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	<title>Gremlin's Fireside Chat</title>
	<link>http://www.garyleeson.com</link>
	<description>A Warm Discussion On Java, Developing and All Things Irish</description>
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		<title>ABCD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Maeve is 2 years 5 months old and is getting bigger, bolder and smarter. I have just heard Maeve recite perfectly the whole ABC song from A through Z perfectly. No too sure she understands what the alphabet is but it is impressive. Not only that Maeves music tastes are evolving; We know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/06/11/abcd/</link>
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		<title>A good news story for a change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is too much bad news in world today. With the terrible gun rampage in the UK its nice to see something nice.
Here is a heart warming and tribute to modern science &#8211; the moment a deaf 8 month baby got to first hear from a set of implanted cochlear implants.

You can see and feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/06/03/a-good-news-story-for-a-change/</link>
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		<title>My Daughter the super hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this You tube video and showed it to my big Iron-Man and Robot fan Maeve aged 2 Years 3 months old. 

Her first comment was more&#8230; again!!! Her next one one was &#8220;its Maeve&#8221;.
My Daughter the super smart super hero.
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		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/06/03/my-daughter-the-super-hero/</link>
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		<title>New Ancestors Found!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Irish National Archives have today released the 1901 Irish Census &#8211; and I could not help but take a dive and have a look at my mothers side of the Bartleys. I knew that in 1911 they lived in  Whistlemount just outside Navan. The census results for 1911 shows :

My Grandfather Joseph (a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/06/03/new-ancestors-found/</link>
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		<title>A starling discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came home to the view of starling looking out at me from the sitting room window. Poor bird fell down the chimney and obviously scared flew around spreading excrement everywhere – guess what I will be doing this evening.  I don&#8217;t know what they eat – looks like berries of some kind – but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/06/01/a-starling-discovery/</link>
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		<title>First Nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Night Maeve had her first nightmare &#8211; well the first we recognized as such. Maeve has been a bit &#8220;clingy&#8221; of late because of a couple of instances where she has wandered off in shops. You all know what happens you bend down to pick something up and by the time you stand up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/04/16/first-nightmare/</link>
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		<title>Touching the past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is rare that one has the opportunity to gain direct physical contact with an event that happened in 1912 and one which has entered the cultural consciousness of mankind. I am sure when I say the word &#8220;Titanic&#8221; you understand exactly what I mean. A ship that some said was &#8220;unsinkable&#8221; because of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/04/12/touching-the-past/</link>
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		<title>Learning through watching and listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maeve is a Nat King Cole fan and its helping her English because she tries to learn the Lyrics &#8211; even to the extent of telling me to &#8220;stop &#8211; my turn dada&#8221;. Her current favourite is the catchy number &#8220;Straighten Up And Fly Right&#8221; which she bounces up and down in her car seat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/04/07/learning-through-watching-and-listening/</link>
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		<title>O.M.G</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh My God!!&#8221;  or better known as  OMG was one of the first things I heard this morning; and one uttered by my 2 year 2 month old Daughter Maeve. The cause of the utterance was plain to see when I looked down the stairs and saw Maeve trolley  on its side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/03/29/o-m-g/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes we need time to ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Patrick&#8217;s day this year fell on a Wednesday and my wife and I decided to take the Thursday and Friday off to make a mini-break; Especially since we still took our daughter Maeve to the creche on the Thursday and Friday. Like most couple with young children its hard to get time to yourself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/03/22/sometimes-we-need-time-to-ourselves/</link>
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