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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						Have you taken Bob to the Jorvic Centre? A fair amount of excavation and front-end loading has gone on there.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:40:16 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p>No longer in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne &mdash; just moved to York yesterday!  We're now living a stone's throw from the old city walls.</p><p>I'm just doing my usual writey things, but Jennifer is doing terribly brainy linguistic stuff at various English and Scottish universities.  Bob is also working hard at linguistics, having…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:37:34 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						...and thank you, David.  Is it too rude to ask what might you be doing in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne?
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				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:21:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p>Geoff:</p><p>Extremely pleased that you enjoyed <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/default,5407.sm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My First Stabbing</a>!  And delighted to find someone that shares my secret list of abhorrence.</p><p>I will certainly do my best to get another book out for summer 2009...</p><p>Thanks so much for taking the time to drop me a line.</p><p>P.S. I've always…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:10:45 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						<p>David: I kept My First Stabbing for a January treat but have put it aside. not quite finished, as it is a treat to savour.  It is tremendous--a book for reading out loud to adults.<br />I reckon you have read my secret list list of Things I Abhore viz leaky…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:35:58 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sam F</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Stephen Fry is in Wellington filming a TV series following up on Douglas Adams' book and series' Last chance to see' of 20 years ago. (It's about endangered species). Fry is here to look at wetas (lucky him) and kakapo.</p></blockquote><p>Oh, <em>ace</em> . I read <em>Last Chance to See</em> a…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:39:34 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Williams</title>
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						<blockquote><p>while dugongs have fluked tails and the males have tusks).</p></blockquote><p>Advice for any parents visiting Sydney, if you're minded to see the dugongs at Sydney aquarium, go really really early &ndash; opens at 9am &ndash; else expect obscene delays.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:20:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						Some trivia for today. Stephen Fry is in Wellington filming a TV series following up on Douglas Adams' book and series' Last chance to see' of 20 years ago. (It's about endangered species). Fry is here to look at wetas (lucky him) and kakapo. But also on his list are…
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:18:50 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Williams</title>
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						<blockquote><p><em>Wahey! The kinky bugger. Still, a nice touch for the honeymoon.</p><p>    (Sorry Kyle)</em></p><p>I ... rofflenui'd!!</p></blockquote><p>Gwad, the heat's getting to me, I had to read that several times before I too rofflenui'd!</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:20:27 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						<p>A bit like a PA thread? No, sounds more like thestandard.</p><p>But I'm sure they had great fun doing it.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:38:57 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<blockquote><p>For those who are interested I have read 'Naked Came the Manatee' and don't think it is worth making a huge effort to track down</p></blockquote><p>I was fascinated by it as a process &ndash; it's an exquisite corpse type story, where each subsequent chapter was written by a different author.…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:33:15 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						<p>David, exciting to hear about the nascent dugong story. Dugongs are the Australian version but very closely related to the Florida ones. </p><p>For those who are interested I have read 'Naked Came the Manatee' and don't think it is worth making a huge effort to track down, unless you fancy…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:38:09 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p><strong>Anna I</strong> wrote:</p><blockquote><p>Fantastic as always David!</p><p>On an entirely unrelated note, I bought 'My First Stabbing' as a Christmas present for my boyfriend, who is now a Southerly convert. We both loved it; his only comment was that he finished it too quickly!</p><p>.... Hope you all had a…</p></blockquote>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:44:36 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Anna I</title>
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						<p>Fantastic as always David! </p><p>On an entirely unrelated note, I bought 'My First Stabbing' as a Christmas present for my boyfriend, who is now a Southerly convert. We both loved it; his only comment was that he finished it too quickly! Looking forward to the second book. </p><p>Hope you all…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:19:57 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						<p>www.savethemanatee.org</p><p>tells you all about manatees and you can even 'adopt' one and get a photo and reports of sitings as they roam around the shallows of Florida avoiding dangerous boat propellers.  </p><p>Emma &ndash; I've just borrowed that book 'Naked came the Manatee' from a friend who bought it at…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:25:18 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Awww</p></blockquote><p>Awwwww!</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2q8dmVJWw&amp;feature=related" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2q8dmVJWw&amp;feature=related</a><br />Least favourite. Excuse the shonky Squigglevision.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:06:12 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Hamilton</title>
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						<p>My favourite Manatee related youtube video:</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNi8dzj0S8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Awww</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:09:15 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						Thanks for the Manatees? Unfortunately, (possibly) the most disturbing manatee-related book title is<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Manatee" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">already taken</a>.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:06:08 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Heather W.</title>
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						Which <a href="http://www.etnl-diecast.com/triumph1.htm#Mayflower" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Triumph?</a>  Can't see it being a bike.  Though one would think from some reports that all humanity  went around in Droves e.g. "Left the country in droves"
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:59:20 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Mark Easterbrook</title>
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						The Triumph of Hugh Manatee, perhaps?
