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	<title>Becoming Domestic</title>
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	<description>Leaving full-time employment in London to downshift and be rural homemaker</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Home Loving</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/07/02/home-loving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bits and Bobs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Home Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vintage Country Shabby Chic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do know that we are extraordinarily lucky living where we do and living the way we do. We have three beautiful, healthy little kids, great friends and family etc etc etc but very occasionally, when I&#8217;m tired, or have too many things going on at once and feel under it I need a reminder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing more temptation to spend</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/27/removing-more-temptation-to-spend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/27/removing-more-temptation-to-spend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saving Money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It must be human nature to want to acquire things. I used to love shopping and spending. These days I&#8217;m always trying to think of more ways to keep spending to a minimum.
A number of beautiful looking catalogues regularly come through the post addressed to me. I usually open them, flick through and then throw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty ways to be thrifty</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/26/fifty-ways-to-be-thrifty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/26/fifty-ways-to-be-thrifty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fantastic list of easy ways to save money from The Times Online. Some really good ideas.
http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/02/the-thrifty-fif.html
I&#8217;m already doing some of them (cooking in bulk, using leftovers, magazine swapping with a friend each month, using a piggy bank for all my loose little bits of change, reusing pots and bread bags for storing sandwiches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to save some money</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/23/how-to-save-some-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/23/how-to-save-some-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Budgeting and Finances]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saving Money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we noticed our monthly food bills rising without good reason, since we heard more and more about the so-called &#8216;credit crunch&#8217; and the predicted downturn in the economy, we started thinking seriously about what options we had to make ourselves recession proof.
A brief look at our fixed monthly outgoings identified our rent, food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Self Sufficient</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/19/becoming-self-sufficient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/19/becoming-self-sufficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Being Green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self Sufficiency]]></category>

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Its a new long term project that has just emerged for this family but since Bealers has been Head of Veg Gardening and really enjoying it (having never planted or grown anything before he&#8217;s now growing chillis, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, peas, pumpkins, all manner of herbs and salad items, raspberries, strawberries and LOADS of potatoes!), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being prepared for emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/10/being-prepared-for-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/06/10/being-prepared-for-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bits and Bobs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crisis Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who used to have a job as a crisis management coordinator for a big global firm. I realised this weekend while talking to my uncle about oil prices and how heavily our island society depends on oil to transport food that my young family is currently woefully ill-equiped to cope with any kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we love using washable baby wipes</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/18/why-we-love-using-washable-baby-wipes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/18/why-we-love-using-washable-baby-wipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baby and Pregnancy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Being Green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>

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As we were fortunate enough to be given LOADS of second hand washable nappies I am really enjoying not having to use disposable nappies which I&#8217;m glad about as disposables cost a fortune (about £10 for a week&#8217;s worth of botty changes) and they also are super stinky in the household refuse bin (even when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make a Lamb Hot Pot</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/06/how-to-make-a-lamb-hot-pot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/06/how-to-make-a-lamb-hot-pot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gluten free living]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My local butcher stocks really good quality meat but doesn&#8217;t supply chunks of stewing lamb as by the time he has taken all the cuts of meat from the animal there is very little left to cut into pieces worth selling. For some reason though the supermarket does sell stewing lamb and so when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Willow Den One Year On</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/06/our-willow-den-one-year-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/06/our-willow-den-one-year-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crafts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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The Willow Den in the background will get much leafier this summer
Last March we bought the willow withies to make a willow den for the children as our garden has no shade after midday during the summer months. Withies can be bought from November-March in the UK when the wood is dormant.
We followed the instructions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frugal Fun with SwapIt FlogIt</title>
		<link>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/05/frugal-fun-with-swapit-flogit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/05/05/frugal-fun-with-swapit-flogit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ackers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was fed up of watching steel &#8216;TP&#8217; climbing frames go for more than I wanted to pay on eBay. I&#8217;d decided a while ago that a climbing frame would be a great investment in my kids health and had some money given to them for Christmas by their Aunty and Grandma in the giant [...]]]></description>
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