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	<title>Merry Christmas &#187; England, the English and Village Life</title>
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		<title>A New Miss Read for Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Or, more accurately, by Miss Read (Dora Saint) and her long-time editor, Jenny Dereham.  But it is a Thrush Green story, with all of our favourite characters and the daily village dramas that Miss Read fans love.
If you&#8217;ve never read a Miss Read book before, this is a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=276&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wedding, the Ex-Wife and the Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve found myself&#8211;  sometimes standing in the living room, sometimes during a walk, sometimes while reading, sometimes lying in bed late at night&#8211; I&#8217;ve found myself reflecting on the happiness of my life, the contentment I feel, and the fact that every single day I feel a deeper connection to and love for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=255&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As She Wanted It (after Death)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 10:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2009, Ramona K Silipo. All rights reserved.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a group of friends and acquaintances gathered annually on Christmas Eve. We decorated a tree, ate a fabulous feast, caught up –some of us saw each other only at this gathering– and told stories. Late in the evening, when the house was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=233&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Women&#8217;s Insitutute (WI) published a small book in 2007, Practical Know-how at Christmas. Along with the hints, they included some timeless quotations about the holiday. Here are some of them:
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  (Anonymous)
Life is much like Christmas &#8212; you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=155&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quaker Retreat Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
One of the qualities of Friends that attracted me was spontaneity.  Another was the all-encompassing participatory nature of Quaker activities. It took me much of this weekend to realize that this was the reason I was so uncomfortable at the retreat; but I finally recognized that I was peculiarly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=138&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Village in Summer</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/the-village-in-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, RKSilipo. All rights reserved.
Today I stepped out of the village shop and post office and was face to face with a horse. Three horses in fact.  Here the kids ride horses, not bicycles, during summer vacation. The horses were smallish, not gorgeous quarter horses but sturdy farm horses.  The girls mounted and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=123&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart of England: Stratford-upon-Avon and Coventry</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/a-weekend-in-warwickshire-stratford-and-coventry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, RKSilipo. All rights reserved.
At the end of May, my husband and I took a weekend trip to &#8220;Shakespeare country&#8221;  It&#8217;s only about an hour and half&#8217;s drive, but we meandered a bit, took our time and enjoyed country roads with gorgeous vistas in every direction. The weather was hot, so we decided not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=114&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Village Life: Miss Read&#8217;s People and Places</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/village-life-miss-reads-people-and-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 09:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©RKSilipo. All rights reserved.
Summer is less than a month away, so I go to my book shelves and check that Miss Read is where I think she is, ready for my annual visits to Fairacre and Thrush Green. I re-visit Caxley as well, but not quite as often. 
I love these books and cannot recommend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=103&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>England: Moving to the Village</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/england-moving-to-the-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008 Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
&#60;&#62;&#60;&#62;&#60;&#62;
21 September &#8211; Harlow, but finally getting ready to move house
I&#8217;m furiously making lists of things to do and trying to get appointments  with people to come to the new house to give quotes for jobs, looking up movers in the phone book to get quotes from them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=75&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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