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		<title>Jack&#8217;s Big Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This my journal from my trip to London with my Grandpa Day One 
The flight down from Edinburgh was smooth, but I had earache during the descent into Heathrow.  When we were waiting for our luggage I saw Miss Stein, she was my teacher when I was in P5!  
The express train into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2009/04/12/jacks-big-trip/</link>
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		<title>Feshie Frolics &#8211; A bothy weekend at Ruigh Aitcheachan</title>
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It was one of those group psychology moments that you read about, where each team member is waiting for someone else to suggest a better plan, like sleeping in the car, or going back to the pub, or just going home.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2008/02/08/feshie-frolics-a-bothy-weekend-at-ruigh-aitcheachan/</link>
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		<title>Healthy Living &#8211; but check those telomeres!</title>
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Accidents excepted, it&#8217;s beginning to look as if your life is in your own hands in more than the metaphorical sense. A recent BBC post outlined research that seems to prove that the &#8216;an apple a day&#8217; adage may be true, and that healthy living can add around 14 years of quality life.
This has always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2008/01/30/healthy-living-but-check-those-telomeres/</link>
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		<title>Barga in Tuscany</title>
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The images are from personal visits to this fascinating mediaeval walled town in the verdant and beautiful countryside of Tuscany (click here for a good website about the history and attractions of the area).  Many of the Italian families that form the backbone of the Scottish Ice Cream and Fish Restaurant trade originally came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2008/01/16/barga-in-tuscany/</link>
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		<title>Memories of winters past &#8211; 1</title>
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Blame global warming if you like, but the hard crisp winters of happy memory are just that &#8211; memories.  The pattern in more recent times has been for a dump of snow and sub-zero temperatures around the end of November (we all think &#8216;this is it&#8217;!), then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2008/01/09/memories-of-winters-past-1/</link>
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		<title>The Anasazi Indian ruins on Mesa Verde</title>
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Something to get straight from the very start &#8211; there never was a tribe of Indians called the &#8216;Anasazi&#8217;. The name derives from a Navajo word, loosely translated as &#8216;ancient enemy&#8217;, first used by archaeologists looking for a common name to identify people living  in the &#8216;Four Corners&#8217; area where New Mexico, Utah, Colorado [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2008/01/05/the-anasazi-indian-ruins-on-mesa-verde/</link>
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		<title>Durango to Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad</title>
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We made three separate trips on this famous narrow gauge railway, from Durango to the old mining town of Silverton, 9,300 feet up in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.  Originally, the line had a southern connection at Durango with the Denver and Rio Grande line, founded in 1870 to connect Denver and Mexico [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2007/12/23/durango-to-silverton-narrow-gauge-railroad/</link>
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		<title>The Bigger Issue?</title>
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cartoon by bigeyedeer
Not usually very observant, I had noticed that the Big Issue sellers on the usual pitches seemed to have changed nationality &#8211; and that some of them were a bit more aggressive than usual, but a chance look at Steve Clarkson&#8217;s blog focused my attention on a disturbing trend.
What seems to be happening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2007/12/16/the-bigger-issue/</link>
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		<title>I know it&#8217;s embarrassing, but can we talk about prostates?</title>
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It&#8217;s a tricky little thing, the prostate. Usually, the doughnut-shaped gland functions for an entire lifetime without evident problems, busily producing part of the fluid that carries the sperm during ejaculation.  Since we can&#8217;t see it, men are generally unaware that they have such a thing, with only a hazy notion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2007/12/13/i-know-its-embarrassing-but-can-we-talk-about-prostates/</link>
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		<title>All I really need to know&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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Robert Fulghum in 2007
 I saw a new article about Robert Fulghum &#8211; an author whose words have resonated with me over the years; words that are worth another look as we head for 2008.
Born in 1937, Fulghum is a Texan with a fairly diverse career pattern, including periods as  an artist,  ditch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hipkin.net/2007/12/07/all-i-really-need-to-know/</link>
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