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	<title>Helen Thornber</title>
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		<title>If only this was goodbye&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had another episode of dealing with BT and have written a letter of complaint to post tomorrow that I&#8217;m sure will end up with a reply of &#8220;we&#8217;re sorry but there is nothing we can do.&#8221; I&#8217;m fed up of run ins with BT so I decided to pen the letter I wish I could send them instead&#8230;
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BT,
You screwed up again. After our hours on the phone, back in 2008, I thought I’d finished with you. It was messy and tiring. You couldn’t accept that you had faults ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/if-only-this-was-goodbye/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Voyage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While my faith in bus services may be at an all time low, today a little bit of faith was restored in our trains. Or at least Virgin Trains.
Returning from a work trip to Warwick University (whose campus is deceptively nearer Coventry than it&#8217;s namesake) we had seats booked on a specific train. I&#8217;m not a fan of advanced tickets, as soon as I purchase one I know the gods are plotting a well timed disruption to ensure I miss the one and only service it is valid on. Lo ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/virgin-voyage/</link>
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		<title>Design Bitch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a bitch. This comes as a bit of a revelation to me. Generally in day to day work I keep my cool. I explain to people why they need to do something and the benefits to them. If they don&#8217;t get it quite right I&#8217;m nice, constructive and help them improve. I am usually the good cop. In my current job I&#8217;ve only had one full on strop (I blame PMT). But when it comes to design it turns out that I can tell it like is.

In terms ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/communications/design-bitch/</link>
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		<title>Nothing to report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in a long time I find myself in a peculiar position. I don&#8217;t have a crush on someone. Anyone. Usually if there&#8217;s no one in the present I can dig something up from my past, stick the rose tinted glasses on and swoon away. Sometimes some kind of relationship however vague, complicated or seemingly normal develops from these crushes. Other times they remain a purely one sided thing.
But for the time being I am sans crush. Well except for in the land of celebrity men where, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/nothing-to-report/</link>
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		<title>The bus rant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the over enthusiastic loud honk by the bus driver on a Durham roundabout this evening I can only conclude I had a near death experience. His subsequent over enthusiasm in hitting the breaks in non-life-threatening situations can only suggest I was lucky to survive.Yet I am grateful at this time of year for any bus turning up within a 30 minute window. Once the ice is gone and the evenings get lighter I can walk to and from Durham (aside from the event of the odd torrential downpour). But ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/the-bus-rant/</link>
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		<title>Getting Kreativ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello to you all on another snow covered day in Durham. However the great thaw has started. Today it&#8217;s a balmy 4 oC, rooftops and cars are starting to emerge. But before I bore you to death with another blog on snow I realise I haven&#8217;t yet written my blog post on the Kreativ Blogger Award which Katie McCullough nominated me for just before Christmas:

&#8220;I nominate Helen because I’ve never seen such an eclectic bunch of posts on one blog. You name it she’s got it; politics, writing, photography, lifestyle, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/getting-kreativ/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s better to have loved and lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I am quite disappointed with my attitude these past few days. I&#8217;ve been all doom and gloom about the snow and missed out on really appreciating it for the relatively short time it is here. I can pinpoint the time I got fed up to when I waited almost an hour and a half for a bus that never came. This was last Thursday, the coldest day of the year. It wasn&#8217;t even the fault of the snow. It was the temperature. But that was ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/its-better-to-have-loved-and-lost/</link>
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		<title>Love it or Hate it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless the predictions are wildly off, this Thursday will see three weeks of snow in Durham. Although I&#8217;ve been away for half that time I have been assured (moaned at) by plenty of people that the snow hasn&#8217;t disappeared from the ground throughout this time. When I returned on New Years Eve it did look like it might be making an attempt to thaw, but I woke on Sunday morning to a new thick blanket of soft snow. And it is proper powdery snow. The small amounts of snow I&#8217;ve ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/love-it-or-hate-it/</link>
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		<title>On with the teenies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The decimal system has a lot to answer for. If we were based on a Octal system then I&#8217;m sure I wouldn&#8217;t have spent the past two days being quite as fed up. The first eight years of this decade were pretty great. There were lots of ups and downs, but the main thing was that I moved forward. Most significantly in terms of my mental health. Also with education and career. But the last two years of the decade haven&#8217;t been quite so fantastic thanks to one big bully. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/on-with-the-teenies/</link>
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		<title>It was a Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Christmas has been the season of merriment and I&#8217;ve been well enough to succeed in doing all the things that happen at this time of year! I&#8217;m looking forward to chilling out the next few days and recharging the batteries as I am very tired as a result&#8230; even writing is a bit of a struggle and that&#8217;s never a good sign (hence the demise of blogging since Boxing Day). There&#8217;s also been a bit of coughing and sneezing so I&#8217;m just praying I don&#8217;t get a full blown ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/it-was-a-merry-christmas/</link>
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