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		<title>Book Launch:  &#8216;Luka Jantjie – Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier&#8217; by Kevin Shillington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still find it hard to believe that a simple question I asked on the blog over four years ago has grown a life of its own. On 4 June 2007, I asked David van Wyk if he had heard of Luka Jantje. Much discussion followed (all the posts are under blog category ‘History’), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Keyboard</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/broken-keyboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Five-Finger Exercises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least two novels have been published in English that did not use the letter &#8220;e&#8221; in the main body of their text. One was an English translation of a French novel that didn&#8217;t use &#8220;e&#8221; in its text. So this challenge ought to be simple, no? Write 25 to 50 words that tell, show, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ashtray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He flinched as the ashtray hit the wall behind him, creating a kaleidoscopic constellation as the shards scattered across the room, caught in the early morning sunbeams. “Why did you do that?” His nostrils flared, white. “You know I wanted it.” “You don’t even smoke.” Her lip curled as she spoke. “You only want it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bechuanaland Field Force and the Lang(e)berg Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new thread of correspondence has arisen from my blogs on Luka Jantjie*.  It deals with medals and badges relating to the Bechuanaland Field Force, and in particular with the Lang(e)berg Campaign. WordPress does not permit the posting of pictures in comments, so I have created a new blog in response to Robin Scott, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=992&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Grief a Deadline</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/giving-grief-a-deadline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusty Muffin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Dog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/?p=980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can someone develop inertia?  It sounds a bit like reversing backwards.  Well whatever it is, I’ve got it. When my mum died, my happy pills kept the black dog at bay for the first few months.  Its departure was replaced by an emptiness, a desire to do nothing.  So that’s what I did. Now, twenty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=980&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ordinary People</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/ordinary-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I saw a production of Alan Ayckbourn’s 2005 play, ‘Improbable Fiction’.  It’s not often that an audience claps during a scene, but apparently the following passage elicited applause every night: Brevis:  Being on the internet proves absolutely nothing.  I tell you the internet is probably the biggest repository for junk, rubbish and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=975&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I wish I could sing</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/i-wish-i-could-sing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I uttered this sentiment was to Clare, when we were emptying our dogs* in the forest one sunny afternoon. “OK,” she said, “but you have to give up something that you’re good at.” Hmm. I’ve thought and thought and thought.  But I can’t think of anything that I’m really good at that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=968&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Little Piggy</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/this-little-piggy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusty Muffin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dog treats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a sucker for dog treats. The more disgusting I think they are, the more delectable my dogs find them. Smoked pig’s ears are a firm favourite. They are often difficult to find, especially in Muslim-owned pet shops. This week they’ve been ousted by something even more revolting: smoked pig’s trotters, also known as walkaways. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=960&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where were you on 11 February 1990?</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/where-were-you-on-11-february-1990/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusty Muffin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happy Memories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel a bit embarrassed today. I have no idea what I was doing twenty years ago when Madiba was released from prison. I do remember that I on 11 February 1990, I was 24, lived in Tableview and drove a 1976 Ford Escort called Sunshine. I don’t think I even knew who Nelson Mandela [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=956&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, where’d January go?</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/so-where%e2%80%99d-january-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hen party (Nude art class. Phowaaar!) One wedding (Mr Muffin’s son. I wore a frock) Two funerals (Girls, get your girls checked out, ok?) Meals at Forries, Café Royale, Cape to Cuba, Bombay Bicycle Club, (Yum. All with wedding-related family) Two braais (One was a gas braai, does that count?) Two dinner parties. (One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1360782&amp;post=954&amp;subd=dustymuffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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