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		<title>Happy third birthday to my blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today my blog is exactly three years old. My first ever blogpost was published here on 4th February 2009. So today is both a time for a little celebration as well as an occasion for some reflection on what I’ve written in the past as well as what might appear here in the coming year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Diamond Jubilee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee – it is sixty years since she ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom. Whilst the major celebratory events to mark Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee are planned to take place on the first weekend of June 2012, in hope they will benefit from warm, sunny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecumenical Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity takes place each year in the northern hemisphere, between 18th -25th January. On the evening of Monday 23rd January, Sybille and I, along with three other members of the St. Clement’s Anglican congregation, attended the main service held in Prague to mark this important week. This Ecumenical Service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prague – minus the tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday evening, Sybille and I took the tram from Podbaba to Vozovna Strešovice and from there, walked through the back lanes to Hradcanské namestí, the large square lying immediately to the west of Prague Castle. As we did so, the only other people we saw were a young couple who were walking the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter weather &amp; walks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is winter? It is a question I’ve been asking for several weeks. This time last year, there had been snow lying on the ground for about seven weeks. Until yesterday, when we finally had a few heavy snow showers, there had been no snow at all in Prague this winter. The temperature this evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Czech Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of 2011, I wrote a blogpost entitled ‘Why I like living in Prague’. Whilst I still stand by everything I wrote twelve months ago, I should really have also added, ‘Because it also allows you to very easily explore other parts of the Czech Republic’. Regular readers of this blog will know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam – 25/08/10 – 02/01/12 &#8211; At peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not the first blog post of 2012 that I wanted to write. After a long consultation with the vet, and an equally long discussion between Sybille and myself, we together took the very difficult decision last Monday morning, of having our dog Sam, put to sleep. Unfortunately, starting in mid-November 2011, Sam began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve 2011 in Prague</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m writing this on Christmas Eve, just a few hours before setting out from the Chaplaincy Flat to St Clement’s Anglican Episcopal Church in the centre of Prague, in order to celebrate our Christmas Midnight Eucharist which begins at 23.30 this evening. It is now dark and therefore in terms of the liturgical Church year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons and Carols in Brno</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in my previous post, last Sunday evening, 18th December 2011, the Prague Anglican congregation created a little bit of history by holding the first ever English-language Anglican service in Brno. In the appropriately named Betlémský Kostel / Bethlehem Chapel, we held a Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas. Brno is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Václav Havel – death of a statesman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Sunday 18th December, was a very significant day in the life of the Anglican Church here in the Czech Republic when we held our first ever service in Brno. However, just as I and five members of the Prague congregation were leaving Coffee Hour following our Sunday morning Eucharist in Prague in order to [...]]]></description>
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