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		<title>Opening Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wish thespians good luck by telling them to break a leg. My favourite version of the origin of the saying is this one: In traditional curtains, the legs of the curtain were constructed from long wooden rods. In the case of many encores, curtains would be lifted and dropped numerous times causing them to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=945&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot me Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done it. I&#8217;ve signed up for Nano.
This means I MUST write a 50,000 word novel in November.  Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s good, bad or ugly.  It must just be 50,000 words or more.
What on earth for?
Well, I&#8217;ve done three writing courses this year, joined three writing groups* , and joined a book club.  With all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=937&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tulbagh Earthquake &#8211; 40 Years on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alhambra Theatre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago my dad woke me up and said I must go outside because there were elephants under my bed.
Tsk. 
South Africa had just experienced its worst earthquake:   6.3 on the Richter scale.  We were 90km away, and it was felt as far away as Durban (1175km). 
Mr Muffin remembers he was watching a cowboy movie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=930&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flip Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a rehearsal at 19h30 last night, and traffic cops prevented me from going onto  Wynberg Hill, which had been the scene of a horrific accident.  I stopped and asked for details, expecting to be shooed away.  But the officer was very polite and told me that a truck had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=927&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speechless Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abigail's Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young men are rare in Cape Town, and even more so in amateur theatre.
The play I’m in calls for some hard-to-find items: a Jose Feliciano LP, 1970’s ashtrays and furniture, Pomagne, and, you guessed it, a young man.
I listed these on the front of my script, to remind me to look for them when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=922&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Children Crossing: Sê Weer?</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/slow-children-crossing-se-weer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been exploring the interior of  Mr Muffin’s not-so-new-any-more car.
It’s very clean.  We believe no child has ever contaminated the interior.  I mean, what 7-year old car still has the protective plastic on the running board?
The sunvisor has a flap over the mirror.  When you open the flap a light comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=918&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Touché</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/touche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Muffin Manor, I cook supper and Mr Muffin makes lunch.  
But a long weekend usually throws out the grocery shopping routine, so this week’s been somewhat improvisational.
Last night,  I’d forgotten about an early meeting, so rushed out of the house leaving a note next to half a box of chocolates:  Hello [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=914&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ioannis NK Sugar Spill:  The End is Nigh</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ioannis-nk-sugar-spill-the-end-is-nigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superstition has it that if you spill sugar, you will get a visitor.  
Ioannis NK sank off our coastline last week, spilling 22 500 tons of sugar.  So just how big is our visitor going to be?  Common sense leads to the conclusion that this is the final sign that the Second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=910&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speechless Sunday</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/speechless-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Muffin usually waits in the car when I pop into Woolies, but this time he decided to come with me.
I picked up the milk and headed for the checkout, followed by a 56-year-old toddler:
”Can we get Chuckles for pudding?”
“No, we’re too fat.”
“What about these chips, they’re kettle-fried?”
“Too much salt.”
“And these sweets with added Vitamin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=907&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armstrong Fever</title>
		<link>http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/armstrong-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So which one did you think of? Neil or Lance?
 
Both of these men have had massive media coverage in the last few days: for Tour la Lune and Tour de France.
 
Forty years ago, Neil and his mates were toasting their successful return from the moon landing. Springbok Radio captured the moment. Colin Cullis played the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustymuffin.wordpress.com&blog=1360782&post=882&subd=dustymuffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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