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	<title>Stephen Witherden's Website</title>
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	<description>A website about my interests: baking, software, photography, religion, politics and sex.</description>
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		<title>Goodbye Granny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Goodbye Granny&#8221; I said as I got up to leave. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll see you again&#8221; I lied bravely &#8220;I&#8217;ll come visit South Africa or something&#8221;.
&#8220;Hope I&#8217;m alive when you do&#8221; she voiced my unspoken fear.
My grandmother leaves New Zealand tomorrow morning, after spending some precious months here visiting my father in Wellington. She and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/angst/goodbye-granny/</link>
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		<title>Deo Fretus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was cleaning out my drawers, going through clothes I need to get rid of, when I came across a little bit of my own personal history: my Deo Fretus t-shirt. Now, Deo Fretus (in God we trust) was the motto of my high school and also the name of the quintet I was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/angst/deo-fretus/</link>
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		<title>Say Uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 2:44am on the 17th December, Caleb James Simpkin, my first nephew was born to my sieter Susan and her husband David. It&#8217;s a strange yet familiar sensation. My parents both had younger kids and so I am quite used to babies. At the same time, this is a whole new generation I&#8217;m holding in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/say-uncle/</link>
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		<title>Coming out to Granny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day before my 30th birthday my granny Cynthia recently turned 84. The last 4 years of her life have been spent looking after her dying husband, so now that he&#8217;s passed away, she&#8217;s at a little bit of a loss. Life&#8217;s been hard these past few years and it&#8217;s been a bit of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/gay/coming-out-to-granny/</link>
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		<title>Stephen&#8217;s off to War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have followed my blog for some years now will remember that I had a run in with an interesting guy while I was in Texas. Stephen (confusingly sharing my name) was my second boyfriend and the first guy that I guess you could say I had anything approaching a relationship with. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/angst/stephens-off-to-war/</link>
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		<title>Huka Falls Jet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, at the end of October, I took a nice long trip down the length of the North Island from Auckland to Palmerston North to go to my Boss Llanwyn&#8217;s Halloween party. On the way down, I spent some time with my friends Chris and Charles.
Now, Chris and Charles have a special [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/photos/huka-falls-jet/</link>
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		<title>Cigarettes on the balcony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hit the bed with a muted thud. It had been a long day and an even longer night. My parents were up from Hamilton and, along with other family and friends, we’d celebrated being together with food, drink and Singstar.
I rolled over and checked my phone. It was about 3:30am, we’d just seen the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/cigarettes-on-the-balcony/</link>
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		<title>30, so now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, I recently turned 30. It was an unremarkable milestone as milestones go. Last year I threw a nice big party and invited a whole lot of people. This year, I just had a small group, we drank, ate and talked a little. The next day Sam made me a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/angst/30-so-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Argh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to celebrate Sarah&#8217;s imminent PhD graduation and International Speak like a Pirate Day, a bunch of us got dressed up as pirates and had a bit of a party at our place.
Not much to say except that we all had a great time. More pics are available by clicking the link: International Talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loud Shirt Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday 18th September was Loud Shirt Day. To contribute, I bought a cheap white shirt from the Warehouse along with some fabric paint from Spotlight. I then spent about 4 hours on Thursday night making my own tribute to Loud Shirt Day.
You can see a time lapse video of how I made the shirt by [...]]]></description>
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