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		<title>The Wood Carver (revisited)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow this blog, you may remember this man whom I featured last year in the post Arts and crafts in Mozambique  . . . He&#8217;s the wood carver who carves the most amazing pieces by hand. Although he has some assistants doing the rough-hewing of the timber, he does all the fine carving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6307&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;3-second Rule&#8221; experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 05:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. When I look at online news-sites, I&#8217;m not looking for &#8220;real&#8221; news, I&#8217;m looking for unusual headlines. These are normally found on the SciTech pages (as they always seem to involve some kind of &#8220;scientific research&#8221;) of the less serious (for want of a better term) news-sites. Often, it&#8217;s either the research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6291&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email from Cecile &#8211; one rhino&#8217;s heroine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have followed this blog for a while, will know the inspirational story of Hercules, the baby rhino. If you don&#8217;t you can catch up on it in the posts Hercules, the 100 kg baby, Hercules and Brutus – an update and What a handsome fellow! Towards the end of April, I received the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6276&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a handsome fellow!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may remember Hercules, the 100 kg baby featured on this blog last September. He was being hand-reared because of initial health problems and the fear that he would not make it out in the wild. At the time he was drinking 4 litres of milk (calf’s milk formula with supplements) 4 times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6259&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whales . . . what whales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willie and a small party of family and friends recently did The Whale Trail hiking route in the Southern Cape. Unlike the gruelling and spectacular Otter Trail (See the Here Be Dragons post) which this group hiked last year, The Whale Trail is a somewhat gentler &#8211; and more civilized &#8211; hike. It is &#8220;slackpacking&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6243&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Borders and Border Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something one often forgets is that country borders are arbitrary, man-made features. Often running along natural geographic features such as rivers and mountain ranges. Sometimes literally just being lines drawn in the sand after territory was fought over and claimed. Being at the tip of Africa, South Africa has a very long coastline (some 2800 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6138&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy, Reality, Dreams – Part II</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/fantasy-reality-dreams-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by Skadhu from Microfishing In The World Pool. Did you miss Fantasy, Reality, Dreams &#8211; Part I ? To recap, Skadhu started discussing in her first post the assumptions which are made about gaming and gamers including: Gaming is bad for you because you’re always sitting at a computer. Gamers are dangerously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6202&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy, Reality, Dreams &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/fantasy-reality-dreams-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by Skadhu from Microfishing In The World Pool After I commented on her post talking about her experience with video/online gaming, Lisa very kindly asked if I&#8217;d be interested in writing a guest post about computer games and fantasy vs reality, or maybe games vs reading, or maybe… well, games and gaming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6141&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A cuckoo in the nest?</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/a-cuckoo-in-the-nest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recently acquired hobbies of blogging and photography have made me far more aware and curious about what is going on around me. Especially in our garden and out on our walks. About a month ago I saw a &#8220;new&#8221; bird in our garden. By &#8220;new&#8221;, I of course mean that it was one I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6110&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are the odds?</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/what-are-the-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have broken an egg and found two yolks inside, but what are the odds of finding twin yolks in fifteen out of a tray of eighteen eggs?  That has just happened to us, and has me wondering WHY? Do they all come from the same hen &#8211; with a history of twins in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6081&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some comments: Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits etc</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/some-comments-fantasy-armor-and-lady-bits-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post (I am no warrior . . .) I wrote about my observations of on-line role-playing games. One reader, Skadhu from Microfishing In The World Pool, had some interesting comments in response to what I said. Here is an edited version of that response. I had made the comment that &#8220;I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6067&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am no warrior (and other role playing observations)</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/i-am-no-warrior-and-other-role-playing-observations/</link>
		<comments>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/i-am-no-warrior-and-other-role-playing-observations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my friend Riekie (from Clouded Marbles) visited in January, she brought along her notebook (laptop) so she could play her favourite online role-playing game during any downtime. Riekie plays one of the MMORP games online (you can read her post about them here). Looking over her shoulder one evening, I asked her to show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6029&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fresh start</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/a-fresh-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we moved into our house years ago, the garden was still at its peak. It had the right balance between there being plenty of plant cover, but not being too overgrown. A long severe drought during 2009/2010  helped keep the undergrowth in check. Then at the end of 2010 the rains returned and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=6023&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No pain</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/no-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning with no pain. Nada. Not a twinge. For those that don&#8217;t know my story, I live with chronic pain. In the summer months I have daily headaches and migraines. I live with a spectrum of pain, which affects everything I do, and affects my family and friends. Pain changes who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5999&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beating the heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s summer here in the southern hemisphere, and hot and very humid here in the Southern Cape. It&#8217;s not only the humans suffering either &#8211; birds and animals are all sticking to the shade during the day. Lucy (the cat) and Rosie (the dog) spend most days indoors, and especially in the bedroom with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5994&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A walk on the dark side</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend Riekie and I (see previous post here) decided to head into the small city of George to look at the Christmas lights. Yes I know, Christmas was almost three weeks ago, and the lights had been switched on sometime in mid-December &#8211; but I kept procrastinating. I had driven through town at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5973&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A scenic 30-minute drive</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/a-scenic-30-minute-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been missing-in-action for the last couple of weeks. The heat and especially the humidity here in the Southern Cape have meant daily migraines for me, and not much energy or inspiration to blog. This past weekend Riekie (from Clouded Marbles) came to visit. She ended up having to entertain herself quite a lot (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5955&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a jump to the left . . .