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		<title>Time to cheer up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of grumping and grizzling recently, I thought I'd better lighten up a bit
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<p>After a long bout of illness and general malaise, thanks to a particularly persistent bug.</p>
<p>Combined with a general case of the blues bought on by all the crap news and weather&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; I thought it was about time I lightened up a bit.</p>
<p>So armed with pen and paper, I decided to start this momentous undertaking by making a list of some of the things that make me smile (in no particular order).</p>
<h2>30 things that make me smile</h2>
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