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		<title>Health and Safety: Staying safe as a lone worker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ve decided to move away from my usual offerings of opinion and social observation. In this post I&#8217;m actually going to talk about Health &#38; Safety for a change; an issue that forms part of the work I&#8217;m actually in business to do&#8230; I can hear the cry already &#8211; &#8220;Oh no, not Elf-n-Safety&#8221; but before I continue - [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9996&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amelie&#8217;s Adventures feeding #HungrySailors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many it&#8217;s often far too easy to see nautical dreams founder on the rocks of family commitment and/or financial constraint. Like so many other aspirant armchair mariners of this island nation; I often get my particular nautical fix from visiting the Harbour of Desire, found in the written word and visual media&#8230; Despite the ill winds and stiff off-shore squalls we navigate through life in search of a safe haven, ones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9948&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Freedom Comes Responsibility&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I gingerly type the first few words of this post, not confidently knowing where they will take me, I feel as if I may have bitten off a little more than I can comfortably chew. However, not being one to shirk a responsibility to protect the rights of others, or indeed my own rights; with a modicum of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9906&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Bob Marley: the social legacy of a legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not you&#8217;re a fan of Bob Marley is mostly immaterial however; you would have to be exceedingly young, or something of a recluse, to be able to say &#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard of him&#8221; but, apart from his music, what did he leave us with when he died? Over three decades have passed since his death [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9924&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Britain: Valuing Dogs, Inklings and Bajans as Diversity Trainers</title>
		<link>http://bankbabble.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/loving-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bankside Bubbles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears to me there are many people who, despite originating from a myriad of differing nations and ethnic backgrounds, actually value and appreciate all that is &#8216;great&#8217; about Britain. But many are also fearful of admitting to that fact, why so? Do we really lack pride in &#8216;our&#8217; country or, is that any pride we do hold, is artificially suppressed by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9750&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Independence: What about the money?</title>
		<link>http://bankbabble.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/scottish-independence-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Hasney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bankside Bubbles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Salmond]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish independence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying; I make no apology for my (partial) plagiarism in the content of this post. My raison d&#8217;être being; it is easier to put all the information in one place, to aid ease of reading/storage for my future use , and that of my readership&#8230; Regular readers will have noted of late, I&#8217;ve been throwing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankbabble.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11071744&amp;post=9898&amp;subd=bankbabble&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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