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		<title>Heroes: No#2. Neil Armstrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.2 in an occasional Series It&#8217;s long been a given, that the next installment in my series on personal heroes would have to be an astronaut. The only reason I chose to put Babbage in pole position was to avoid the blindingly obvious. The dilemma was always which one. Well the events of recent days, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goin&#8217; Down Slow</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/07/06/goin-down-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Circumstances seem to call for a good blues. And this is a VERY good blues which sum it all up rather succinctly. Over to you Wolf&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news travels fast</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/07/06/bad-news-travels-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting here eying up a large paper parcel. My latest haul of drugs from the Island pharmacy. When I picked them up this morning the girl behind the counter quipped that I&#8217;ve just about cleaned them out. It certainly looks that way. I&#8217;m pretty sure I hold more inventory than they do right now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A live report from the front line.</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/04/19/a-live-report-from-the-front-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. I know from the phone-calls and texts that everyone is keen to know the results of the recent scan. Long story short. They weren&#8217;t great. We went in hoping for the best, but prepared for the worse, and I suppose what we ended up with was somewhere in-between. In spite of eight rounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shake vigorously for twenty seconds</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/04/13/shake-vigorously-for-thirty-seconds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, apologies for being offline for so long. To be honest, I really just haven&#8217;t felt like writing. Or doing much else for that matter. I think the chemo is finally catching up with me, and the last couple of cycles have been a bit tougher. Nothing dramatic, just an accumulations of minor ailments and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary Fault</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/28/temporary-fault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Normal transmissions will be resumed as soon as possible. Do not adjust your set.]]></description>
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		<title>The Etiquette of Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/13/the-etiquette-of-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How are you?&#8217; It&#8217;s an innocent enough question, but one I&#8217;ve come to dread. Here&#8217;s the problem. After six months of being in the cancer club, I&#8217;m starting to loose track of who I have told and who I haven&#8217;t. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve made any great secret of the fact, quite the opposite. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Lesson in Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when I first started to work in the advertising industry, we used to have this thing called The Overnight Test. It worked like this: My creative partner Laurence and I would spend the day covering A2 sheets torn from layout pads with ideas for whatever project we were currently engaged upon &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes: No#1. Charles Babbage</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/02/20/heroes-no1-charles-babbage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.1 of an Occasional Series Anyone with even a scrap of imagination or ambition has heroes. Individuals who&#8217;s lives and deeds have influenced, informed or inspired our own. The nature and calling of our heroes has changed over the years &#8211; a century ago, they were military figures and explorers, Nelson, Clive of India, Shackleton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost WONDERFUL</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/02/18/almost-wonderful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I had my regular assessment meeting at the Cancer Unit prior to starting my fifth cycle of chemo. It&#8217;s become quite routine now. We pitch up at the reception desk where the relentlessly cheerful Mrs. Buckwheat checks me off on her list and hands me a clipboard with a Biro attached by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Islands and Granfalloons</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/02/04/of-islands-and-granfalloons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Now that I come to think about it. It was inevitable that I would wind up living on an island. Not necessarily this island. But some island. I was born by the sea in the West-Country of England, and apart from my student years in London, I have never lived more than a stones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s too short for&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/30/lifes-too-short-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about that old, multi-purpose expression &#8220;Life&#8217;s too short&#8221; the other day. You know, life&#8217;s too short for drinking bad wine, life&#8217;s too short for standing in line, life&#8217;s too short for _____________________________(Complete as appropriate.) When life suddenly turns out to be shorter than you could have reasonably anticipated, this tired old cliche [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking off the game face</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/25/taking-off-the-game-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in the interests of fair reporting and factual accuracy, I&#8217;m going to set aside my usual, practiced sunny disposition and unfeasibly optimistic outlook for a moment and have a good winge. I am after all I am a Pom and it is my birthright. I feel crap. Shite. Buggered and, to use an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Good. Feeling Bad. And learning to spot the difference.</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/16/feeling-good-feeling-bad-and-learning-to-spot-the-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/16/feeling-good-feeling-bad-and-learning-to-spot-the-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How are you feeling today? It&#8217;s an incredibly subtle and delicate business. Trying to detect and quantify the daily changes in my mental and physical condition. As I&#8217;ve observed before, the first big lesson to learn is that cancer is, by and large, a slow, drawn out affair. Nothing happens over-night. At least if it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Imagined Conversation with the Bus-Stop Messiah</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/11/an-imagined-conversation-with-the-bus-stop-messiah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/01/11/an-imagined-conversation-with-the-bus-stop-messiah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bus Stop Messiah is a real character. He hangs around the bus stop over the road from the hospital with a cardboard sign promising &#8220;CANCER HELP!&#8221; I&#8217;ve only spoken to him once briefly, a few weeks ago and haven&#8217;t seen him since, but I can&#8217;t get him out of my head. I hope I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Cup of Kindnes Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/31/take-a-cup-of-kindnes-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/31/take-a-cup-of-kindnes-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I have posted anything, so I am writing more to alleviate a nagging sence of guilt and obligation, rather than because I have anything particularly pressing to say. So, this is an un-rehearsed stream-of-consciousness ramble which may or may not lead anywhere interesting or useful. You have been warned. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C is also for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/24/c-is-also-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/24/c-is-also-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Christmas Evre. I got the results from my CT scan on Monday. Acording my oncologist, my primary tumour is visibly smaler after two cycles of chemo. Merry Christmas everyone.]]></description>
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		<title>Pumping Iron</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/20/pumping-iron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well here I am, reporting live again from the Acute Oncology Dept. of picturesque Auckland Hospital. It&#8217;s coming up for 12.30 pm and I&#8217;m four hours into my iron infusion. I&#8217;m here to tell you it&#8217;s really not the most thrilling of procedures, but for the sake of accurate and complete reporting, I&#8217;ll give you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another fly in the ointment</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/14/another-fly-in-the-ointment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/14/another-fly-in-the-ointment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lindsredding.com/?p=564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m grumpy today. And frustrated. Right now I should be sitting in my favorite big green viynal lay&#8217;z'boy in the corner of the oncology day-stay center being pumped full of vicious, cancer killing chemicals. Instead I&#8217;m cooling my heals here at home on a humid, windy, overcast Wednesday afternoon. I&#8217;ve been bumped for another week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where there&#8217;s a will</title>
		<link>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/08/where-theres-a-will/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lindsredding.com/2011/12/08/where-theres-a-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Lindsey Peter Redding, being of sound mind and body&#8230; Hmmm. A sound mind? Well that&#8217;s debateable, and as far a sound body, well hardly. Right now my body is about as sound as a 1972 Trabant. Today we made our wills. It wouldn&#8217;t have been my first choice of diversion for a sunny December [...]]]></description>
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