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		<title>Living in an artist&#8217;s house</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have found blogging hard these last few months. I have been busy. Or perhaps I am just not  a blogger, not committed? I have been teaching at Totleigh Barton and The Hurst for Arvon with that nice poet Cliff Yates and that young David Flufeder. I have been working on edits of the memoir, due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=448&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But you can&#8217;t cut me off!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a huge cardboard box arrived from Chicago. It was very exciting opening it. Inside a big purple hatbox and inside the hatbox a mountain of sexy and expensive chocolates &#8211; a gift from Barbara Kingsolver. My flatmate, Kina, a chocoholic almost fainted when he saw the cache. This gift has been very gratefully received. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=445&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, what a week that was</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had an incredible ten days. I was back at Totleigh Barton, in Devon, looking after a grand old house. I then heard the news that I have been short-listed &#8211; for the Orange Prize. Four days later, I turned forty-five. I went to Cornwall to stay with a friend; I came back. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=442&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasies, fantasies&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trinidadian journalist Andre Bagoo has just uplaoded an interview with me on PLEASURE, an arts/books/pleasure website in Trinidad. Oops. I was silly enough to relay my fantasies about Trinidad&#8217;s handsome Prime Minister. And now there is an election brewing in Trinidad, just like here. Dear Mr Manning, can we talk? You can  read the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=437&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truly Madly Tote-lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be in Devon next week. The village of Sheepwash, to be precise. I&#8217;ll be looking after a very old and charismatic house which I love very much. The house is called Totleigh Barton (pronounced Tote-lee Barton by locals) which is now the oldest of three houses owned by The Arvon Foundation. Totleigh is made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=431&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>strong coffee, buns and being a writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just focusing on my emails, over coffee and toasted buns, when that nice Mr John Self sent me the following online review. Sigh. Made my day. I feel a warm glow spread through me. http://blog.otherstories.co.uk/2010/04/the-white-woman/ For what it&#8217;s worth it&#8217;s reviews like this, come from outside the media, that make a writer&#8217;s life all add [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moniqueroffey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5943228&amp;post=427&amp;subd=moniqueroffey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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