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	<description>Local to Global: Everyday stories from an Irish Food Market</description>
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		<title>Hen Rescue!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn’t often in the city that you get the chance to rescue a hen.
At around 10.30 this morning, J, baby-J and I were walking out for a late breakfast when we discovered a hen in the driveway of a large terraced house in the south area of the city.  Rather concerned that she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Changes</title>
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Since Feng Shui had cropped up in a recent conversation, I decided to rekindle my interest and apply some Space Clearing and Feng Shui techniques in my own home, being mindful to perform the former before embarking on the latter, otherwise you could end up doubling your troubles.
One of the missing areas in my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Interval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The signal for our satellite dish had been obstructed by this year’s outstanding growth on the lime tree in my neighbour’s garden.  He had cut out some branches, to no avail, and a decision had to be made, cut down the tree or move the dish to the chimney and it was my decision, said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alifisher.com/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Redcurrant Jelly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t made redcurrant jelly since I was giving dinner parties in the early nineties when my favourite dish to serve to my guests was a stuffed crown of lamb with redcurrant sauce.  However, when making redcurrant jelly, I have always been appalled at the amount of sugar which is used but now I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alifisher.com/?p=154</link>
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		<title>From Garden to Plate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By way of letting you know that my auction bid was successful after all – see New Experiences post – here are some photographs.  My garden has produced a magnificent crop of redcurrants this year, and here they are first on the bush and second, on one of the Bohemian glass plates which I acquired. I hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Experiences</title>
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My friend Cathy announced that she was going to contribute to me gaining some new experiences to help me discover what lay outside my present sphere of activity.  A woman of her word, she collected me last Saturday morning to attend a viewing of the contents of the country home of the late Sally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meitheal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a great debate on at the moment as to whether Irish as a language should remain a compulsory subject on the Irish schools’ curriculum.  Suggestions have been made to incorporate learning about Irish tradition and culture along with an introduction to the language and to drop it as a necessary subject for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week some family and friends called to my home to find out what they could do to help as my back had finally told me in no uncertain terms that I hadn’t heeded my own words (see Crossroads blog) and it has produced enough pain and attendant tiredness to keep me away from work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alifisher.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I switched on the light
In the darkened room of my existence.
Powerful, life-enhancing words tumbled forth,
Cascading like a refreshing, mountainside waterfall,
To cleanse my emotional wasteland.
Negativity dissolved like a soluble substance
On the tongue of my speaking,
Translating into a new language
For the expression
Of the progression
Of my awareness.
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		<link>http://www.alifisher.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Ben</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday morning, 1st of May, I received a phone call from Ben to ask if his friend had come in to pay for his groceries as he hadn’t had the money a few weeks’ ago.  It had amounted to 6 euros and 10 cents and he wanted to be reassured that it had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alifisher.com/?p=120</link>
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