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		<title>Dakar made mini</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been in Dakar for a week now and believe me, this is a city of contrasts. I’ve driven along smooth motorways with blue French signs and brand new peage tollbooths and seen young kids begging by the roadside for food and coins. I’ve watched shiny new buses that wouldn’t look out of place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Pulman had a lot to say about dust in his His Dark Materials trilogy but I suspect it’s not the same variety of dust that I’ve been getting to know lately. Last weekend the Sahara blew in. We woke up to find the world around us covered in a fine layer of orange dust. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Genie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 17:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Eugenie Clark&#8217;s 90th birthday. To celebrate here is my blog post from last year, after I had the immense pleasure of meeting Genie at Mote Marine Labs in Florida&#8230; They say never meet your heroes. But I did. I sat in a diner and ate junk food with her and it was perfect. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead fish mystery solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those dead fish on the beach getting munched by vultures that appeared in my first Gambian post? (some without heads?) Well, I’ve found out where they’re coming from. I met Chris, a fisheries biologist visiting from the US who’s working with a local project called Ba Nafaa. He’s out here helping local fishermen find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahelian riches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few days I’ve been paying my first visits to fishing communities here in the Gambia. I’ve met and chatted with my first fishermen; I’ve seen baskets of fish being pulled from the sea and balanced on the heads of young Ghanaian men who run up the beach to waiting traders, little kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On sand dollars and dead fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here I am in the Gambia. It’s a country I hadn’t thought a great deal about until a few months ago. I didn’t know it takes the shape of a sliver running along the River Gambia, poking a meandering finger into Senegal. I didn’t know how small it is – just over 4000 square [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff</title>
		<link>http://helenscales.com/2012/04/09/stuff/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stuff</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the giveaway signs that we’re about to go on a long trip is the upswing in the amount of stuff being delivered to our house. In the past 5 days we have taken delivery of two kindles, two cameras, two external hard drives, two pairs of trail running shoes, one netbook, one voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m going to West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one week I will be in West Africa. It’ll be the first time I’ve visited sub Saharan Africa and I’m oh so very excited about it. It’ll be the first big trip in years that I’ve been on with my husband (The Other Dr Scales). In 2005 we lived together on Madagascar’s wild west [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the north Norfolk coast</title>
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		<comments>http://helenscales.com/2012/03/23/notes-on-the-north-norfolk-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time yesterday I was standing on a gigantic sandy beach. The sun was shining down from a cloudless sky, miniature waves breaking around the legs of exotic-looking seabirds that probed the sand with long beaks, and I felt like I was in another country. In fact all I’d done was drive two-hours north and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering a day at the beach</title>
		<link>http://helenscales.com/2012/01/09/day-at-the-beach/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=day-at-the-beach</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2012 began for me with a long, rainy drive back home (after a week of glorious idleness with my parents) and for the first time this winter I felt the tug of summer. Of bare feet, no coat, and green trees. But all that is a way off and we’re settling in for the long haul [...]]]></description>
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