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        <title><![CDATA[it has been 25 years....today is a day to catch up with old friends]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-it-has-been-25-years--37781507.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[Tonight I spoke to an old classmate to whom I have not seen for over 25 years and we arranged to meet in December. I felt the years have not changed our relationship - she's still as efficient as ever, she told me what she was doing, what she's spending her time on and how she has no time till [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-it-has-been-25-years--37781507.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[disability art - to be or not to be?]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-disability-art-to-be-or-not-to-be--37761405.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[I ve been having quite a few conversations about disability art - what constitutes disability art? do we label certain art disability art..is it art fuelled/inspired by our being disabled. At what level is art to be labeled as such? Would I want to be labeled as a practitioner of disability [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-disability-art-to-be-or-not-to-be--37761405.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[Divali and schooldays remembered]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-divali-and-schooldays-remembered-37674321.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[Today is Divali/deepavali and brings me back to the days when we celebrated it in Malaysia - where we took advantage of the open houses of our Hindu friends and visit each and everyone in their turn while stuffing ourselves with festive food.. There has been a spate of e-mails spanning [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:29:00 +0200</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-divali-and-schooldays-remembered-37674321.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rest in peace, Sam and his parents]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-32177000.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[I've been following Sam's progress for a long time - well, since 2005 when there started a website to fundraise for equipment for him http://stuff4sam.wordpress.com/ and had a link to this site since then. It is so sad to learn about his death - and that of his parents Neil and Kazumi - [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-32177000.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[Settling down in Coventry]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-29715375.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[i've been neglecting this blog because I have so many others to write and administer - I am beginning to feel I haven't got a life! But I think this blog is reserved from the other part of my working life - this is where I meander and just write about whatever I feel like. I am a bit perturbed [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-29715375.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[snow in Coventry, Lily Allen vs Leonard Cohen]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-27525278.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[It wasn't as copious as what they had in the rest of the country - certainly not as dramatic as scenes featured on the BBC - with the snowmen etc. or the skis. It wasn't more than a sprinkling which became bits of ice. Today I did go out to the railway station to meet a freind but true most of [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:38:00 +0100</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-27525278.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[disability portrayal in Asian soaps and films]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-26717895.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[ Christmas has come and gone - the days fly by and new year resolutions come and go - with many hours frittered away. One of the luxuries that I did fritter my time on is catching up on films and soaps on the internet. It was not intentional but I soon notice that some of them had disabled [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:03:00 +0100</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-26717895.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[Going home - when home is not a wheelchair user friendly environment]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-26001752.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[ I ve had been chatting with friends back home in Malaysia - because its the Christmas festive season and because class of '76 had a reunion and I was not there. I grew up with many of my classmates, from age 7 we were in the same class until 17/18 years old. We knew each other's families and [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:21:00 +0100</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-26001752.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nothing about us without us]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-25528208.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[Recently I've come across so many services, information sites etc purporting to help disabled people and making independent living more accessible. And yet upon examination, they are many geeks who love to use their PR to 'help' us. I should not be cynical - most of them do mean to be helpful [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:18:00 +0100</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-25528208.html</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[what a small world some people live in]]></title>
        <link>http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-24616144.html</link>        <description><![CDATA[I just left one disability forum - I think it was the proverbial straw - when somebody remarked on the Obama victory such: I'm not American, I don't live in America and America isn't what it used to be. And disabled was pretty far down Obama's list (right after young and old, rich and poor, [...]]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>        <guid >http://ewheeling.over-blog.com/article-24616144.html</guid>
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