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	<title>Home is a Four-Letter Word</title>
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		<title>The Big Door Theory Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And then came the installation of the door handles. I, cocksure since I had fairly easily installed two other handles, allotted 15 minutes to each of the other two to be installed. An hour later I was still on the first. Bloody complicated little contraptions, door handles. But the thing that got me wasn&#8217;t the complexity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/04/the-big-door-theory-part-2/</link>
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		<title>The Big Door Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An impromptu DIY date night. (Yeh, remember them? It&#8217;s been a while.) We had had doors idly leaning against a wall on our patio for too long. Hubby said it was time to install them. (Yeh, kind of ironic, no? He&#8217;s not exactly swift with his own DIY projects, my Hubby.) Why had I put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/04/the-big-door-theory/</link>
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		<title>Meet Gail Roberts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this woman, this artist, this presence here in Tucson and her name is Gail T. Roberts and she&#8217;s, in my opinion, pretty fab. I visited her pop-arty house and turned it into a feature. It wasn&#8217;t difficult; who has pink papier mache pigs hanging from the ceiling? Her garage is a studio where very talented people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/04/meet-gail-roberts/</link>
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		<title>Sweet Sweetpea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweepea, the other day: &#8220;Me and my friends have decided on the ideal husband.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Oh yeah? Do tell.&#8221; I am expecting a description of a mash-up of Johnny Depp (yes, the guy gets the tween vote as well as the middle-aged-mother vote), Nick Jonas, and Robert Pattison. But no. She: &#8220;A guy with a gay brother. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/04/sweet-sweetpea/</link>
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		<title>knackered.com*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[* Knackered being a British term for very, very tired. Today was Day 2 of my &#8220;oh-God-if-I-don&#8217;t-do-something-drastic-soon-I will-become-the-size-of-a-house&#8221; regime, one which entails lots of fruits and vegetables, lots less bread, more exercise, and missing Cadbury&#8217;s Mini Eggs like mad. I got two jump starts last night. One was that Hubby took so long to prepare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/04/knackered-com/</link>
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		<title>Spring fever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday we had hail and, in parts, snow. on Tuesday, grim coldness again. On Wednesday it was a gorgeous 70 degrees, and it&#8217;s been climbing since. I don&#8217;t mean to sound like a scene from the Sound of Music or anything, but I adore this team of year in Tucson. The smell of orange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/03/spring-fever/</link>
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		<title>Why I will never be a &#8220;soccer mom&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little rant.. if you&#8217;ll indulge me. My issue is this: the everyone&#8217;s-a-winner attitude some &#8211; in fact, a lot of &#8211; parents have with their kids. I can&#8217;t work out if it&#8217;s just a North American thing (I haven&#8217;t parented anywhere else, so it&#8217;s hard to know). I do suspect that in my native Britain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/03/a-rant/</link>
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		<title>Tween or no?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweetpea never fails to keep me on my toes. One minute she&#8217;s Tween Girl, all about the shopping and the iPod and the texting back and forth to pals with a &#8216;ya&#8217; and a thousand &#8216;OMGs&#8217;. Next she&#8217;s back to being a little kid again. But then I suppose that&#8217;s the definition of Tween: in between kid and teen. So it&#8217;s been during our trip to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/03/tween-or-no/</link>
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		<title>Crazy, hazy, smoky days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I allowed to be so decadent? Only back from NYC 10 days and I&#8217;m off again&#8230; this time with Sweetpea. I&#8217;m on a promise, you see. Promised her a long time ago that I would take her to see some Broadway shows. So I and the lil&#8217; wannabe actress will hit the theatres (and shops) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/03/crazy-hazy-smoky-days/</link>
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		<title>I &#8216;heart&#8217; New York (and just about any city)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With such frenzy on the home front, and me running the risk of crashing the car if I didn’t get a decent night’s sleep, there was nothing for it but to escape. Thank you to my parents for that. Their presence meant childcare and doggy-walking were covered whilst Hubby and I hopped a flight (actually, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gilliandrummond.net/2012/03/i-heart-new-york-and-just-about-any-city/</link>
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