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						Thanks David. That story was enjoyed by young and old. But please could I make a request for the future. One day would you write about manatees? There are not many stories featuring manatees even though they are cuter than otters, way more endangered, and related to mermaids.
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p><strong>Ian MacKay</strong> wrote:</p><blockquote><p>Have printed the Otter triumph and will give it to teacher friends to trial. If it is a success I will only extract 50% in royalties.</p></blockquote><p>Oh, I'd be quite interested to hear the results.</p><p>Although I should point out that Jolisa's agent (a certain Gemma Gracewood)…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:22:41 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Julie Fairey</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I got a Circulon wok. It is precious.</p></blockquote><p>Ah, one wok to bring them all and in the darkness bind them?  Just what <em>do</em> you have planned for PA in 2009 Russell?!</p><p>I got the complete Black Books on dvd which I am quite excited about as I've only seen…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:10:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian MacKay</title>
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						Have printed the Otter triumph and will give it to teacher friends to trial. If it is a success I will only extract 50% in royalties. Spike would be very impressed with the story but he is dead so its up to us to soldier on and chuckle. (If you…
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				<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:35:26 +1300</pubDate>
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						Hmmmm I got an Oven glove.  Babybloke got a front tooth and a cold, however he thought enough of the story to bash the keyboard gleefully with a desert spoon (toy of the week).
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				<title>Graeme Edgeler</title>
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						<blockquote><p>And I got Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion, 2nd edition, which I have coveted ever since it came out.</p></blockquote><p><em>Cartoon Modern</em>  for me. Which is nice &ndash; I've been a fan of the 'blog for ages!</p><p><a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.cartoonbrew.com/</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:25:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ben Chapman</title>
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						<blockquote><p>And I got Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion, 2nd edition, which I have coveted ever since it came out.</p></blockquote><p>Ooh, good score. I used Stephanie's advice for glazing the Xmas ham.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:50:25 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						I vote "otterly" as  <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,1592,hard_news_public_address_word_of_the_year_credit_crunch.sm?p=86977#post86977" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the new awesome</a>.
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				<title>Deborah</title>
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						<p>I got a book with the standard mezzo-soprano musical literature, complete with sing-along CDs.  That will be nice for the neighbours.  And I got Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion, 2nd edition, which I have coveted ever since it came out.</p><p>The children didn't wake us up until 6.05am.</p>
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				<title>Bob Munro</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I got a gardening spade.</p></blockquote><p>Ditto: an orange one.</p>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						I got  the Ironclad gloves (for all the tough jobs) and a rather tall pottery sculpture that sways in the breeze and tinkles. Not sure who the Artist is, though I will find out. Cool. :)
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Yay! Bob-the-baby much better this morning. Christmas un-cancelled as of 10.02am GMT!</p></blockquote><p>Excellent! Merry Christmas all.</p><p>I got a Circulon wok. It is precious.</p>
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				<title>Deborah</title>
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						<p><strong>Critics' report</strong></p><p>I have just read it to my daughters.  Herewith their comments.</p><p>"I liked the bit where they all went, 'Oh Al-<em>bert</em>!' "</p><p>"I liked it when everyone got cheap fish dinners."</p><p>"I like it, but I couldn't figure out whether it was he was a cat or a…</p>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						Yay!  Bob-the-baby much better this morning.  Christmas un-cancelled as of 10.02am GMT!
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				<title>Deborah</title>
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						<blockquote><p>And it looks like (quite seriously) we're all too sick to have Christmas this year.</p></blockquote><p>Oh no!  And sick babies are such pathetic little things.  My commiserations to all three of you.</p><p>I'll be adding Albert Otter to our night-before-Christmas-reading.  Anything to distract <em>les filles</em>  from what they are rapidly…</p>
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				<title>Kyle Matthews</title>
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						<blockquote><p>And it looks like (quite seriously) we're all too sick to have Christmas this year.</p></blockquote><p>First it was "oh not enough of you bought our book so we had to eat gravel", now its "ohmigod we've got the plague".</p><p>I'm suspecting you just don't like Christmas.</p>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p>Sorry for slowness of response &mdash; we have a sick baby over here, alas.  And it looks like (quite seriously) we're all too sick to have Christmas this year.</p><p><strong>Isabel Hitchings</strong> and <strong>Paul Litterick</strong>: very glad that your young 'uns enjoyed the story.  Likewise glad that <strong>Sofie Bribiesca</strong> enjoyed it…</p>
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				<title>Isabel Hitchings</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I'm hoping he didn't print the comments.</p></blockquote><p>His father, who supervised the operation, assures me he didn't.</p>
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				<title>Jolisa</title>
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						<p>David, your problem is solved. If you write it, they will illustrate it.</p><p>He is a handsome chap. Note the relatively smooth trouser fronts. Definitely a Prince Albert.</p>
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				<title>Evan Yates</title>
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						<p>This Albert Otter sure is a handsome fulla! So regal and imposing!</p><p><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/3131256435_c8bac12f87_o.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Albert Otter Official Portrait</a></p>
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				<title>Jolisa</title>
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						<p>Otterly excellent story, by the way, David. </p><p>Did you consider having the Princess skate on the frozen Thames? That could work, what with otters being river-dwellers and all.  I doubt it will freeze again in our lifetime but poetic licence can and probably should make it so.</p><p>Amy, that picture…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Wahey! The kinky bugger. Still, a nice touch for the honeymoon.</p><p>(Sorry Kyle)</p></blockquote><p>I ... <strong>rofflenui'd!!</strong></p>
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						Man, I'm glad I didn't link to the Wikipedia page, if children are reading this. I'm still recovering from the picture.
