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	<description>The official blog of Stuart Vallantine, the Travelling Poet</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Not So Perfect 10: Hitting the High Notes</title>
		<link>http://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/the-not-so-perfect-10-hitting-the-high-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In praise of the falsetto vocalist
Greetings Pop Pickers, I have chosen a most unusual subject for this installment of &#8216;The Not So Perfect 10.
Everybody of a musical persuasion or intense knowledge of popular culture may list the 10 Best Beatles songs or ice cream flavours.&#160; This one will concentrate on that staple of most successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not So Perfect 10: Forgotten Saturday Night Television Programmes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have purchased a book entitled &#8216;The Encyclopaedia of Classic Saturday Night Television&#8217;.  As well as mentioning the usual suspects (The Generation Game, Gladiators and Game For A Laugh) it also states (almost) every programme Bobby Davro appeared in and flops like Ice Warriors.
The book is a rivetting read, though I would consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dukinfield Bank Holiday bus services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[346 to gain Bank Holiday service for the first time since 2000!
For the first time since GM Buses was split into three (the third being Charterplan, moving to East Yorkshire Motor Services), Dukinfield now has some semblance of a decent bus network over the Bank Holiday period.
In line with First, Arriva and some independent companies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Last! A &#8216;Friends&#8217; for the Geek Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Big Bang Theory&#8217;, Channel 4, Thursdays 2200 hours
After a rather crappy day yesterday, I found myself lifted by the introduction of a new sitcom on Channel 4.
Débuting yesterday, The Big Bang Theory is a 13 part sitcom about two above average male physicists living in an apartment opposite a new female resident (who in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not So Perfect 10: Hummable 1980s TV Themes</title>
		<link>http://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/the-not-so-perfect-10-hummable-1980s-tv-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you&#8217;re looking for trouble&#8230; you&#8217;ve found the right place&#8230;&#8221; - Elvis Presley
Hello again, I&#8217;m back with some more fluff.  As well as being an unrivalled source on the state of Dukinfield&#8217;s bus services, I&#8217;ve decided to plonk a more fun post.  I have resurrected &#8216;The Not So Perfect 10&#8242; format with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Strangeroute (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bus)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the local bus (almost) saved me from commuting worries

In the last two weeks, most of us UK residents will have known about the flood affecting the North West and Yorkshire areas.  This has obviously had a profound effect on the railways within Lancashire and Yorkshire (mainly services travelling between Huddersfield and Leeds), with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dukinfield bus service changes: double whammy hits Albion Hotel area</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good, the downright obvious and the ugly

343 service retained and rerouted;
Sunday evening 220 withdrawn;
Monday - Saturday 419 (Stalybridge - Dukinfield - Ashton) withdrawn;
Minor changes on Monday - Saturday 220 and 221 route.

Between October 2007 and the 27th January 2008, the number of journeys between the Albion Hotel/Morrisons and Stalybridge town centre will have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, New Increases, Old Grumblers</title>
		<link>http://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/new-year-new-increases-old-grumblers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bus and rail fare squabblefest
Can&#8217;t you tell that the New Year has started already?  Two days into the year, our blessed transport companies let New Year in by issuing a 5 - 15% fares increase on its passengers.
As sure as &#8216;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8217; would remain in the Top Ten of All Time UK chart No. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to Cheer About This Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[East of the M60 Exclusive Review:
Countdown 2007 Grand Final, Friday 21 December 2007
Never mind special Christmas soap opera story lines, never mind all these &#8216;lets talk about how good the telly was in 1980&#8242; type programmes, this Christmas period&#8217;s televisual treat started at 3.25pm on Channel 4.
For the first time in years, I watched &#8216;Countdown&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alternative Christmas Reading List</title>
		<link>http://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/the-alternative-christmas-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is coming, repeats are fast looming, as people in Argos are still queueing and awaiting their number - some twenty minutes later&#8230;
As eventual as death and taxation, the terrestrial television will face another repetition of Bonds from Moore to Dalton, and furniture adverts.
Rant over.
(The blogger is taking deep breaths)
More to the point, I have [...]]]></description>
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