</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/just-a-jump-to-the-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . of the International Date Line, that is. Samoa  (formally &#8220;Western Somoa&#8221; in the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean) is . . .  . . . skipping Friday and going straight to Saturday as it shifts its time zone forward by 24 hours in a bid to move into line with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5944&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jet-set Puppy turns three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago on the 24th December, Rosie (AKA The Jet-set Puppy) arrived in this world with a lot of excess energy. She hasn&#8217;t stopped moving since. If you missed the original series about how we came to adopt her, see The Jet-Set Puppy series: Buying a puppy via the Internet A year of chaos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5925&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcards from Australia: Sydney via Notes from Africa &#124; Photoblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The photographs in this post were taken on a recent trip I did to Australia to attend a forestry conference. After spending a couple of days in Sydney, I flew to Canberra to start the pre-conference tour – essentially a road trip between Canberra and Melbourne, stopping off to look at forestry areas along the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5928&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dream survey &#8211; the results</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/dream-survey-the-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the day that at least some of you have been waiting for has arrived &#8211; the discussion of the result of my dream survey. The rest of you might have forgotten what it is all about, or are maybe new to this blog. It started off with me talking about having somebody else&#8217;s dreams. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5907&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Befriending Mr. Sandman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by Lu from The Unwitting Traveller for Notes from Africa Firstly, I’d like to thank Lisa for inviting me to guest blog here on Notes from Africa. I consider it to be a huge compliment to be putting forth words to be read by Lisa’s audience – so I hope I don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5883&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery plant a mystery no more</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/mystery-plant-a-mystery-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner (from the Pacific Bulb Society) for identifying my mystery plant. The mystery plant has been identified as Phormium tenax or New Zealand Flax. According to Wikipedia Phormium tenax (harakeke in Māori, New Zealand flax) is an evergreen perennial plant native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5857&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery plant &#8211; do you know what this is?</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/mystery-plant-do-you-know-what-this-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner (from the Pacific Bulb Society) for identifying my mystery plant. The mystery plant has been identified as Phormium tenax or New Zealand Flax. According to Wikipedia Phormium tenax (harakeke in Māori, New Zealand flax) is an evergreen perennial plant native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5831&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree ferns in Australia</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/tree-ferns-in-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you didn&#8217;t see enough of tree ferns in my previous post (very predictably titled Tree ferns!), here are some more. These photographs were taken in Australia by Willie. He is currently there for a forestry conference &#8211; where he is hearing about, and talking about, and seeing lots of &#8211; you guessed it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5813&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree ferns</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/tree-ferns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post Animal or vegetable, the &#8220;tree&#8221; that was featured is in fact not a tree, but a tree fern. According to Wikipedia: Some species in the Cyatheales have tree-like growth forms, but others have creeping rhizomes (stems). Some species have scales on the stems and leaves, while others have hairs. However, most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5801&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal or vegetable?</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/animal-or-vegetable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any idea what this could be? No idea? . . .  Oh okay, I&#8217;ll tell you. Have a look HERE and for more information see this post. Filed under: Nature/Environment, Random Tagged: featured, nature, photos, random thoughts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5796&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption This #8 Winner</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/caption-this-8-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a tie for Caption This #8, so the honours go to two people. Barking in the Dark with the caption &#8220;Mick Jagger schmagger&#8220; is a joint winner with Kate Kresse from Believe Anyway for the caption &#8220;Feet don&#8217;t fail me now!!!&#8220;. Congratulations to you both! Also see the previous winners at the Caption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5766&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for listening WordPress!</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/thanks-for-listening-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me it all started back in July when I wrote a post about what I&#8217;d like to see in a WordPress theme. I had been driving family and friends nuts with my chatter about WordPress themes for months. Even those with blogs were beginning to roll their eyes when I started on the subject [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5755&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re back . . . a mystery solved</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/theyre-back-a-mystery-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you voted for Caption This #8 yet? If not please go here. It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! Okay, I realize that this is probably not going to be a big deal to most of you, but maybe a few of the bird lovers out there will find my news interesting. Last year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5742&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dream survey &#8211; two simple questions for YOU</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/dream-survey-two-simple-questions-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/?p=5714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, I wrote a post called I am having somebody else&#8217;s dreams. I have started on my &#8220;dream research&#8221; and there are two questions I want to ask you all &#8211; not just those who have vivid dreams. It is a very short and simple survey &#8211; only two questions. I want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5714&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption This #8</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/caption-this-8-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a tie for Caption This #8! Barking in the Dark with the caption &#8220;Mick Jagger schmagger&#8221; is a joint winner with Kate Kresse from Believe Anyway for the caption &#8220;Feet don&#8217;t fail me now!!!&#8220;. Congratulations to you both! See the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. The setting: This is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5682&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kleinmond</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/kleinmond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post called Lessons learned in taking care of a post-op patient, I wrote about going to take care of my mother in the little town she lives in. Of course I took a camera with me, and actually managed to get some nice shots of the town. &#8220;The town&#8221; is Kleinmond, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5670&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/caption-this-7-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a winner for Caption This #7 which you, the reader, voted for. To see who won go to Caption This #7. Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: notes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5681&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption This . . .</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/caption-this-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you voted for Caption This #7 yet? If not please go here. It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! The setting: This is a difficult one to caption, but give it a go anyway. I&#8217;ve noticed that some of the best captions are submitted for the most difficult photos. This male ostrich was running [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5674&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned in taking care of a post-op patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to take care of my mother after she had hip replacement surgery. Not knowing quite what to expect I, was a little worried beforehand whether I would be able to cope.  I suffer with chronic migraines and some days struggle to just take care of myself. Luckily, I was coming into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5654&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of taking your own advice</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/the-importance-of-taking-your-own-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They look just like big, friendly pussy cats don&#8217;t they? Yet all over the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (in an area known as the Kalahari), there are warnings that visitors should not get out of their vehicles. Or even dangle bits of themselves outside of their vehicles. Even if it doesn&#8217;t look like there are any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5645&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/caption-this-7-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winner of Caption This #7, wining with a huge majority, is Georgette from Georgette Sullin&#8217;s Blog with the caption “If I practice hard enough, they’ll cast me for Swan Lake.” Congratulations Georgette &#8211; a well-deserved win! Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. The setting: At the Grootkolk wilderness camp, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5632&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a winner for Caption This #6 which you, the reader, voted for. To see who won go to Caption This #6. Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. [PS: Due to an error on my part, you may have missed the winner of Caption This #5 (click on link [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5620&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t delay another minute . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you voted for Caption This #6 yet? If not, don&#8217;t delay another minute! Please go HERE to vote.  It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! Your vote counts. Filed under: Random Tagged: notes, random thoughts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5607&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you voted for Caption This #6 yet? If not please go here. It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! The setting: At the Grootkolk wilderness camp, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. During a quieter period at the water bowl, the little bird below decided to take a bath, and then sat grooming itself. I originally captioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5599&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winner of Caption This #6, by popular vote, is Barking In The Dark with the caption &#8220;What do you mean you love me? You’re a Giraffe.” Congratulations! Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. The setting: The Grootkolk Wilderness Camp (Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) at sunset. A leopard comes down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5587&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am having somebody else&#8217;s dreams</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/i-am-having-somebody-elses-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be away from home for a while. Not a vacation though &#8211; I&#8217;m going to go and stay with a family member who has recently had surgery. For those of you who know me, do not panic! I&#8217;m just there to do the domestic tasks, walk the dog, answer the phone, keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5573&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Dreaming under a Kalahari moon</media:title>
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		<title>Your Vote Counts!</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/your-vote-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I sound like an election official, but we (me and all the people who took time to think up a caption) do need you to vote. From the number of hits the Caption This series is getting, I know it&#8217;s popular. I just have a little problem &#8211; getting people to vote for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5560&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time passing &#8211; 3 seasons in 3 months</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/time-passing-3-seasons-in-3-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I have noticed more since I started taking photographs, is the changing of the seasons. Sure, I had noticed before that it was getting hotter or colder. I noticed that the trees had the leaves, or were dropping their leaves. That there were flowers, or there weren&#8217;t. But I didn&#8217;t pay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5547&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption This . . .</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/caption-this-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you voted for Caption This #5 yet? If not please go here. It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! The setting: The Grootkolk Wilderness Camp (Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) at sunset. A leopard comes down to the waterhole to drink. We (the humans) are huddling around the communal campfire a mere 50 metres away, braaing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5395&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption This #5</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/caption-this-5-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winner of Caption This #5, by popular vote, is Laura from Unlikely Explanations with the caption: “Okay, just a little to the left … a little more … there! That’s the itchy spot!”  Congratulations Laura! Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. The setting: Close to a waterhole in the Kgalagadi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5390&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Camp Cat via Notes from Africa &#124; photoblog</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-camp-cat-via-notes-from-africa-photoblog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grootkolk is a remote camp situated north of the bigger Nossob camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Here the vegetation has changed from the red dunes of the south to savanna. We always see the most beautiful sunsets at Grootkolk. It is also big predator country – lions and leopards often pass through the camp, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5432&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have a winner!</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/we-have-a-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a winner for Caption This #4 which you, the reader, voted for. To see who won go to Caption This #4. Also see the previous winners at the Caption This Winners Gallery. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: notes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5402&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News from the forest</title>
		<link>http://notesfromafrica.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/news-from-the-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisa@notesfromafrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jos Badenhorst started his story in the post If you go down to the woods today. Here&#8217;s an update . . . Guest Post for Notes from Africa by Jos Badenhorst I got a photo of “Bambi” yesterday for the first time since 12 September 2011. It is not a very good pic because the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notesfromafrica.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14418833&#038;post=5372&#038;subd=notesfromafrica&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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