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		<title>Bring me sunshine&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2010/05/04/bring-me-sunshine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cowslips bring me sunshine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cowslip is protected here in the UK but you wouldn’t think that it was in decline if you came across this field whilst out walking.  In the heart of Leicestershire we have several hot spots of cowslips, and this has to be one of my favourites. It’s tucked away. My boys call it the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=256&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen Project: and so it begins..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, 8 years on and we have a new kitchen on the way. I have tried wrecking the other one to move things on a bit but it back fired slightly. Instead, I have spent the last two years looking at a few gashes in the current kitchen cupboard doors and wished that I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=249&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rhubarb Crumble &#8211; fresh out of the ground today!</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2010/04/11/rhubarb-crumble-fresh-out-of-the-ground-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t beat it &#8211; fresh rhubarb, a little sprinkling of sugar, topped with crumble topping (see here) and in it goes until golden brown! Now, where&#8217;s the double cream (or custard, but never both&#8230;) .  Sid was the gentleman who lived in this house for over 40 years before he passed away. He has left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=243&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer’s Block. I blame the HRT Coulibiac</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2010/03/02/writer%e2%80%99s-block-i-blame-the-hrt-coulibiac/</link>
		<comments>http://thisruralwife.com/2010/03/02/writer%e2%80%99s-block-i-blame-the-hrt-coulibiac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is tough. Really tough. I am absolutely stuffed.  I have written two chapters in two months and my son is giving me grief because he thinks that I should rewrite them both. &#8216;It&#8217;s all been said and done before!&#8217; he declared. He’s ten. And what’s worse, he’s right. I have a &#8216;bestseller&#8217; on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=229&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blackberry Gin Time!</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/27/blackberry-gin-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. I have searched high and low for my recipe and can’t find it anywhere.  It’s not that I have a particularly large or disorganised kitchen but I know that it was on a sheet of paper somewhere and it appears to have disappeared. Anyway, here it is – from memory. If I have left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=214&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8216;rare&#8217; Common Blue spotted on the edge of the Shire</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/24/my-rare-common-blue-spotted-on-the-edge-of-the-shire/</link>
		<comments>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/24/my-rare-common-blue-spotted-on-the-edge-of-the-shire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Neuk, Lundin Links :adies Golf, this rural life, this rural wife, common blue butterfly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=196&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rounding up the children for tea</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/24/rounding-up-the-children-for-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is still fox-hunting country, whether banned or not. There are several active hunts here that still survive following the Hunting Ban, namely the Quorn and the Belvoir Hunts. I have no opinion on hunting either way and although I do ride, it is not something I have the slightest interest in taking up. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=182&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple and Blackberry Crumble</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/16/apple-and-blackberry-crumble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a great one for puddings but with three boys in the house, I am very much outnumbered.  Most of the puddings I make are simple and are made to accompany Sunday lunch.  Furthermore, most of our puddings are really straightforward and usually involve fruit that is either from our garden, a neighbour’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=131&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One home baking, Rayburn cooking and food BC</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/16/one-home-baking-rayburn-cooking-and-food-bc/</link>
		<comments>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/16/one-home-baking-rayburn-cooking-and-food-bc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a chef and will never claim to be anything else but a lover of simple home cooking.  In my life BC (before children) I had no interest whatsoever in cooking. I rarely had little else other than a good white wine and some cheese in the fridge.  And milk for tea.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=125&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would you like them here or there?</title>
		<link>http://thisruralwife.com/2009/08/05/would-you-like-them-here-or-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JPM</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boys went over to a friend’s today so that I may finish an article that was (and still is) way past its deadline.  No, I didn’t finish it and yes, I am writing this instead.  Writer’s block notwithstanding, I find on these occasions it is worth switching off totally from the piece in hand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisruralwife.com&amp;blog=5498806&amp;post=89&amp;subd=janemacnaughton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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