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Tekapo</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-15T08:04:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2014/01/22/siem-reap-where-i-left-a-part-of-my-heart/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0342.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0342</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0423.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0423</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0223.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0223</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_02731.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0273</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0233.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0233</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0073.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0073</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0063.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0063</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0182.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0182</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0174.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0174</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_0337.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0337</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-01-22T22:44:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/12/11/eastbourne-an-anthology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dsc_0296.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0296</image:title><image:caption>Anne Manchester, co-editor (whose work also appears in the anthology).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dsc_02991.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0299(1)</image:title><image:caption>Lloyd Jones (one of the famous faces) reading from his work.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dsc_0298.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0298</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dsc_03141.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0314(1)</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dsc_03121.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0312(1)</image:title><image:caption>John Horrocks, poet and neighbour, 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out).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-11T21:50:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/08/31/sunlight-and-seamus-heaney/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/wallcoo_com_chinese_plum_blossom_17ga010.jpg</image:loc><image:title>[wallcoo_com]_Chinese_plum_blossom_17GA010</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/heaney2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>heaney2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-09-01T03:46:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/08/09/its-my-best-book/</loc><lastmod>2013-08-14T21:05:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/07/26/tooth-and-nail/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img_00741.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0074</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img_0074-e1374796656802.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0074</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img3831.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img3831</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-27T04:06:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/06/07/changing-course/</loc><lastmod>2013-06-22T03:10:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/04/16/right-and-left/</loc><lastmod>2013-04-16T19:35:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/03/12/the-way-we-live-now/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-12-11-17-30.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reading 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sculpture</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/the-voice.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Voice</image:title><image:caption>Edvard Munch</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/madonna.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Madonna</image:title><image:caption>Edvard Munch</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/santodomingo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SantoDomingo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-05T19:12:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/02/13/mainlining-mansfield/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/days_bay_eastbourne_1920s.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Days_Bay,_Eastbourne_1920s</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dsc_13401.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_1340</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dsc_1340.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me, kayaking almost in front of the Days Bay holiday home of KM</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mans_portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mans_portrait</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-13T21:07:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2013/01/29/from-maleme-to-mapua/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0962.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ruby Bay</image:title><image:caption>Ruby Bay</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0954.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0954</image:title><image:caption>Ruby Bay</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0976.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0976</image:title><image:caption>Mapua wharf with the ferry that crosses to my favourite childhood beach, Rabbit Island</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00031.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00031</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00018.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00018</image:title><image:caption>Suda Bay cemetery where the Kiwi soldiers lie</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00007.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00007</image:title><image:caption>New Zealand graves at Suda Bay</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00060.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00060</image:title><image:caption>The German graveyard at Maleme</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00061.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00061</image:title><image:caption>Stone crosses on the hillside among the graves at Maleme</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc00065.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00065</image:title><image:caption>The graveyard at Maleme of German paratroopers killed in the battle of Crete </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-30T07:07:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/12/21/the-ghosts-of-christmas-past/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pavlova.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The ghosts of Christmas past</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/little-women.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Little Women</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/img_0044.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0044</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/img_0041.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0041</image:title><image:caption>Uncle's Gripstand mixing bowl (that might well have been my grandmothers) </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-22T23:31:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2011/06/02/the-milford-milestones/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mckinnons-pass-miso-soup-stop.jpg</image:loc><image:title>McKinnon's Pass  - Miso Soup stop</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/the-mt-cook-lily-footlights.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Mt Cook Lily footlights</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/quintin-lodges-house-guest-blue-duck3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Quintin Lodge's house guest - blue duck</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pretty-carnivore1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pretty carnivore</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/quintin-lodges-house-guest-blue-duck2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Quintin Lodge's house guest - blue duck</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/two-rare-blue-ducks-having-fun1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Two rare blue ducks having fun</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/in-the-milford-sound-at-the-end-of-the-tour2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>In the Milford Sound at the end of the tour</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/more-of-grannys-axminster-carpet1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>More of Granny's Axminster carpet</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/the-beautiful-milford-sound.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The beautiful Milford 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can't find the exact floral pattern, but I think it was the rose and peony pattern but I'm sure there was more blue and grey than green, but it's funny how memory works, I may be wrong.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bs-rubber-hot-water-bottle-tm-rrbs20001.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BS-Rubber-Hot-Water-Bottle-TM-RRBS20001-</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/stumped25-001.jpg</image:loc><image:title>stumped25-001</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/09871e9a48636b4b4dd4b4d2215995efo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>09871e9a48636b4b4dd4b4d2215995efo</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gty_andy_williams_dm_120926_wg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gty_andy_williams_dm_120926_wg</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-29T05:10:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/09/10/working-in-the-sixties/</loc><lastmod>2012-11-03T02:01:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/08/10/cona-coffee-and-a-club-sandwich-please/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-555.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bestemor 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seventies</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-529.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-529</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-530.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-530</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-2821.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-2821</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-259.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-259</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-282.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-282</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-092.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-092</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-257.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slides-from-the-70s-257</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/slides-from-the-70s-265.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Norge</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-03T09:38:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/07/22/anzac-biscuits/</loc><lastmod>2015-05-05T05:09:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/06/25/diana-and-the-golden-apples/</loc><lastmod>2012-06-25T19:58:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/06/13/the-all-blacks-of-literature/</loc><lastmod>2012-06-14T18:36:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/2012/05/31/brother-of-the-more-famous-jack/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://acurioushalfhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/img_2420.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brother 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