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		<title>January Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case airports aren&#8217;t confusing enough, they put a man in the way of their signs. In a parallel world where toothpaste is definitely a liquid, sir and your multiple metal crowns earn you a brisk rub down by a complete stranger, you need a sign &#8211; something to point you in the right direction. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4211&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A long post for the shortest day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the slight delay in posting! It&#8217;s been a befuddling time on the farm since we last spoke. Big changes have taken place in this household, most of them positive but all of them very distracting. Readers of longstanding will recall that I aimed to feed myself from my field. Am I succeeding? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4163&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Post ( 1 day to go&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 03:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time&#8217;s up! The countdown is complete. Thanks to a big push over the last couple of weeks, there are now bottles and bottles of elderflower cordial in the fridge and jar upon jar of strawberry jam on the shelves. The early potatoes have been dug up and the paltry beans and peas podded and frozen. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4112&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospective (12 days to go&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 06:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I became 44 the other day. It&#8217;s surprisingly hard to take a day off when every day is a day off from doing things you don&#8217;t like. To achieve a complete contrast to the norm, I suppose I could have done my tax return&#8230; Instead, I made the pigs wait for breakfast a bit longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4096&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am a peasant (19 days to go&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My promise to eat from our land from June 1st has worked wonders. On countless occasions it&#8217;s got me outside when I was too tired, uninspired or downright lethargic to contemplate it under any other circumstances. Every bed on that ocean-sized field has now been cultivated (to some extent) and, despite May&#8217;s rampant efforts, I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4062&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberry season (22 days to go&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things didn&#8217;t like August in April. I planted hundreds of broad beans in October for nothing. And the peas sown at the same time are looking pallid and weedy. But, for some reason, none of this seems to matter today!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4054&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone for dock pudding? (25 days to go&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://ruralidiocy.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/anyone-for-dock-pudding-25-days-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 17:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not even started yet and it&#8217;s apparent this subsistence thing is like crossing a big, hungry river on wobbly stepping stones. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s all the same flow in reality, but it helps my brain to organise edibles into conventional categories of animals, vegetables, fruit and wild foods. The organisation &#8211; chronologically and otherwise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4041&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A breather (32 days to go&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://ruralidiocy.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/a-breather-32-days-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A peek in the greenhouse would confirm it. We&#8217;ve arrived at another of those watershed moments in the peasant&#8217;s gardening calendar. The kales, cabbages, brussels and cauliflowers are either planted out in the field or are waiting impatiently on the hardening off shelves. Also evicted from those hot confines, to grow on in cooler spaces, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=4018&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop gap solution (36 days to go..)</title>
		<link>http://ruralidiocy.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/stop-gap-solution-36-days-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it feels like water, time and cash are the same substance. They all flow (generally in one direction &#8211; away!). They&#8217;re easy to take for granted, until scarcity requires you to be more resourceful. And a severe deficit in any defeats self-sufficiency. Even the farmer from down the road looked worried. His normally keen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=3997&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bean pole challenge (40 days to go&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://ruralidiocy.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/bean-pole-challenge-40-days-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Akroyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brought to you with the help of Ben Short, frequent commenter on this blog &#8211; who has been staying in the gite with his lovely family this week &#8211; I humbly present our interpretation of the patented McCarthy™ Bean Structure: Although I&#8217;ll be using it for runner beans too, the main attraction for me is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruralidiocy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9510133&amp;post=3981&amp;subd=ruralidiocy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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