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		<title>Down the road and up the gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hot, hot never wavered during our whole stay. Deplaning the first afternoon, walking down the stairs to the tarmac the heat just bowled us over and scattered our senses. Sun is absolute, a monarch, a force unto itself. Three weeks is insufficient time to acclimatize to its intensity. There are opportunities for relief though. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Big ONE for Nellie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was number one day for Nellie-Rose. She&#8217;s marking 365 days of survival with her family &#8211; extended and immediate. For this alone she deserves a medal. Then there&#8217;s the cross continent, time and climate zone gallivanting with 12 and 14 hour travel days and 20° temperature variations. Finally there is all the nonsense, discord [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where kindness abounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our Barbados days were about to set for good we came to appreciate the warmth of spontaneous kindness. It seemed to be all around us like the sun sparkle on sea &#8211; bright and shiny, quick to move about. Countless times our lives were made easier on the spot by a stranger giving of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=973&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out and About</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering we were on vacation, our dosage of politics was quite high. There were the US Presidential debates, the leadership debates for Canada&#8217;s federal election and the daily media reports on matters political in Barbados and the region. I watched the second Obama &#8211; McCain face-off out of the corner of my eyes from my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=946&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that a girthful, monkey bread bearing baobab and kiting coastal frigate birds updrafting to higher heights are Barbados memories that went AWOL on me. They are not alone, there&#8217;s the fishing village close on Brandon&#8217;s with fine people, rum shops and limes with friends as well as the faces and names [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=679&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The white sands of Dover</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/the-white-sands-of-dover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last week, Dover Beach took the prize as the runaway favourite swimming and sunning spot. Beachside parking available for early arrivals, good mix of locals and tourists, shade, shade, shade, sandy bottom, easy rolling waves with occasional crashers, water depth increasing gradually over 200 &#8211; 300 metres and a small convenience store just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=793&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All afraid now &#8211; the big scare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning our hearts sputtered, stuttered, stopped for what seemed an eternity. Nellie woke up at her standard Barbados middle of the night feeding time. We stumbled through our by now familiar bleary eyed routine &#8211; Mélanie downstairs to warm the milk, papa rocking and snuggling our little girl. When the milk is ready I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=770&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turtles, mangroves, and TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of the underwater world, and it&#8217;s facing its own challenges, wild Barbados is just about gone. A centuries long monoculture, small land mass, growing population and a very high intake of tourists all place a signficant strain on the island&#8217;s ecosystems. Barbados&#8217; fringing reefs are bubbling with life. Glass bottom boats are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=703&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Round and roundabout we go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The morning chorale of cock crows caroms from yard to yard &#8211; an avian call and answer as neighbourhood roosters puff up and let loose. They&#8217;re at it from 3h00 with brief sign offs filled by crickets, operatic frogs and yabbering, yapping guard dogs owned by just about every household. The cocks of the walk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=631&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which way did summer go?</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/which-way-did-summer-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Smith Cordeau family has packed up and headed south. We were feeling just a touch jilted by the summer that never was. We&#8217;re not really complaining though because we played in some Pacific coast sun in May and are now feeling the heat under Caribbean skies. This illustration pretty accurately captures our mood, excitement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=604&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t we see the wind?</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/why-cant-we-see-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we hopped in the car ocean bound in search of wind. The air was breathless still in our yard as we readied to go &#8211; not a blade of grass in motion, not a whisper of leaves to be heard. On the trip out for what I hoped would be our first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=541&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boppin&#8217; and Belly Back Slides</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/boppin-and-belly-back-slides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of dancing around our house the past few days. It&#8217;s Noah&#8217;s spontaneous groovin&#8217; to the beat. When he gets fired up, toes tapping, hips swivelling and wiggling he likes to get maman and papa out on the floor. The three of us let loose together sometimes with the little Nellie-Rose doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=493&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy times in Hiatusville</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/crazy-times-in-hiatusville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hit the snooze button on 180 Days of Magic 3 weeks ago. It wasn&#8217;t planned that way. It just had to happen. Some serious time was required to conclude business on the house selling and home moving fronts. A word of caution if you&#8217;re contemplating a move with small children in the under 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=444&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home alone &#8211; the sequel</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/home-alone-the-sequel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well we didn&#8217;t do 2 consecutive days with dad and kidlets home alone. I think we were very wise to slip in a buffer Wednesday. This gave the Noah and Nellie a chance to enjoy maman&#8217;s softer, nurturing side. As an added bonus the kids were able to recover from our solo day before being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=417&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home alone</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/home-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are just short, a smidge shy of madness &#8211; long days, abbreviated nights, legalese, realtese. For days on end we&#8217;ve been stuffing years of accumulated possessions in boxes for transmigration, or in plastic bags for friendly curbside pick up with final destination incineration, or the landfill. We&#8217;re cleaning out this old house and nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=380&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In my arms</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/in-my-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we switched on the iTunes visualizer for wee Nellie-Rose. She was somewhere between happy and not &#8211; fussed enough to refuse her food, present enough to lean into a gentle caress. Her new baby smell went the way of the winter melt but her arms wrapped around my neck and her snuggling forehead nestling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=361&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crawl, climb and crash</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/crawl-climb-and-crash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minute hand has tracked well past midnight and I&#8217;m tuckered, tired and ready to crash, I need to write a little though before I hit the sack for a few sweet sleep deep hours. We&#8217;ve been preparing for a big move almost since we arrived home from Québec 3 weeks ago. We&#8217;re just about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=335&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playground Tagging</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/playground-tagging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be great if you could go on line and get information about local playgrounds. I&#8217;m thinking of a comprehensive round up for your community, photos of the equipment, public transit routes serving the site, an activities schedule, age groups for which the equipment is intended, by-laws around usage, leashed, unleashed, or no dogs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=313&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sing me a song, play me a tune</title>
		<link>http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/247/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a favourite guitar riff, a rolling, cresting percussion wall, a wailing, charging horn section. Now, select from memory the music that was your personal soundtrack to new love. Listen as the lyrics and score take you back and continue to inspire that frisson de folie, that delicious head over heels, gravity-defying tumbling to points [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xelaboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3640819&amp;post=247&amp;subd=xelaboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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