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		<title>Lair of the Nerd vs Primark</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/10/lair-of-the-nerd-vs-primark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why isn&#8217;t Lair of the Nerd stuff as cheap as Primark? Well, without the weight of a multi-million pound business behind us we can&#8217;t get thousands of garments printed all at once in some abroad place. Not only are all LotN designs made by me, but also we use printers in the UK (or in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Profile: Lleu Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civilian expert Lleu Jones is twenty-seven, though looks much younger than his age to many people.  Most of that likely comes from the way he acts, his posture, and the way he carries himself.  In conversations he can sometimes seem distracted, even to the point that he seems to be ignoring people, but in fact [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/08/illustrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short stories I&#8217;ve published thus far have all featured covers produced by me. I studied computer graphics at university, and have been working on artistic ventures to a lesser or greater extent ever since. I think Tolkien is probably the most famous author to also illustrated their own work, with many editions of his [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Focus</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/08/lack-of-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roses are red, Music is cool, I&#8217;ve got ADHD, ooh look a squirrel. I grew up as a hyperactive child before any real proper diagnosis of ADD was ever done, and managed to some extent with a restricted diet free of many of the stupider E numbers. So perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining &#8220;Big&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/08/redefining-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first city I designed for my fantasy world was Venn, a city that in my mind&#8217;s eye was about the size of Medieval York &#8211; a rough circle of about 1km diameter. For the Great City of Azinor though, the greatest city in my world, seat of the Ministerial Synod&#8230; I want to convey a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bargain: Onwards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/07/red-bargain-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the past several months I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life.. about what I can do with my life.  To be honest, part of me would love to be able to go and get a job and just work like a normal person.  But I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the designs 1: Adventures of a Soft Kitty</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/03/behind-the-designs-1-adventures-of-a-soft-kitty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to what will be the first in a series of blog posts looking at the creation process of some of my favourite Lair of the Nerd designs: Adventures of a soft Kitty. The cat is named Pippin and is the brother of Newton, the cat who appears on other Lair of the Nerd designs [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>To Business!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/02/to-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast..&#8221; &#8211; Ford Prefect. So.. yeah; things have been quiet on the blog front for a while :oops: but that&#8217;s because fun and interesting and.. erm.. &#60;_&#60;  scary.. things have been happening. To cut to the chase &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to make Lair of the Nerd a business [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>So.. now what?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/07/so-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fantasy novel, which is now renamed &#8220;The Harbinger Rises&#8221; &#8211; Book I of The Red Bargain has now been completed.  Or at least, the first draft has been. 116265 words including the glossary, which is about at the level I expected it / planned it to be. So; now I need to get a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mappe</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/mappe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, as you may know, I&#8217;m doing my best to write a fantasy epic that I hope to get published properly and be like a real author or something. All fantasy epics need a map, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working on today.. It&#8217;s slow going because I&#8217;m effectively making it poster sized (much larger [&#8230;]]]></description>
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