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		<title>Top 5 Nonsense Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 5 most nonsense search strings that the search engines have sent people here to locate over the past month:


old girls in nappies on you tube
deed poll for diplomats illegitimate children
masturbation chippenham
nazi hose pipe torture
chimpfuck

People ain&#8217;t half weird.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top 5 most nonsense search strings that the search engines have sent people here to locate over the past month:</p>
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<li>chimpfuck</li>
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<p>People ain&#8217;t half weird.</p>
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		<title>Dear Frankie, Month 11</title>
		<link>http://jamesspratt.org/blog/2008/09/27/dear-frankie-month-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Frankie,
I know, I know, late again, but&#8230;
Daddy got a new job. This does mean that I&#8217;ll be away for weeks on end though which quite frankly &#8220;quite Frankie&#8221;, is not so cool. I would love to put you in my hand luggage with your head poking out the top and take you away with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Frankie,</p>
<p>I know, I know, late again, but&#8230;</p>
<p>Daddy got a new job. This does mean that I&#8217;ll be away for weeks on end though which quite frankly &#8220;quite Frankie&#8221;, is not so cool. I would love to put you in my hand luggage with your head poking out the top and take you away with me to these places, but alas - I am not looking forward to leaving you behind one jot.</p>
<p><strong>Stats</strong><br />
Height: 76.5cms<br />
Weight: 10.1kg - avid readers will notice a dent that this month&#8217;s stats have put in your growth graph. You actually lost 0.4kg this month. Careless. More food heading around your chops than in them?</p>
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<p><strong>Snippets</strong></p>
<p>The injuries continue - scratches on the back, bruise on the cheek, cut on the finger, grazes on the foot. Keep it together girl!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve both noticed that when we&#8217;re holding you, walking or just standing, you seem to adopt this additional chunk of confidence, even an air of authority about you. You&#8217;re confident as it is, but there&#8217;s a recognisable extra bit of &#8216;king of the castle&#8217; about you when you&#8217;re being held and surveying all around you.</p>
<p>Ed and Amber got engaged. Woohoo, well done them. Wrong order of doing these things surely but hey-ho, each to their own.</p>
<p>A great game you&#8217;ve come up with is to sit precariously on the step that leads outside to the terrace, and then throw your body on to the bean bag next to you. You&#8217;ll land then look around for Mummy or me to enjoy the moment with. We&#8217;ll smile and clap, encouraging any type of derring-do and tomfoolery. This needs to develop into a desire to skydive.</p>
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<p><strong>Sounds</strong></p>
<p>The most common sound you make is a bit weird. It sounds something like an impression of a coffee percolator from that TV advert a la 1987, only as a one or two second burst and it&#8217;s normally accompanied by the pointing finger(s). Do explain this to us one day.</p>
<p>My favourite vocal that you perform goes something like: &#8220;ahuahahuah&#8221;. This could well be a result of spending your first year in east London as it&#8217;s fairly siren-like. For entertainment value, I&#8217;ll go &#8220;ahuahahuah&#8221; to which you&#8217;ll reply &#8220;ahuahahuah&#8221;, then you look at me, I clap and you casually return to whatever it is I disturbed you from doing. In a similar way, sometimes when you snuggling down in a semi-comatose state, you&#8217;ll go &#8220;mmmm&#8221;, I&#8217;ll reply &#8220;mmmm&#8221;, you&#8217;ll reply &#8220;mmmm&#8221; etc. This can go on for about 20 replies back and forth. You will always be the one to finish it though.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve also taken to saying &#8220;ahhh&#8221; at the same time as flapping your tongue back and forth, giving that rather infantile &#8220;blah blah blah&#8221; sound. I mostly try and grab your tongue as you do it.</p>
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<p><strong>Movements</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s this thing you do which Nana first noticed when holding you and counting out your formula milk scoops. I&#8217;ll go &#8220;1,2,3,4,5&#8230;&#8221; and roughly by the time I get to 6, you&#8217;ve cocked your head round as much as possible so that you&#8217;re looking me, about four inches away from my face. It&#8217;s hilarious. So now we come up with various things that happen to need counting in order for you to perform this trick again for us. Yes, you are our toy.</p>
<p>You know what &#8220;No&#8221; means but very independently choose when to actually pay attention to its meaning. You&#8217;ll normally acknowledge our saying &#8220;No&#8221; with a vigorous head shaking action, then mostly carry on as you were. Still working on the nodding &#8220;Yes&#8221;.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s now become quite a regular gig of yours to wake briefly in the wee small hours. I&#8217;ll come and grab you, inhale a lungful or two of your sleepiness and bring you into bed with us. You&#8217;ll quickly and very easily return to the strangest version of slumber I&#8217;ve seen: It&#8217;s sleep, only you feel the need to align your body horizontally on the bed pushing us to each edge. Whoever is the lucky recipient of the feet (the FTSE 100s) will for a short while be repeatedly pushed against and if lucky, kick off one of your minor body convulsing tantrums. Quite often Mummy and I will look at each other in what little light there is and again try to stifle our laughing AT YOU. Crikey me, even when you&#8217;re being an arse you&#8217;re cute.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re about to move out of our first home and over to Maidenhead, we&#8217;re not particularly looking forward to leaving our home but it&#8217;s an opportunity we&#8217;d be silly  not to take up. Granny and Grandpa will soon be heading south to their African winter retreat and the flat in Bow is being let out. All change please, all change.</p>
<p>Loving you,</p>
<p>Daddy x</p>
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		<title>Clock Screensaver</title>
		<link>http://jamesspratt.org/blog/2008/09/23/clock-screensaver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>2 Bed Flat to Let in Hastings, Available 01.11.2008</title>
		<link>http://jamesspratt.org/blog/2008/09/23/2-bed-flat-to-let-in-hastings-available-01112008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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2 good sized double bedrooms
Modern bathroom and kitchen
Gas central heating
Large lounge
2 minutes from town centre
2nd / top floor flat
Entry phone system
Street parking
Unfurnished
£580 pcm

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<li>2 good sized double bedrooms</li>
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<li>Gas central heating</li>
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<li>2nd / top floor flat</li>
<li>Entry phone system</li>
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<li>Unfurnished</li>
<li>£580 pcm</li>
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		<title>HP at the FCO</title>
		<link>http://jamesspratt.org/blog/2008/09/19/hp-at-the-fco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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After a brief interlude (read: bored shitless after 2 days at home, thumbs sufficiently twiddled) I now have a new contract, started this Monday. Currently  I&#8217;m based just outside sunny Milton Keynes which means nearly 2 hours commute each way. I had heard about this project a couple of years ago and there&#8217;s due to [...]]]></description>
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After a brief interlude (read: bored shitless after 2 days at home, thumbs sufficiently twiddled) I now have a new contract, started this Monday. Currently  I&#8217;m based just outside sunny Milton Keynes which means nearly 2 hours commute each way. I had heard about this project a couple of years ago and there&#8217;s due to be lots of travel involved which on the one hand is all pretty exciting, but on the other, it won&#8217;t be great being away from the girls. But needs must. First stop at the end of October: Berlin.</p>
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