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		<title>Maybe I just got out of bed the wrong side this morning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s biggest fan of labels, it has to be said. Not the ones that come inside your underwear, although frankly I think I speak for us all when I say that it can be rather annoying when they get caught in your netherlands when you least expect it. But grouping people into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping mum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you tell people that you&#8217;re going to become a father for the first time (or in my case, a father to a baby for the first time, given the presence of The Young Ones), you suddenly find yourself playing a game of Baby Bingo. As the well-meaning person you&#8217;re talking to rattles off platitudes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing my voice</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2009/06/19/losing-my-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably fair to say that my greatest fear as an expat is losing my accent. Not that my accent is anything to get excited about, or a strange dialect that only three people in the world speak. But the idea of waking up one morning with a strange mid-Atlantic twang is enough to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A nasty infestation of Brits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my occasional trips back to the UK, there&#8217;s always one statement of presumed immutable fact that practically every person makes when they find that I live and work in New York. No, not &#8220;you must see movie stars on the streets everyday.&#8221; And not even &#8220;planes land in the river there, don&#8217;t they?&#8221; No, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s only words, and words are all I have</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2009/01/09/its-only-words-and-words-are-all-i-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain is a wonderful thing, but let’s face it, on occasions it chooses the path of least resistance. This is particularly true when it comes to language. I think the average human vocabulary consists of around 20,000 or so ‘word families’ (meaning that The Special One’s extensive and expertly-curated collection of F-bombs sadly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The curious incident of the missing letter</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2008/11/17/the-curious-incident-of-the-missing-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows The Special One will be well aware that she has an ill-disguised competitive side. Whether she’s playing a game of charades or just tossing a coin, she hates ending up on the losing side. As a result, she has an incredibly quick learning curve which, for example, has allowed her to win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two pasties</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2008/11/07/a-tale-of-two-pasties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and never more so than in the kitchen. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve gone to cook a well-loved recipe like fish pie, only to realise that I have forgotten to buy some of the vital ingredients. Like fish, for instance. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We even have electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2008/11/07/we-even-have-electricity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that it feels like America has been living in the dark ages for a while, and that Tuesday evening saw the re-emergence of this country as a respected player on the world stage. But it wasn&#8217;t until I went home to the UK this weekend that I realised just how far some people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with the trouble and strife*</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2008/09/30/problems-with-the-trouble-and-strife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that men and women talk different languages, but in the case of The Special One and I, that’s pretty much true. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been forced to deconstruct a sentence in order to get to the heart of what I’ve actually been trying to communicate. And that’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a little too comfortable</title>
		<link>http://www.britoutofwater.com/2008/09/24/getting-a-little-too-comfortable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve made two horrific discoveries today*. Discoveries that make me question my very existence, and look at myself in a new, and not wholly palatable, light. 1. I read a blog today which mentioned a visit to Home Depot, shortly after I&#8217;d taken delivery of an order of stationery from Office Depot. On both occasions, [...]]]></description>
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