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		<title>Carrot &amp; Coriander Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another lovely recipe from Roly&#8217;s Café &#038; Bakery Cookbook. This is the fifth recipe I&#8217;ve tried from this book and all results to date have gone into the &#8216;definitely repeat&#8217; or &#8216;exceptional&#8217; category.  
After all my ranting about the amount of oil used in a number of previous recipes, here is one that calls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/15/carrot-coriander-soup/</link>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is off work at the moment due to high blood pressure most likely caused by stress. 
A colleague who has just had a third baby commented to me the other day, that until you have children yourself, you have no concept of the sheer amount of work involved with small children. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/14/mothers-day/</link>
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		<title>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets&#8217; Nest by Stieg Larsson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished the last book in the trilogy but am only getting around to writing a review on it now. Having finished it, I would certainly recommend the trilogy &#8230; but for marathon readers not sprinters. Overall I felt the three books could have done with some serious editing. Notwithstanding that, they are still a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilycollison.com/2010/03/12/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-by-stieg-larsson/</link>
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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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