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	<title>Becoming Self Sufficient. Towards self sufficiency</title>
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		<title>Introducing The Neighbour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting 18 months or so for our family, but life has always been a bit of an adventure. At the moment I feel incredibly lucky that we have found this place to live with our chosen neighbours near a really great little town. I sometimes feel overwhelmed by how much we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/07/introducing-the-neighbour/</link>
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		<title>My neighbour brought me soup&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a comical day of lost debit cards, cancelled karate class, dashings to hand over keys, husband away on business, stuck chickens, a closed library, dentists and toilet training a small person I arrived home with three tired children and a low personal ebb. As I opened my car door my next door neighbour walked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/07/my-neighbour-brought-me-soup/</link>
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		<title>Electric Brompton Road Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background I’ve not regularly cycled since I left London 4 years ago. There I would commute circa 10 miles a day on my cheapy Raleigh hybrid. Since moving to our current house I tried my new commute once on the aforementioned cheapy Raleigh and it was horrendous. The (big) hill home nearly killed me and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/07/electric-brompton-road-test/</link>
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		<title>Resilience: personal preparation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe it was George Orwell that once said: &#8220;The best books are those that tell you what you know already&#8221; (or something along those lines). Well I was certainly nodding along in agreement when I recently read the Post Carbon Institute&#8217;s latest blog post entitled Resilience: Personal Preperation where an essay of the same name by Chris Martenson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/07/resilience-personal-preparation/</link>
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		<title>Unicivilisation Festival &#8211; Edited Highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the recent bank holiday weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the Dark Mountain Project&#8216;s Uncivilisation festival in Llangollen, Wales. I had a really great time and I met lots of interesting and friendly people who had all come together to discuss options for &#8211; as the website puts it &#8211; &#8220;a challenging and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/06/unicivilisation-festival/</link>
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		<title>The Dark Mountain Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching with a great deal of interest the build-up to the upcoming Dark Mountain Project festival Uncivilisation in Llangollen over the May bank holiday weekend. When I first read it their project&#8217;s description it really made me sit up as I&#8217;ve not seen such a level of pragmatism, or do I mean realism, voiced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/04/the-dark-mountain-project/</link>
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		<title>Moving to Wales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since deciding to leave our current home we&#8217;ve been under some pressure to find somewhere to live that is affordable, has land, possibly space for our neighbours (so we can share the load and not feel so isolated) and ideally a woodland nearby. We&#8217;ve looked at a lot of properties, 100s online and then a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/02/moving-to-wales/</link>
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		<title>Woodland Wanted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a huge disappointment over the weekend. 32 acres of woodland came up in Pembrokeshire on Thursday afternoon. Friday 8:30am straight after the kids were on the school bus we drove up there (after calling the agent to check it was still on) by 2:30pm I was stomping around it thinking where I could put a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/02/woodland-wanted/</link>
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		<title>Game Ending Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I read with some dismay yet another polarised argument about climate change between a &#8216;denier&#8217; and a &#8216;scaremonger&#8217;. Irrespective of my own view of the subject &#8211; which incidentally comes down firmly on the side of pragmatism. I don&#8217;t give a monkey&#8217;s if I&#8217;m proved wrong in 20 years time; let&#8217;s not take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/02/possibly-game-ending-issues/</link>
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		<title>Long overdue update (and plans for 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello and Happy New Year. Firstly an apology is due. We have been rather quiet of late mostly because we&#8217;ve been doing rather than thinking which has made a refreshing change but as I sit here with the kids gaffer taped up in the corner after a 4th day off school because of the light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingselfsufficient.org.uk/2010/01/long-overdue-update-and-plans-for-2010/</link>
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