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		<title>I have never been a pasta lover but &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This recipe from Roly&#8217;s Café &#038; Bakery might just change my mind!
The ingredients

Add one hungry boy just home from school

Who doesn&#8217;t even wait for pasta to be cooked  

400 ml of olive oil was supposed to be used and I promise I won&#8217;t take out my soap box, (haven&#8217;t time &#8211; hungry boy waiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/09/i-have-never-been-a-pasta-lover-but/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;To the waters and the wild&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denis and I took the dogs for a walk &#8216;down by the riverside&#8217;, the river in question being the Shannon. There&#8217;s a great riverside walk which can be accessed through the UL campus. Here&#8217;s some photographs from the evening.


We met a number of pairs of swans along the river. Interestingly swans form pairs that last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/07/to-the-waters-and-the-wild/</link>
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		<title>Up and running</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes our new BBC, our Blog Book Club is up and running.
So far we have seven members, Marian, Treasa, Cathy, Marie, Lorna, Val and yours truly. 
Our first book has been selected &#8216;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8217;, the 2007 novel by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, as suggested by Marian. 

We will all be busy reading, ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/05/up-and-running/</link>
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		<title>World Book Day and an Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
Mark Twain 

Today is World Book Day, the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland. 
Ennis Book Club Festival is on this weekend with readings/talks by authors such as Lionel Shriver, Joseph O&#8217;Connor, Paul Durcan, Tim Pat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/04/world-book-day-and-an-idea/</link>
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		<title>Obesity and counting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I cook my way through various cookbooks, I never cease to be amazed at the high number of calories in some recipes. I&#8217;ve commented on this before in a number of posts. A recent example is a recipe that I won&#8217;t be cooking from Roly&#8217;s Cookbook &#8211; a recipe for Fish Pie which serves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/01/obesity-and-counting/</link>
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		<title>Tradition, tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is about a long tradition chez Collison of Denis making pizza on Friday night. I&#8217;m reminded of the song from Fiddler on the Roof

Tradition, tradition! Tradition!
Tradition, tradition! Tradition!

Who, day and night, must scramble for a living,
Feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers?
And who has the right, as master of the house,
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/02/27/tradition-tradition/</link>
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		<title>Has spring sprung?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When does spring actually begin? 
According to the calendar, it&#8217;s the first of February. In the US it&#8217;s the 21st March, the spring equinox. According to nature it&#8217;s beginning to happen around now.
Lambs are appearing
Photo owned by  rs-foto (cc)
The hedgerows are beginning to green up

Snowdrops are plentiful

Tulip bulbs are bursting forth

Even some early daffodils [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/02/23/has-spring-sprung/</link>
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		<title>To review or not to review, that is &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been mulling over the idea of including restaurant reviews on the blog for a while. One of the biggest problem with doing so is that I&#8217;m a creature of habit, when I find somewhere I like, I tend to go there frequently. That wouldn&#8217;t be much use if doing reviews. Secondly I tend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/02/21/to-review-or-not-to-review-that-is/</link>
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		<title>French Onion Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This recipe from Roly&#8217;s Café &#038; Bakery was again simplicity itself. I thought it was very suitable to eat while watching France play Ireland last Saturday. 
Well maybe far less playing and much more trouncing. 

Four onions were finely sliced. My slicing may not have been fine enough, I was in a rush &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/02/18/french-onion-soup/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Girl Who Played with Fire&#8217; by Stieg Larsson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did very little last weekend except read this second book in the trilogy. 
The three of the books together add up to 1704 pages, 1.6kg in weight. (And they&#8217;re only paperback).
Just some light reading!

I really loved but also complained about this second book. 
Though the story continues from the first book, it took a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/02/17/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-by-stieg-larsson/</link>
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