takes'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/04/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dick-wit in town</title>
<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson wins London mayoral race. <a title="Read 'Dick-wit in town'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/03a/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Queen Bitch</title>
<description><![CDATA[David Bowie video. <a title="Read 'Queen Bitch'" href="http://www.gruts.com/archive/2008/05/03/">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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