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		<title>Flightdiary</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/flightdiary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 08:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flightdiary.what a useful site. Want to keep records on where you&#8217;ve flown and who you&#8217;ve flown with?  Keep it all there, brings out the anorak in all of us (especially me ) Filed under: Odd and Sods<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=147&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rain?  What&#8217;s that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come from a part of the UK that is currently VERY dry. Since April, we&#8217;ve had about 6mm of rain, during that time we would normally have had 60mm of rain, so the ground is dry, plants are staring to suffer, and, in the sky we see lots of cloud, but nothing falling from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=136&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunspots, Up, then Down, where next</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/sunspots-up-then-down-where-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sunspots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Cycle 24]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around February of this year (2011) it finally looked as though the current Sunspot Cycle was taking off, with multiple complex sunspots producing Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and the sun looking fairly peppered with spots. Four months later, we&#8217;ve had a relapse, going by the Laymans Sunspot Count we are falling back into the trough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=137&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long Break</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/long-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a long and unintentional break, I&#8217;m back, and let&#8217;s see where this world is headed Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=128&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunspots, how accurate is the count?</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/sunspots-how-accurate-is-the-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sunspots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across a very good site here.  In it, there is some serious discussion regarding the calculation of the Sunspot Number, and it&#8217;s deviation from the original Wolf number.  If you have the opportunity have a look, a fascinating site, well presented. One very nicely organised piece is on the &#8220;Layman&#8217;s Sunspot Count&#8221;, trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=126&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sense?  Or Nonsense?</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/sense-or-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MP&#8217;s, accused of having their noses in the trough are forced to repay £1,100,000, making them pay for their excesses, retrospecively since 2004. No breakdown on how that money is split by year, but probably 5 years worth so approx £200,000 per year Good, great work make them earn their money. Due to the MP&#8217;s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=125&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunpots starting in earnest??</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/sunpots-starting-in-earnest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as though the sun is finally waking, since the start of 2010 (this is written on Feb 11th), we have had a grand total of 2 days without a spot being recorded on the face of the sun, this is a distinct improvement on 2009 where there were 76% of days throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=124&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunspots, or lack of them</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/sunspots-or-lack-of-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may, if we are lucky see a rare thing in the next few days, it is just possible that a sunspot may appear as the sun rotates round, the SOHO Behind satellite seems to be recording activity at high latitude, which should indicate a cycle 24 spot.  We are now at day 13 of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=112&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contingency Reserve</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/contingency-reserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has happened since my last post, but this one is concerned mostly with British Politics and the Economics thereof.  According to World Statesmen.org , we have a GDP of $2.31 Trillion (approx £1.6 Trillion) for the year 2008.  We have Government Spending again for the same year, 2008, 0f £575 Billion (Source, UK Public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=114&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership?  Pull the Other One</title>
		<link>http://thurgarton.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/leadership-pull-the-other-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s U Turn, agree to let the Gurkhas come and stay in a country that they risked their lives for. Amazingly it was originally refused on the grounds of COST to the economy. No thought of these people having risked and sometimes laid down their lives to keep us safe. Ignore any that say they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thurgarton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6850657&amp;post=107&amp;subd=thurgarton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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