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		<title>The trouble with words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of The Poke comes this little gem, designed by G. Nolst Trenité to test your pronunciation of English. There are a couple of challenging moments, even for those of us who like to think of ourselves modestly as master word smiths. Good luck! If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2181&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wooden wonder &#8211; Levi van Veluw&#8217;s new automata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Automata are non-electronic moving machines that, in ancient times, were used either as toys, or idols or to demonstrate basic scientific principles. Art and design website Colossal carries images and a video of Dutch artist Levi van Veluw&#8217;s newest creation, in wood (originally sourced from Faith Is Torment). There is something fascinating and beautiful about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2176&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kodak: harking back to a golden &#8211; or rather silvered &#8211; era</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes shocking to sit and think how quickly technology has come on in just a few short years. Photography is something I have always enjoyed, being brought up on Dad&#8217;s slides and even his own attempts to create a dark room in the attic. I remember my first Kodak camera with its stacked, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2168&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Scooby Doo to the human beat-box and Queen of the Night: the stunning versatility of the human voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often spend my Sunday evenings soaked in wine and good conversation, some beautiful opera or song playing as the fire crackles and the chatter fades away to a more melancholic reflection. Such moments reveal the beauty and versatility of the human voice. It&#8217;s an instrument you can take anywhere to entertain and enthrall. Whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2159&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iconic &#8216;taches &#8211; inspiration for mid-Movember growers #movember</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movember is the month of moustache-growing madness, raising awareness particularly for prostate cancer and other cancers affecting men. An international movement, in the UK Movember &#8216;taches can even be found sprouting in the corridors of Westminster. Moustaches may not be the most fashionable look, but there&#8217;s no doubting their pedigree. From musicians to scientists to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2134&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stunning street art illusions</title>
		<link>http://fragmentsandreflections.me/2011/11/12/stunning-street-art-illusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned my love of illusions before. One of the things that has captivated me since I first stumbled across it online is that genre of art where artists compose 3D illusions on pavements, usually out of chalk. There is something genuinely fascinating about the way the brain tricks the eye and some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2109&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lego lunacy</title>
		<link>http://fragmentsandreflections.me/2011/11/05/lego-lunacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend&#8217;s Facebook update reminded me how much I used to love Lego® as a kid. Lego was kept in a special box (and, latterly, when I needed additional storage, an old Quality Street tin). It was a green-coloured wooden box that Granddad had made specially, with brass hinges and brass hooks, and numerous internal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2098&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logs, spandex and the geo-politics of Rocky IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a delivery of logs this morning and, singledom introducing a whole new desire to shape up and get fit, I stuck my headphones on &#8211; Whitesnake, Alice Cooper and Biffy Clyro  - and threw myself into the log heap. As I worked up a sweat, stacking them against the side of the house, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2091&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music by wine glass &#8211; the haunting &#8220;glass harp&#8221; of Robert Tiso</title>
		<link>http://fragmentsandreflections.me/2011/11/05/music-by-wine-glass-the-haunting-glass-harp-of-robert-tiso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some strange instruments in this world &#8211; and one of them is a staple component of Sunday dinner (at Hillcroft at least): the wine glass. I can recall numerous evenings where we have, after too many bottles of Pinot Noir, attempted to play a few notes between however many happen to be perched [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2070&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animals, boats, magic, adventures &#8211; and lashings of ginger beer</title>
		<link>http://fragmentsandreflections.me/2011/11/04/animals-boats-magic-adventures-and-lashings-of-ginger-beer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wanted to be Barney. Or Jack. Or even Rory. I think I was probably Julian. At best Philip.  And sometimes I may have been just a bit of a Dick. Growing up in the countryside, with my imagination and a ready-made gang of four (brother and two cousins), I was never far from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fragmentsandreflections.me&amp;blog=11028617&amp;post=2055&amp;subd=fragandref&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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