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		<title>Wow she can write and spell</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2012/05/10/wow-she-can-write-and-spell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a shock last night. I handed my daughter my Asus Transformer tablet with a drawing app opened and she then proceeded to draw/write this with her finger:

My 4 year 3 month old daughter can write her name (and I found out later my name too) and the numbers. I was an am in awe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Daughter becomes a Seal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 4 year old daughter has qualified as a &#8220;Seal 2&#8243; (or &#8220;Navy Seal&#8221; as I call her) and we are really proud of her.

Really impressed in how she is taken to swimming &#8211; although its more &#8220;familiarity&#8221; than swimming at the moment. Ireland has an appalling track record when we come to swimming, its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2012/03/13/5th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today five years ago my beloved father died in his sleep at the relatively young age of sixty nine. My Father died suddenly in his sleep in pretty much great health and before the birth of two of his grandchildren of whom he would have no doubt adored.
Even after five years I am still in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Force</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2012/01/29/the-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Daughter is just four years old (16th Jan) and she has just made me roar with laughter. I have just put her to bed and after reading a story and giving her a hug and kiss I was getting up when she said &#8211; &#8220;Dad &#8230;. Dad &#8230;.. May the force be with you&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is man?</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2012/01/21/what-is-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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What is man but an amass of conflictions &#8211; Conflictions of emotions, of being, of purpose.
To be a man &#8211; a human man is to be essentially alone.
Love transcends these barriers, but is itself like quicksand forever moving.

Circ 2000
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		<title>A Soft Rain (May 25 2000)</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2012/01/21/a-soft-rain-may-25-2000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Soft Rain,
Cleansing troubled soul,
A new beginning.
A lover a far,
A great empty chasm,
I miss her so much.

I wrote this way back in 2000 &#8211; when my now wife was living in Australia.
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		<title>How did she do it&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/12/07/how-did-she-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bright, cheerful bundle of love and joy that is my daughter Maeve surprised me this evening. Some evenings I let my daughter watch videos on my HTC Desire smart-phone and this evening was one of those days. You can imagine my surprise that when I started the usual &#8220;time for you to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Haircut</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/10/02/first-haircut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening my little curly red-headed daughter aged 3 and a half was given a haircut by her mom. Maeve&#8217;s does not really have a big or thick head of red curls yet; But after 3 years some parts have grown longer and faster than others &#8211; mostly down the middle so she looks like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Differences &#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/07/09/cultural-differences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/07/09/cultural-differences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maeve my three year old daughter must be beginning to understand that all people are not the same (colour, language etc). I have a habit &#8211; good or bad &#8211; of trying to say hello and goodbye in the language of the person I am talking to. Maeve must have pickup up on this and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Winner is &#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/07/08/and-the-winner-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2011/07/08/and-the-winner-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gremlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bit of an exciting week for me. Last Friday a long contract finally came to an end and since I had six weeks notice of it I had signed up for the &#8220;Open Data 18 hour Challenge&#8221; on 4th and 5th July which from the blurb on their website was about local government data sets [...]]]></description>
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