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				<title>Jolisa</title>
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						<blockquote><p>and Albert became Prince Albert Otter.</p></blockquote><p>Wahey! The kinky bugger. Still, a nice touch for the honeymoon.</p><p>(Sorry Kyle)</p>
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				<title>Leigh  Kennaway</title>
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						<p><em>Ahh ...made me remember the film Ring of Bright Water as a tear came to my eye.</em></p><p>Aaahhhhh, deeply repressed memories of a school holiday matinee at the Ambassador picture theatre in Pt Chevalier.... myself and a load of other bawling children having our holiday ruined &ndash; or that day…</p>
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				<title>Paul Litterick</title>
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						Comments now available in Stereo.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:34:46 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Litterick</title>
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						And the children loved the story that  Uncle David  wrote for them. But then, somebody pressed the Discuss button...
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				<title>Paul Litterick</title>
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						And the children loved the story that  Uncle David  wrote for them. But then, somebody pressed the Discuss button...
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				<title>Sam F</title>
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						Am also gliding through the last two hours of work for 2008 &ndash; this was a delightful end to the working year. Wasn't prompted by the discussion of the finer points of children's literature in another PAS thread, by any chance? :)
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<blockquote><p>The seven-year-old liked that so much he insisted on printing it out to keep. The rest of us thought it was pretty nifty too.</p></blockquote><p>I'm hoping he didn't print the comments.</p>
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				<title>Isabel Hitchings</title>
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						The seven-year-old liked that so much he insisted on printing it out to keep. The rest of us thought it was pretty nifty too.
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				<title>Greg Dawson</title>
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						might i suggest, in keeping with other authors struck sketchless, the sheep-in-a-box approach &ndash; <a href="http://deji.chez.com/dessins/pp16.gif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">seen here</a>
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				<title>Amy Gale</title>
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						<p>Cutest otter ever ever ever is <a href="http://www.frigginrandom.com/images/i-have-an-otter-for-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p><p>Safe for work, although not safe for your street cred at work.</p>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						And, with that read and coffee drunk, I will glide through my last day of work until my holiday will begin(at about lunch). It's always a pleasure David. Thank you for wonderful funny writing that helped me alot this year. Merry to you and your Family :)
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				<title>Kyle Matthews</title>
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						<p>Otters are my favourite animals in the world. If I could have a couple in my backyard, I'd die happy.</p><p>I say this simply to note I'll now be ignoring every comment by Russell Brown on this thread in order to keep my mind clean and happy. Santa has just…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Too dark, too dark. Now you've spoilt it for me.</p></blockquote><p>Oops. Screeching is <em>also</em>  characteristic of selfless underwater otter rescues.</p>
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				<title>Richard Kyle</title>
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						Ahh ...made me remember the film Ring of bright water as a tear came to my eye.
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Screeching is characteristic of otter sex. They are supposed to do it in the water.</p></blockquote><p><em>Far below him, Albert could see the Princess struggling on the lake bottom &mdash; weighed down by her heavy skates. He dived,  </em> screeching, <em> towards her. </em></p><p><br />Too dark, too dark. Now you've spoilt…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/page2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Secrets</a> from the world of <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otter%20sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">otter sex</a>:</p><blockquote><p>To make sure that pups are born around April 1st, in otter mothers, and many other animal mothers for that matter, the implanting of embryos is delayed. That means an otter can have sex without immediate consequences.</p></blockquote><p>And we all know where <em>that</em>…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<blockquote><p>But when the sawfly larvae do it, it's like "Yeck, why did they ever ban DDT".</p></blockquote><p>That's because sawfly larvae don't have faces.</p><p>Not having a face just isn't cute.</p>
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				<title>David Haywood</title>
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						<p>It's funny how when the otter pups do the single mass thing it's like "Awwwww...".  But when the sawfly larvae do it, it's like "Yeck, why did they ever ban DDT?"</p><p>Mind you, I know which one's easier to draw.  And, come to think of it, Albert Sawfly Larva is…</p>
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						Poor Albert, growing up "out of species", unable to participate in that <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1153/1196439726_9476184860_b.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">single mass</a> thing that young otters do. A bit like some species of <a href="http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/none/sawfly2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sawfly larvae</a>.
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