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		<title>Feelin&#8217; hot hot&#8230;not</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting twenty four hours during which I procured a fantastic haircut which, if I say so myself, has probably shaved about five years off me. The other twenty two hours I banked have done their their level best to add grey hairs and wrinkles but in fact only succeeded in dark [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1989&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seven signs of summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well summer is most definitely here in good old Dubai. I know this, because: 1. The air con in my car isn&#8217;t making the slightest bit of difference to how hot I feel until about 20 minutes into any given journey 2. I am continually torn between making conservative, middle eastern friendly wardrobe choices vs. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1981&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on the summer (not)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 10:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Dubai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame. On. Me. Life has once again got in the way of blogging. I was reminded for the third Monday in a row that I have failed to write a single thing this month by the arrival of my fellow bloggers&#8217; weekly summaries dropping into my inbox, and decided the time was ripe for plonking [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1968&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You know you&#8217;ve lived in Dubai too long when&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Dubai 'moment']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people &#8216;shared&#8217; this link on Facebook this week, about the fifteen signs you&#8217;ve lived in Qatar too long. Several of them could easily apply to Dubai and a few of them could probably apply to many expat experiences, but just for the sheer hell of it, and to celebrate the seven year mark, which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1955&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friends and farewells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[I am an emotional train wreck today]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really lucky in the past seven years. Whilst I&#8217;ve said goodbye to a few people here and there, friends have tended to drift in and out of my life as circumstances have changed, rather than be ripped from my side and onto a plane, never to be seen again. However, my time has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1935&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am simply absolutely not having another baby</title>
		<link>http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/i-am-simply-absolutely-not-having-another-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a mother of one and proud of it. There, I said it. For some reason, some people just can&#8217;t seem to accept that we don&#8217;t want another child. They are convinced that secretly I am desperate for another one and its all just a matter of time until I come to my senses. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1006&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuses excuses</title>
		<link>http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/excuses-excuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/?p=1946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay, so I&#8217;ve been slack&#8230;.sorry&#8230;.things have been kind of busy….okay, no, they haven&#8217;t; I just went on holiday and then got sick, and then my MA started up again and then the dog ate my homework and I sat in coffee shops and got my nails done instead of blogging…so sue me…I&#8217;m making the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1946&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion victim</title>
		<link>http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/fashion-victim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember being seventeen? I do. Vaguely. I was finishing up A-levels at a girl&#8217;s grammar school where I never really fitted in with anyone (although I&#8217;m not sure anyone else did either) and more interested in boys than school. I drove a beige mini cooper with a maroon top that broke down on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1940&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers and Whistles</title>
		<link>http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/flowers-and-whistles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always good to read what other Dubai bloggers are up to. For one, it helps me appreciate I am not the only one out there going slowly la-la, increasingly reliant on shoe shopping and sauv blanc to cure the ails of everyday expat living/parenting. Secondly, it gives me all kinds of ideas of things [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1917&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arise, agents of change: an open letter</title>
		<link>http://wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/arise-agents-of-change-an-open-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FNB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all the seven kinds of crazy women currently populating our school gates: It&#8217;s fair to say, that I have whined in my time. There have been moments so low in my life that I would have gladly traded all my worldly goods for things to be different. But if there is one thing I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wheresmyrubyslippers.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22531186&#038;post=1910&#038;subd=wheresmyrubyslippers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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