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	<title>Diary of a deckbitch...</title>
	<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com</link>
	<description>My life on a webpage...</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A division of labour&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/11/22/a-division-of-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit quiet in here innit?  A few reasons for that, the main one being is that I now have a seperate blog for the general Orkney life stuff - you can find it here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/islandblogging/blogs/005592/index.shtml
I wanted to try to keep this blog for much more of the diving side of my life, and since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the farm and drowning in mud</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/11/06/back-on-the-farm-and-drowning-in-mud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving back on the farm I went through the usual 24 hours of not feeling quite right.  Suddenly all the things i needed i had left on the boat, plus it was almost like worrying about a child that had been left alone for the first time.  Knowing we had doubled the ropes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They think its all over&#8230;&#8230;it is now!</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/27/they-think-its-all-overit-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And with the turning of a key, the dive season for 2007 comes to an end.  The rumble that has been a pivotal part of my existence for the past months slowly comes to a stop as the 500hp engine falls silent a few feet below us.  A high five is exchanged and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A week off</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/18/a-week-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, for a few days I find myself back on the farm, doing lots of little jobs to help the world carry on turning.  Well, the little bit of the world that is Northfield anyway.  
Today the flow looked like a mirror as we drive towards Stromness to move the boat from one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragedy of the Irene</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/11/the-tragedy-of-the-irene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grabbing some binoculars from the drawer I peer with some difficulty towards the shore of South Ronaldsay. We were making for Kirkwall, Orkney, a five hour journey by sea from Stromness via the Pentland Firth. A rolling easterly swell gently pushed us to a five degree roll, severely diminishing my ability to focus on what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the season looms</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/09/end-of-the-season-looms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[September blog
Concrete wet from the nights rain reflects the gray of the sky above and drips are blown from their rest by the wind, torn into droplets of spray and carried off to fall elsewhere.  Tides ebb and flow, leaving the harbour walls darkened from their passing and life surges on surrounded by the ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies for no blog</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/07/apologies-for-no-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Really sorry for the lack of activity, but i have been a little busy&#8230;.. not that its a bad thing of course, keeps me out of mischeif&#8230;.. hehe
There is a blog entry on its way, but i am suitably unorganised to have brought it with me to the farm.  Nowt ever changes.
Take care,
H
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		<title>Trials, tribulations and trimix</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/09/10/trials-tribulations-and-trimix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The harsh alarm cuts through the relaxed atmosphere in the wheelhouse.  The DSC automatically sets the radio to channel 16 and we both stand waiting for the announcement to come over the crackly speaker.  Gale force 8 expected soon, then 10 minutes later expected Fair Isle Imminent.  An air of order comes over the boat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dammit</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/09/10/dammit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, i did have a nice big blog update to go in here, but somewhere between the boat laptop and the library it seems to have fallen off the memory stick.  Maybe its hanging around the bottom of my pocket with all the bits of fluff and tissue that has been through the wash&#8230;.
I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Hjaltland.</title>
		<link>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/08/02/journey-to-hjaltland/</link>
		<comments>http://helen.thedeepstop.com/2007/08/02/journey-to-hjaltland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing the jar of blackcurrant jam slowly rise from the space where it had been wedged, hover in midair and then crash to the floor, breaking into a million glittering shards was slightly surreal.  The slowly expanding pool of stickiness testament to the weather knocking us around.  Making our way around Copinsay to Kirkwall the [...]]]></description>
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