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		<title>Wollombi Valley Online Stories</title>
		<description>Stories from the Wollombi and Hunter Valleys</description>
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		<copyright>Wollombi Valley Online</copyright>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nightmare country]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[When you finally settle on your piece of rural paradise, build your home with your own hands, landscape your gardens and get to know the wildlife neighbours- you expect to enjoy the peace and quiet for the rest of your lives, right? Wrong, if there's coal in the area.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/812</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:53 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mental health group support]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, my attention was directed to the Singleton Mental Health Support Group. I plucked up the courage to go along, and have been to two meetings.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/815</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:04 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Gaye from the Hunter]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[The fragmentation of NSW]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[When the NSW Government first released its State Plan, I gave it the credit to take it seriously. I first analysed social and economic trends within New England to create a framework for the analysis of the Plan itself. I then looked at the structure and detail of the Plan itself and compared this with my analysis of New England's needs.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/813</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:00 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Giving up the garden]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Lately, with the aytpically tropical afternoon storms and heat, the grass had been growing at such a rate that I couldn't keep up with it. I had to wait until afternoon before it was dry enough to mow and by then it would be raining again.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/780</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:34 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[History blogs 1]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[While this blog focuses on New England history, I have been thinking for a while that I should broaden it a little to include references to other history blogs that I enjoy. This will also help keep me reading more widely.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/814</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:02 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wallaroo couple]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The longhairs of the macropods around here are the Wallaroos. I have always had one small family or a couple here, and they prefer the rocky edges, usually only coming close to drink at the dam. But lately the couple have been grazing near the fence line.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/773</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:06 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[School of life]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Throughout the healing process of getting on top of depression, I've learnt to step back and observe myself in detail as my life unfolds.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/776</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:40 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Gaye from the Hunter]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bush bounty]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[I don't plant annuals, so my garden is never the riot of colour that others manage. I rely on bushes and bulbs to surprise me with blossoms.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/774</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:33 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[History of the New England New State Movement 2 - defining New England]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[In a comment on History of the New England New State Movement 1 - scope of work, Peter Firminger from Wollombi Valley Online pointed me to a web site that I had forgotten. The site itself has, I think, vanished. Certainly I had not been able to find it. However, it survives in web archive form.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/762</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:12 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[At the edge of the world]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The view from the inside of a cloud does not extend very far. Today, past the first dim line of trees, I see no mountain ridges or rainforest gullies or even eucalypt forest. They might no longer exist.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/775</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[History of the New England New State Movement 1 - scope of work]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[In January 2010 in Hunter Valley calls for a Northern NSW New State I referred to comments from the Hunter calling for the re-formation of the New England New State Movement. As I indicated a little later in Wikipedia and the history of New England, there is almost no decent material on line dealing with the history of the Movement. I think that that's a problem.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/758</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:06 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Newcastle, Armidale and the process of community renewal]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Armidale. The city then had a small, compact downtown centred on three Beardy Street blocks. Newcastle was and remains New England's big city. Visiting Newcastle as a child, I found the downtown area with its ships, trains and shops quite fascinating after Armidale's small scale. The nearby BHP steel works (BHP was so big in Newcastle terms that it was just called the BHP) added to the fascination.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/749</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:20 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kookaburra kingdom]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[This photo of a vigilant kookaburra on my yard gate suits this extract from the chapter on Kookaburras in my book, Mountain Tails:]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/750</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:23 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Arty nature]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The significance of ultra-abstract art often eludes me; I might appreciate it as design and colour, but it doesn't speak to me. I don't warm to it, relate to it, as I can to the merely abstracted, stylised, simplified, where the origin is vaguely discernible. In the latter the artist's treatment of it stimulates my imagination more than straight realism would.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/744</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:58 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Sharyn Munro]]></author>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Magic Carpet Giveaway 2010]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm giving away my Magic Carpet journal. With its luxurious paste paper covers, exotic 16 needle Coptic binding with Celtic overtones and 216 pages, it's just waiting to be filled with your thoughts, dreams and desires.]]></description>
			<link>http://wollombi.nsw.au/stories/read/745</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03 +1000</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[Carol Cantrell]]></author>
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