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		<title>In Search of the Lost Domain</title>
		<link>http://www.common-ground.org.uk/2010/07/in-search-of-the-lost-domain/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le Grand Meaulnes: by Alain-Fournier It was thinking about Le Grand Meaulnes that first led me to the idea of Common Ground. I’d read it in my early 20s, about the same age at which Alain-Fournier had written it just before the First World War. A feeling for the book had then lingered in my ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cromarty and the Black Isle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 1969. I’m about seven years old. I am sitting in my parents’ bedroom on the ottoman at the end of their bed, upstairs in our house in St Valery Avenue in Inverness. We live in the capital of the Highlands, I know, because my mother told me. My mother says we are descended ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kidnapped:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first edition of Kidnapped sits on my desk. It’s slightly shabby now, but when it was published in 1886, its dark green cloth cover and gold lettering would have glowed with the promise of what lay inside. The first surprise would have been its folding map, titled: SKETCH of the CRUISE of the BRIG ...]]></description>
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		<title>Wet Sand and Gasoline</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a bright midwinter morning, the Fife coast gleams. Calling this corner of the ancient kingdom “a fringe of gold on a beggar’s mantle”,1 James II of Scotland clearly knew his real estate. The “East Neuk” is a beautiful sleeve of farmland – hemmed to the south by the Firth of Forth – with fishing ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Rules of Modernity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books were never my friends. Records were. Are. Not actual records, you understand; not big vinyl things. I’ve never had that nostalgia for the physical – I’m a child of Thatcher, I can’t remember an industry that made things, so I don’t need to have them in my hands. Much better, in the case of ...]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Grim Up North</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know when people say it’s grim up north? They’re right. My advice to anxious urbanites thinking of relocation is think carefully. What do you value? Where will you find it? My problem is the people – tattooed, moustachioed nosebiters choking the Saturday streets and drinking themselves rabid on two for the price of one ...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Your Voice in Burnley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Ext. Burnley Town Centre. Day] A rusty white Cortina moves slowly out of town, steering through police horses and football fans heading to Turf Moor for the match. Inside the car, the DRIVER, a tired-looking middle-aged Asian man, and his passenger, an inebriated younger man – a STRANGER to the area – are thrown around ...]]></description>
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		<title>Your Time Starts Now:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUESTION 3.b): “Rummidge is not Birmingham, though it owes something to popular prejudices about that city”,1 David Lodge. Discuss. Seven years ago, almost to the day. It was the middle of the afternoon, and the sun was just poking its head out over the green campus quadrangle. Inside Avanti, the half-empty campus diner, two people ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ecstatic Boredom</title>
		<link>http://www.common-ground.org.uk/2010/03/ecstatic-boredom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Once you’ve acquired the habit of motorway driving, it’s damned hard to kick it. You may set out on com-pletely innocuous excursions, fully intending to take the scenic route, but yet again the slip-road will suck you in, a lobster-pot ingress to the virtual reality of motorway driving.”1 Slip road In 1996, Will Self described ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Essex Factor</title>
		<link>http://www.common-ground.org.uk/2010/03/the-essex-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Once upon a time, I don’t remember when. Caught in the vacuum between now and then. Out on the road, phantom light lights to the East. The forgotten land where no roads lead. This is the Land That Time Forgot. This is the Land That Time Forgot. Call it Nowhere.” (Keith Godman, “The Land That ...]]></description>
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