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		<title>Who should decide?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proposed mosque near Ground Zero is back in the headlines today and the debate brings up all the things I hate about politics. The media know it&#8217;s a highly emotive issue, easily sensationalised to create a multitude of negative emotions and cloud the bigger picture. The perfect storm before the mid-term elections. The right wing media will try, and achieve a level of success, in influencing people to vote based on how they feel about this one controversial issue, neglecting all the other balancing factors over the past two ...]]></description>
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		<title>When the going gets tough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting a business is hard. It&#8217;s not harder than I imagined, but I wouldn&#8217;t be human if I hadn&#8217;t have hoped that it wouldn&#8217;t be quite so tough at times. The first few weeks were brilliant, building something from the initial idea and the adrenaline pumping kept me going even when I doubted I could do it, however that energy doesn&#8217;t just keep going indefinitely and now it&#8217;s the more serious side of refining the product I can&#8217;t just have an off few days. Somehow need to find the energy ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
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		<title>Another one bites the dust…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spoke far too soon. Apparently the speed at which someone can go from being so into you they make impressive changes to win you back and then deciding actually they don&#8217;t want to be with you after all is close to lightening. On this occasion I can&#8217;t have everything. My pattern with men seems to be repeating itself, though the half life is reassuringly dropping&#8230; a few years ago it was eight months, last year it was four, now I&#8217;m down to two. Soon I&#8217;ll be processing men as ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
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		<title>Relight my fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many women have written about the cloud hanging over our heads that says we can&#8217;t have everything. We don&#8217;t stop to think that &#8216;everything&#8217; means different things to different people, yet when there&#8217;s two areas of your life hanging on a knife edge there&#8217;s an assumption that you&#8217;ll only be able to save one. At the moment my life is hectic, so does that mean something has got to give?
The day job is at it&#8217;s busy peak, it&#8217;s the time of year that I have multiple deadlines looming and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/relight-my-fire/</link>
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		<title>What’s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can never quite work out why everything in life seems to happen at once, nor why when I have plenty of musings for blogs I don&#8217;t have time to write them. You&#8217;ll probably get used to seeing slightly less blogging action over the next few months (though hopefully not quite as sparse as the past few weeks), but I promise I won&#8217;t disappear completely. Writing is one of the things that keeps me sane, alongside exercise, and as the latter is still woefully lacking then I better make time ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<title>Mystery and Intrigue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed some of my strange behaviour in the past couple of week. Mysterious requests for information from friends. Weirdly ecstatic status updates. Unusual quietness from my blog. A big smile on my face for no reason whatsoever. Such creepiness should probably be saved for Halloween so I guess I owe everyone an explanation.

The first I&#8217;ll start with is, as promised, to explain my Facebook status earlier this week. For those of you who missed it, I posted: 
Describe me positively in three words (it&#8217;s for a very ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/mystery-and-intrigue/</link>
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		<title>It’s a first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a day of firsts. For starters it&#8217;s my first day back at work since injuring my leg. I&#8217;ve attempted it without crutches and thought I had quite a pace on until I got into the building and realised that I wasn&#8217;t going to get very far very fast. I&#8217;m sure as the week goes on I&#8217;ll get my speed up. Somehow I have to conquer London with luggage and a dodgy leg at the weekend. If you hear people howling with laughter in Kings Cross on Friday evening, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/opinion/its-a-first/</link>
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		<title>Control freak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So Helen? What&#8217;s all this moaning about being stuck home alone?&#8221; I hear you cry &#8220;Surely as you love writing then this is a blissful few days of space and time to write away to your hearts content?&#8221;
Well yes. I suppose I should be looking on the bright side. And most of the time I can. But it is amazing how isolating being stuck home alone with an injury is. When you have the flu/migraine/stomach bug (delete as applicable) your brain all but shuts down. You&#8217;re capable of sleep and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/control-freak/</link>
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		<title>A break from reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My blog has become a rather eclectic mix of subject matter, so I thought it was about time I threw a movie review in. Except it&#8217;s not really a movie review, because that would require critical analysis and that is something I refuse to do when it comes to Sex and the City. Everyone deserves a guilty pleasure in life and this is mine.

In the trailer Lily (Charlotte&#8217;s daughter) asks &#8220;Like in Jasmine and Aladdin?&#8221; to which Carrie replies &#8220;Yes sweetie, but with cocktails&#8221; and that is exactly what SATC2 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helenthornber.com/life/a-break-from-reality/</link>
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		<title>Run out of luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was going to be a blog about what a fantastic start my running has got off to, but as I&#8217;m writing this with my leg elevated after a morning trip to A+E that&#8217;s not quite how it&#8217;s going to go.

This morning I was on my fifth training run when something went ping and I started to experience a lot of pain in my left calf. I stopped running and limped home, then got ready for work wincing in pain. I hobbled to the bus stop and then the shock ...]]></description>
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