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		<title>Many wrongs &#8230; but not all!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hands are rough, like a washerwoman&#8217;s whose whole life has been spent washing clothes by hand. F says to moisturise but I really don&#8217;t like the way they feel afterwards, so I don&#8217;t. That&#8217;s probably wrong. I&#8217;ve always been &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8935">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t really need Santa to come &#8230;&#8230; we have plenty already!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here it comes. The house is nearly ready. Progress is being made but we have an aperitivo with between 30 and 40 guests on Saturday evening so everything must be more super-clean and super-tidy than normal. Final cleaning is &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8923">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas, geese and, really, Christmas Card Stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the new stamps arrived yesterday. To those few in far-flung places, I&#8217;ve already sent off the cards as it included our news for this year, so they have old stamps. But for everyone else, the new stamps will be &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8910">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>About 5 months later &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest, he never actually wanted to do it. If other people asked (and they did, often over the last few years), he always said that he didn&#8217;t see the point. Whereas I always said that I would in &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8896">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Boiler Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things I remember. I remember it&#8217;s dark. I remember it&#8217;s cold. I remember the hods, the coke, the ashes, the metal bucket used to carry the hot ashes to a place further away to tip them on the growing heap &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8885">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Everything happened at 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I really know that not everything happened at 8. Some things happened before and some afterwards but, for most of them, it seems that 8 was the magic number. That was the year that many bad things happened. And, &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8881">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas is coming &#8230; and so are the stamps!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s nearly Christmas and, as usual, one has to do Christmas cards. And, for that, one needs stamps. And they have been released and I should get them on Thursday &#8211; which means this weekend will be writing cards. &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8865">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Strange collective nouns; a rushes of films; God&#8217;s Own Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*This post contains spoilers for some films, especially God&#8217;s Own Country* I recently saw, on Twitter that the collective noun (the name we give for a number of the same thing together) for pandas is &#8220;a cupboard&#8221;. So if you &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8812">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ho ho ho!  It&#8217;s that time of year again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here we are, in the first few days of December and, amazingly, Italy seems a bit more prepared than usual. Well, at least that is true of the post office. The Christmas stamps were released last Friday, 1st December &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8792">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connected! A wedding and a funeral.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the film. Except only the one wedding and not four. The wedding I mentioned in the two posts below. The funeral was yesterday. I had been feeling very anxious about it. I was going for the day. It meant &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8784">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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