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		<title>What happens when a ‘Wannabe Hack’ works for free and it all goes slightly pear-shaped?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had an article published on the Wannabe Hacks site under the headline - The Perils of pitching and forgetting to ask for credit which was an advice post based on the story below &#160; * * * * *  What happens when a ‘Wannabe Hack’ work for free and it all goes slightly pear-shaped? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=937&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship and Diversity: Barbara and Doreen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Baddoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Baddoo and Doreen Page have been Best-Friends for 80 years, meeting at Sunday School in one of Winchmore Hill&#8217;s (North London) churches. I chatted to them about their friendship&#8230; where Doreen revealed that on the voyage she took to Ghana in 1958 to visit Barbara and growing family, she sent a message in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=934&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Sex I Ever Had Was The Sex I Never, Ever Had&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking to gather together a collection of stories for publication. &#160; It&#8217;s working title is - &#8216;The Best Sex I Ever Had Was The Sex I Never, Ever Had&#8217; Basically, I&#8217;ve developed this idea off the back of The Virginity Project -  http://virginityproject.typepad.com/ and the general trend (and popularity) of writing candidly about sex, good and/or bad. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=930&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sometimes I Stumble and Fall&#8217; &#8211; An Open Letter To Ozwald Boateng</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You turned an otherwise competent, 22-year-old, wannabe journalist into a trembling wreck. I got the shock of my life as I got out of the car and saw your handsome self saunter into Sheffield’s independent Cinema, the Showroom. The Doc/Fest was well into it&#8217;s fourth day, but I&#8217;d missed most of it due to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=899&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Is It Any Wonder Our Perception Of Beauty Is Distorted?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://candidconvo.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/is-it-any-wonder-our-perception-of-beauty-is-distorted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dove Campaign For Real Beauty,  Evolution Photoshopping includes lengthening her neck, adjusting the curve of her shoulder, pumping her lips, adjusting her hair and skin, enlarging her eye and raising her browline. Conclusion  &#8211; &#8216;Is It Any Wonder Our Perception Of Beauty Is Distorted?&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=895&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I &lt;3 Ur Style &#8211; Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men whose style I rate&#8230;.. Tinie Tempah &#8211; Pop Star/Rapper Boy George &#8211; 80s Pop star President Mobutu (d. 1997) &#8211; Ex dictator of DR Congo. He may have carried out all sorts of unspeakable things, but he never went anywhere without his leopard skin cap Johnny Depp &#8211; Actor Fresh Prince &#8211; Will Smith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=880&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dating Game #03 &#8211; A Tale of Two Contraceptive Methods</title>
		<link>http://candidconvo.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-dating-game-03-a-tale-of-two-contraceptive-methods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Candid Conversationalist</dc:creator>
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		<title>Alternative Histories pt 2</title>
		<link>http://candidconvo.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/alternative-histories-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If my Mum had married a white, British man I would have grown up in Guildford or Dulwich, y’know, somewhere suitably middle-class. Mummy and Daddy would have been overly zealous in their church going in order that I get into the best Church of England primary School. I would have had Piers, my best friend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=862&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Histories</title>
		<link>http://candidconvo.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/alternative-histories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of my lastest assignment for my creative writing course. If my Dad had married a Ghanaian, black lady/If my Mum had married a British, white man. Introduction: I really enjoy the genre of Alternative Fiction (Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, Foe by J.M. Coetzee, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=857&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://candidconvo.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/womens-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. A mate of mine entered at photography competition with the following brief &#8211;  produce a photo or a small series (4 pictures max) around the topic ‘A Portrait of Cultural Diversity: International Women at the University of Southampton’ Dave decided to focus on our hair. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidconvo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12179837&amp;post=852&amp;subd=candidconvo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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