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		<title>Still Live and Kicking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I have been simply itching to get back to blogging since Spring decided to creep around the corner, but have to make an apology for my lateness. Things have just been going nuts around the Ark lately, with little one&#8217;s first birthday quickly approaching and hen&#8217;s getting broody, I&#8217;m rushed off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=312&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Time Does Fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re not gardening. Well, I haven&#8217;t done anything really, since my last post here, short of finishing the Tyre Garden at the bottom of the garden. The back garden is looking pretty sorry for itself as Winter rolls in, and although I know it&#8217;s possible to get a splash of winter colour in with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=307&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Compost Can One Tyre Hold?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tyre Recycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will attempt to answer that question very simply: A lot. I am starting to recover from my bout of sickness now, and so I had the itch to get outside today, even though it was ridiculously cold (typically, I&#8217;ve been ill through the best of the weather of late. Glorious Sunshine plus Sick Ria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=299&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picky Poultry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I admit it, I&#8217;m just feeling too ill, crappy and lazy to do any real gardening today. So I settled for some poultry therapy instead. I was reminded of a post that I read on Mark&#8217;s Vegetable Garden this morning, about his &#8216;little helpers&#8217; in the compost bin. Well, my not-so-little helpers at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=287&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Bulbs Are Here Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my special offer from Thompson &#38; Morgan arrived in the post yesterday, all neatly packed in little boxes and well labelled. I must admit that I have so little space prepared for them, I wonder what I&#8217;m going to do. I had considered finishing our &#8216;tyre garden&#8217; at the bottom of the orchard and using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=280&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double Wordless Wednesday!</title>
		<link>http://arkgarden.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/double-wordless-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<title>10 Things I Love About Me</title>
		<link>http://arkgarden.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/10-things-i-love-about-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had no idea what to do at work this morning, so I settled for this little piece of self-indulgence, as I was invited by Island Threads. The rules of the game are: 1) Inform who invited you 2) List 10 things you like to do 3) Invite another 10 bloggers to do the same. It&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=270&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collecting Seeds for Spring</title>
		<link>http://arkgarden.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/collecting-seeds-for-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my last post that I had been collecting the seed from the Sweet Peas. I managed to get quite a few envelopes filled in the end, and have today finished cleaning the chaff away ready for storage. I should have left the sweet peas in their pods to dry out completely, but they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=264&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife Wonders</title>
		<link>http://arkgarden.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/wildlife-wonders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst sitting on the patio yesterday and hunting through my sweet pea plants for seed, I came across a few more visitors to the garden &#8211; yet again in the form of caterpillars. Never one to miss an opportunity, I grabbed the camera and set to it, ready to identify the little critters as soon as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=245&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Dats.</title>
		<link>http://arkgarden.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/rip-dats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIP Douglas Alexander, d. Sep 2010, a wonderful grandfather and a truly knowledgeable, warm and kind-hearted individual. You will be sorely missed. Image courtesy of http://www.backgroundpictures.org/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arkgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8847229&amp;post=259&amp;subd=arkgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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