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		<title>Winter Solstice Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year closes just as Threshers the wine shop closes in Kelso, the last thing to be sold was Israeli dessert wine &#8211; so it was the online Wine Society for Christmas Claret and Chablis, together with Alnwick Ales for the Festive Kegs of Yule Fuel and Secret Kingdom. The alcohol supplements included 72% absinthe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2010/01/winter-solstice-snow/</link>
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		<title>Bass Rock and Roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sea Kayak strapped to top of car and everything necessary inside and setting off in the dark Saturday morning, missing Gutbusters but ready for a paddle in the Forth. A few snow flakes were worryingly falling the night before now replaced with an icy wind. This really didn&#8217;t sounds a good idea so I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/12/ollie-bass-rock/</link>
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		<title>Oldest Swinger in Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seemed a straight forward plan &#8211; visit GoApe in the Lake District to go swinging through the trees. Even better Kim had procured a free Gorilla with every purchase (we weren&#8217;t too sure where we were going to keep it though) as long as we visited before the end of November (Gorillas must hibernate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/12/oldest-swinger-in-town/</link>
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		<title>Stayin&#8217; Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seemed a good idea at the time to sign up for the Foundation Rescue and Safety course at Allanton, whilst sitting in a warm sitting room in front a computer. The reality was a cold Saturday morning standing pushing Bob&#8217;s van stuck in mud at the side of the Whiteadder River in Berwickshire and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/11/stayin-alive/</link>
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		<title>Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh to be in England now that Autumn is here &#8211; and I was, lying contemplating life, as I try not to move in the very squeaky bed and feel the pain of the weeks sailing all over &#8211; when suddenly a knock at the door and &#8216;Your breakfast is on the table&#8217; lilts over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/10/mists-and-mellow-fruitfulness/</link>
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		<title>Day Skipper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All my waterproofs packed and it was off on the SouthWest airline flight from Newcastle to Plymouth. The board gate information gives a counter down in minutes labelled &#8216;Time to shop&#8217;. Musing at the queues of woman holding plastic sacks of toiletries to maintain them during short flights I boarded to find my manly waterproof [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ali called &#8216; I need to visit the Falkirk Wheel for my course&#8217;. In that sentence came the germ of an idea to paddle up the union canal and emerge on the wheel to meet him. Well so much for theory. I then found the Skippers Guide to the Union Canal on the internet and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/10/state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<title>Plockton Paddle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for the annual flying club outing to Plockton which yet again saw no-one flying there from East Fortune (one intrepid soul had left for Gigha the day before and managed to reach Plockton up the west coast) due to very low cloud over the munro height mountains. George had been up there for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/09/plockton-paddle/</link>
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		<title>Flying To Land&#8217;s End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s guest blogger is Kim &#8211; she had already written an account and it seemed churlish to redo it &#8211; it is, however, edited to remove any embarrassing account involving Mike naturally (or even supernaturally)
Day 1: 9/9/09: East Fortune to Sherburn in Elmet 2hr 40mins

Early start at the airfield &#8211; unlocked the gate and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeforsyth.com/index.php/2009/09/flying-to-lands-end/</link>
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		<title>August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August started on a Saturday, which means that no other month this year starts on a Saturday (unless this was a leap year, which it ain&#8217;t &#8211; February in a leap year starts on the same day of a week as August). So the Saturday saw us up bright and early for Gutbusting as usual, [...]]]></description>
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