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		<title>The danger of purely relying on spelling checkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my most recent post that has attracted both a considerable number of comments and also aroused a little bit of controversy, here is a funny poem on a related theme. A reminder that spelling checkers have their limitations. Eye halve a spelling chequer, It came with my pea sea, It plainly marques four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My blogging and online philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I started writing this blog more than three years ago, I have always sought to recognise three important things. Firstly, I am a native first-language English-speaker. Secondly, I am an expatriate, living in a foreign country – in my case, the Czech Republic. Thirdly, I am a Christian minister – an Anglican priest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberation Day – 8th May 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[8th May 1945]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nazis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a public holiday here in the Czech Republic, as it is in several other European countries. The public holiday marks the ending of World War Two, sixty-seven years ago, on 8th May 1945. I took the photograph on the left today. It is of a statue that stands in Námestí Interbrigády, a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rivalries within small states &amp; nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bohemia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1970 when I was just eighteen years old, I went off to see the world and emigrated from England to live in the Australian island state of Tasmania. As well as being a formative experience, one thing I discovered whilst living there, really surprised me. Despite Tasmania having at that time, a population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vltava River</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bedrich Smetana]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The longest river wholly within the Czech Republic is the Vltava, known to Germans as the Moldau. It rises in the Šumava mountains near the Austrian border and then flows north through the centre of Prague going on further north to join the Labe/Elbe at Melník. The Vltava was portrayed musically, by the nineteenth century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Day worship in Prague and Brno</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was Rector of the Shelswell Group of Parishes in North Oxfordshire, quite frequently on Sundays, I would officiate at three services during the day – and occasionally at four. Certainly on Easter Day, I would always celebrate the Eucharist three times during the morning, in three different Churches, at 08.00, 09.15 and 10.45. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Wedding celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am the youngest of three children. My eldest sister June, is nearly nine years my senior. On Saturday 31st March 1962, at the tender age of eighteen, June married my brother-in-law Garry, the wedding taking place at Warwick Road Congregational (now United Reformed) Church in Coventry. The picture on the left is of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaccurate assumptions about the Prague Anglican Congregation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time-to-time I get emails, or comments here on my blog, each of which make wholly inaccurate assumptions about the Prague Anglican congregation that I serve as Chaplain. So this post is intended to explode a few myths and instead, try to paint a more accurate picture. We are the Brits abroad – Wrong! Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My first wedding of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday 3rd March, I conducted my first wedding of 2012 when Petr, a Czech, married Kristin, an American. The wedding took place at St. Clement’s Church with a congregation made up of Petr’s Czech relatives, a small number of Kristin’s American relatives, together with numerous mutual friends. This wedding presented all the usual problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Czenglish corrected!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, 29th February, I was walking past a newly renovated building at the western end of Klimentská, the street in which St. Clement&#8217;s Church is located, when I spotted the graphic design work illustrated in the photograph on the left above, with the blatant misspelling of the word &#8216;coming&#8217;. Later that evening, I posted [...]]]></description>
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