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		<title>A Protest March, Petitions and a Badger Book</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/06/14/a-protest-march-petitions-and-a-badger-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has been pretty amazing. The stop the badger cull petition has now surpassed quarter of a million signatures!!! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257  That&#8217;s incredible when you think about it, and shows the strength of feeling amongst the general public about the hideous badger cull policy. As people who know me are aware, I am totally against the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4602&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Official Release</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/05/29/official-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 10:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that Beatha &#8211; A Badger&#8217;s Story is now available from Amazon UK. The paperback edition is a 166 page children&#8217;s book with a retail price of £4.99. The ISBN is: 978-1489528933. Also available as an e-book with a retail price of £3.08. For more information or to request a review copy, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4580&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/05/27/may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 08:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again the blossom foams along the fence and sparrows in the eaves chatter, bright-eyed against the skim of blue. And while you sleep, turning as the Earth turns, rotating in an eye-blink, a petal falls like a longed for touch of breath brushing by your cheek. The garden seems crowded now, cluttered with sunlight, a smudge of purple, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4572&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Earth</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/04/28/mother-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She is vast, beautiful like a constellation. She and I are made up of the same stars. If you could search her eyes you would see a whole universe swirling there. Being a part of her is like riding on a spaceship, watching as the moon shines like a disco light. Don&#8217;t try to harm [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4530&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Reveal ~ Beatha &#8211; A Badger&#8217;s Story</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/04/24/cover-reveal-earth-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so excited to be able to share the new cover for my children&#8217;s book. I&#8217;m thrilled with it, and my heartfelt thanks go to Hannah Willow for allowing me to use her wonderful artwork, and to @anuwildantz for designing the cover. If all goes to plan, Beatha will be available as a paperback and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4518&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the purpose of art is...?</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/04/16/and-the-purpose-of-art-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Amanda Banks: "Sometimes, without darkness, riches will never be revealed. We need patience and faith to wait for things to unfold out of that deep valley between the two worlds…" Melanie Doherty, Bookish Nature What is art? What is dance? What is their purpose...? I remember having heated discussions in years long gone, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4515&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s the Thing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/03/12/heres-the-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you who follow my blog, know that I generally post my poetry here. But things change and I wanted to let my regular readers know that I won&#8217;t be posting much poetry for a while. I will always write poetry and hope to put together another collection at some point in the future. To [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4501&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Case of a Fox, the Badgers and the Tories</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/03/10/a-case-of-a-fox-the-badgers-and-the-tories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an irony that since the pro-hunting, pro-shooting, pro-killing things Conservative party came to power, that the fox has suddenly turned from being a shy, retiring creature into a big, fearsome beast who terrorizes and attacks small children. The hubris in the right-wing press about urban foxes, is enough to scare anyone. But let&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4497&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/03/08/the-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know there is grey in the sky at dawn for how otherwise could the mountain stream run so pure and the gardens of suburbia remain so green? I look up and see a woman looking out, lost, a lot like me, a girl clinging to the space between two breaths where flesh meets air, air [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4492&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warm Currents</title>
		<link>http://louisehastings.net/2013/02/26/warm-currents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I woke this morning, not really awake, paddling along the surface of a dream like a swan, I thought this must be what a soul is like, always there but hidden on the other side of dark. I could be the wind or trees or a bird under starlight or the ripples on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louisehastings.net&#038;blog=20877539&#038;post=4486&#038;subd=wingsoverwaters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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