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		<title>the joys of writing part five</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I received from the printers my proof copy of &#8220;Trousers&#8221; in paperback. The moment of joy at having my own book in my hands was soon over though when I spotted the errors on the back cover. Now &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/the-joys-of-writing-part-five/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=967&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the joys of writing part four</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month on from the publication of &#8220;Trousers&#8221; I finally yielded to temptation and looked at how many people had obtained a copy. I was hopeful that I might have been up towards the top end of  my wildest expectations &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-joys-of-writing-part-four/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=963&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the joys of writing part three</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to all of those who follow these jottings. My holiday period has been spent with a heavy cold and so I have been more than happy to sit and write. My first book, I Don&#8217;t Have My &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/the-joys-of-writing-part-three/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=956&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>of beards, and of sexual equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who have picked up on my beard Tweets, the new beard was about a week old when it&#8217;s tenure was terminated. I hadn&#8217;t intended to grow one, but in feeling rotten with the stinker of a virus that &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/of-beards-and-of-sexual-equality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=950&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the joys of writing part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month I have put together my first eBook, published yesterday. I&#8217;ve also written my regular column, a few other blogs, an article for a sports industry magazine and about another 10,000 words towards another project. An enforced &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-joys-of-writing-part-two/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=906&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alec Baldwin and the elegance of air travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote here the other week about falling standards in passenger appearance at airports. Since then we have seen Alec Baldwin respond to being taken off an American Airlines flight for failing to comply with the directions of the cabin &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/alec-baldwin-and-the-elegance-of-air-travel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=901&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I could find that offensive, but I&#8217;m a grown up and I choose not to</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about modern society and this obsession with taking offence? A supermarket correctly labels its burgers as being reindeer and parents say that it has upset their children, so now they are calling them moose burgers. Well if, &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/i-could-find-that-offensive-but-im-a-grown-up-and-i-choose-not-to/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=898&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to avoid dying in a plane crash</title>
		<link>http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/how-to-avoid-dying-in-a-plane-crash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have cracked the secret of not dying in a &#8216;plane crash, and all for less than $20. I just bought myself a Ralph Lauren shirt cheap in T J Maxx to wear when I fly. How does it work? &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/how-to-avoid-dying-in-a-plane-crash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=890&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on a love of music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents were not musical. Other than belting out hymns in church with more enthusiasm than technique I can't remember either doing anything remotely musical, and so I don't know where my interest in music comes from. When I was &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/more-on-a-love-of-music/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=887&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standards of dress; why do they even let these people into the airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger a trip to Heathrow was a treat. Go up to the viewing gallery, watch the &#8216;planes and the people and, for a while, be part of the glamour of it all, because those who were travelling &#8230; <a href="http://johnjbowen.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/standards-of-dress-why-do-they-even-let-these-people-into-the-airport/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnjbowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11685246&amp;post=885&amp;subd=johnjbowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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