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	<title>Colleen Smith</title>
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	<description>The everyday thoughts of a single working Mum...</description>
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		<title>Frumpy the Irish hen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 I AM going to be spending most of this weekend dressed as a dwarf, complete with grey beard, in the nightclubs of Belfast.
It’s a hen weekend. Which sounded like a great idea several months ago, but now I’m starting to worry about my capacity to keep up, keep awake and keep upright with all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgians, Virgins and Mysinglefriend online dating site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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MY youngest had us in fits of laughter again this week, when he started talking about “the Belgian Mary”.
We had no idea what he was talking about, so he explained that he’d been learning about the Belgian Mary at school, when the vicar came to talk to his class.
It wasn’t until he said: “You know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tyra Banks is Gorgeous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALL is not lost – I now weigh less than a supermodel. 
Admittedly that supermodel is Tyra Banks, who at 33 is now retired, and she is currently being called Tyra Pork Chops after photos of her appeared on a website titled, “Tyra Banks is Fat.”
But I was confused by all the controversy because Tyra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Children Are the Most Unhappy in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.colleen-smith.co.uk/british-children-are-the-most-unhappy-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK I give up. It’s officially impossible to be a parent in this country.

This week it’s been more of the usual “experts warn” and “surveys reveal” in the Press. First we discover that British children are the most unhappy in the world (right after Christmas as well. Downright ungrateful really).
And then we are told that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Teenagers Tell Me Everything - But Sometimes I Wish They Didn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.colleen-smith.co.uk/my-teenagers-tell-me-everything-but-sometimes-i-wish-they-didnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MY teenagers tell me everything.
I know that sounds naïve. And I know that it flies in the face of all the evidence about parents not knowing the half of what their children get up to.

 And I accept that it’s not normal for parents and their teens to have such an open and candid relationship. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DATING AND THE SINGLE MUM</title>
		<link>http://www.colleen-smith.co.uk/dating-and-the-single-mum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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TWO things have happened recently which have called me untold stress and sleepless nights.
The first was Christmas. Phew what a palaver! Thank goodness that’s over for another year!
And the second was my first date in a year. And ditto, with the phew and palaver.

 It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, but I really had no idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy slappy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Relationships</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I HAVE just come back from taking the children to Disney in Paris for a couple of days.
Disney is one of very few holidays which suits teenage girls and a five-year-old boy: a long-promised treat, paid for mostly with three years’ worth of Tesco vouchers.

And we enjoyed it. It was all very Disney. No rubbish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and power</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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THE sex and power report sounds raunchier than it is.
It’s the title of a recent Equal Opportunities Commission survey which shows that fewer women are now occupying top jobs.
The report contains neither sex nor power, just the fact that 6,000 women have disappeared from the country’s top 33,000 posts, leaving men to run everything from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing weight in Year of the Pig</title>
		<link>http://www.colleen-smith.co.uk/losing-weight-in-year-of-the-pig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I KNOW I say this every year, but 2007 is going to be different.
For a start, this is going to be Chinese Year of the Pig, and I was born in the year of the pig, so 2007 has got my name on it.
People born in pig years are, apparently, loyal, strong, fond of life’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Mum Speaks Out for the Silent Majority</title>
		<link>http://www.colleen-smith.co.uk/divorce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Relationships</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A CLASSIC Woody Allen joke goes something like this.
“My ex-wife and I argued over who should get custody of the children…neither of us wanted them.”
Well that’s kind of how I feel. Don’t get me wrong. It would break my heart to give up my kids, but equally I dream about having a couple of days [...]]]></description>
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