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	<description>Gerry Hayes&#039; Blog</description>
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		<title>Achy Breaky Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my skull, that is.
Not really, of course.  If it were my skull, it&#8217;d have a frickin&#8217; crack in it. If it were my skull, it&#8217;d have a fracture in the left occipital bone to the occipital condyle.  In non-medical terms, this means it would hurt.  A lot.
Somehow, I managed to crack my head.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/03/14/achy-breaky-head/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done one of these for a couple of weeks so I thought I&#8217;d make it extra special. This is not just A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book, this is A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Lovely Scone With Some Jam And a Book
The scone: Fruit.  The jam: Strawberry.
The book: Risk: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/02/23/a-nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-book-risk/</link>
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		<title>Short Story: Original Sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My short story, Original Sin has been published on Metazen and is currently available to read.
I&#8217;d like it if you could take a look.
You can read it here.
If you like short/flash stories, you should definitely subscribe to Metazen as there&#8217;s always lots of consistently good stuff there.
I&#8217;m off to find a corner in which to curl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/02/10/short-story-original-sin/</link>
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		<title>Gandhi Goes To The Naughty Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter, who is now five and a half (definitely not five), has discovered non-violent protest.
When she&#8217;s aggrieved about something &#8211; or possibly just stropy &#8211; she now walks really, really slowly. And, clever girl that she is, she tends to engage in this disruptive behaviour when we need to actually go somewhere &#8211; generally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/02/04/gandhi-goes-to-the-naughty-corner/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: 1980</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I lied.  I said I&#8217;d need a break between 1977 and this, David Peace&#8217;s 1980.
It seems I didn&#8217;t.
I tried to take a break.  I started two other books and gave up a dozen pages in.  They were too light.  My brain had grown accustomed to the distressing world of Peace&#8217;s Yorkshire and was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/02/02/a-nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-book-1980/</link>
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		<title>Gerry 1, Weather 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1-all.  That&#8217;s the score in the last two weeks as far as my having a ramble in the hills is concerned.
Last week, I took a walk up Derrybawn.  I&#8217;d been there before but figured that it might be a good route to get into the hills before all the snow had gone.  And it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/01/31/gerry-1-weather-1-3/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: 1977</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s grim up north*
At least it is in David Peace&#8217;s 1977. Bleak, gloomy and darker than closing your eyes at the bottom of an ocean where even those weird, ugly fish are scared to go.
Awful, terrible, beautiful darkness.  Peace just won&#8217;t leave you alone. His words gnaw and eat at you and his story remains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/01/21/a-nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-book-1977/</link>
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		<title>Never Say Monday Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
INT.  HAYES MEGALOMANIACAL GLOBAL DOMINATION HQ &#8211; MORNING
GERRY, a ruggedly handsome, goatee-sporting rake in his 30&#8217;s (just), strides purposefully into the dispatching chamber. He stands at the bottom of the murder platform and crosses his manly arms.
GERRY
So, Monday&#46;&#46;&#46; We meet again.
MONDAY, strapped to the murder platform and whimpering like a girl, looks up with tears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/01/18/never-say-monday-again/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: No Country For Old Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;m the suggestible type. I read The Road last week and was taken by McCarthy&#8217;s slightly unusual prose style.  I decided I&#8217;d like to read some more McCarthy and No Country For Old Men seemed like an easy next step.
Oddly enough, I&#8217;ve actually failed to catch the film yet so I went into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/01/18/a-nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-book-no-country-for-old-men/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: The Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one arrived today.  Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s The Road.
I&#8217;m hoping to get to see the film next week &#8211; weather permitting &#8211; and I really wanted to read the book before I did.
The postie brought this at lunchtime and, bad father that I am, I bundled my daughter into the next room to rot her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stareintospace.com/2010/01/08/a-nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-book-the-road/</link>
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