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		<title>When I was a lad</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a lad, Things were very different, I began.

I was born in 1957 in an isolated relative’s cottage in the middle of a field, near Exeter in Devon.  It still exists to this day with only a solitary oak tree for company.

Nature would come to life around this cottage, which was about as airtight as a wire cage.  Sometimes the weather would batter it like a furious boxer going in for the final blow, leaving us and the retreating wildlife under siege.  The wind regularly gusted across the hills, driving the rain at all angles like a hail of spears, and leaving us feeling no better off than the cows cowering under the tree.

The cottage was originally built in about 1590, over four centuries ago, just after King Henry Vlll had dissolved the monasteries to reclaim some wealth for the nation.  If he was around today I’m sure some bankers heads would be rolling, with any questions asked later.

Queen Elizabeth I was still on the throne as the Tudor dynasty was drawing to a close, continuing in the family tradition of having heads lopped off when it suited her.  In those days people were alternatively hanged for a lot less than kidnapping an architect, and drunken louts might have found themselves in the stocks with no ‘human rights’ to hide behind.

A horse ride along the coast to Plymouth at that time would have found Drake casually finishing his game of bowls, before setting sail to sort out the Spanish in their heavily armed galleons, managing to get himself knighted rather than decapitated.  Meanwhile Shakespeare was sensibly keeping his head down putting quill to parchment.]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
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      It was just a normal day like any other.  I was out taking a gentle stroll on a fresh Sunday morning, enjoying the scenery and thinking about my plans for the week when suddenly my arms were grabbed from behind.  In the ensuing struggle a sack was pulled over my head and I was roughly bundled into the back of a van.  I heard a few distant shouts from passers-by as the doors slammed shut and the tyres squealed into action. As I lay there shivering with fear, a voice bellowed through the darkness at me from the front.  ]]></description>
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