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		<title>An Abundance of Crannogs on Loch Awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Glenelg trip cancelled, and Fife Sea Kayakers spread across different waters in Scotland, Ray, Eck and myself decided, from a large list of excellent suggestions and with an uncertain weather forecast, to paddle the entire length of Loch Awe and back again, leaving all our cars at one end to make sure we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barra and Vatersay Expeditionary Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team consisted of John, Ray and myself, rendezvousing in the car park of the CalMac Oban ferry car park to load fully laden sea kayaks onto tiny trollies, which were then dragged with one hand up into the bowels of the ferry, the other hand wheeling mountain bikes. In my case this was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop Till You Drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time of year I turn to recommending products that I have used through the year and make suggestions, or what are known as unsubtle hints to my family for products I would quite like for Xmas. So lets start with the best way to read a book in a tent, if I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Cycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 08:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started off as an idea to cycle from Newcastle central station to Berwick-upon Tweed railway station up the coast, and it turned out there was a coast and castle cycle route already so I bought the guidebook, which I then lost somewhere in my library, and 2 maps both of which had slightly different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat That Cutter Rocked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed straightforward &#8211; crewing for a yacht being taken down the coast for winter from Oban to Rhu, near Helensburgh requiring traversing the Crinan Canal. It was all going to be new and exciting &#8211; especially as it was November outwith any sailing season. What could go wrong? It was going to be Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Two Thousand and a Eleven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now the start of February and I am finally putting fingers to keyboard to reflect on this year so far. I have been tardy with my blog for the simple reason that I live on twitter now @jailhouserock and twitter takes less time out of any busy day to simply rattle off a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dusting off my Orange bike I decided that since I remember it is all downhill to my archery night at Kirknewton and that Kim will pick me up later I shall go for a spin. Well it turned out remembering hills in a car and actually doing them on a bike are two very different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Cup Nick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archery ended on Thursday night with me missing the target and splitting the wooden surround, followed by hitting the inner gold so they didn&#8217;t ask me to leave immediately, followed by being presented with my certificate of completing the 6 week course with the advice that this allowed me to join any archery club and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having survived another archery evening, where I assembled the bow and added a sight which gave me such improved accuracy I managed to hit the wrong target with one shot &#8211; the danger however was far more in my driving where on an unfamiliar road I went steaming across a crossroad without realising it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island On An Edge &#8211; St Kilda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a gunman running amok in North Northumberland, together with the police not too sure where he was and with me living not too far from the Border I decided to tell Kim to lock the doors and I headed to the Outer Hebrides with a kayak on the roof, making sure not to pick [...]]]></description>
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