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<channel><title><![CDATA[DORSET COMPOSER - RICK BIRLEY - Rick Birley Blog]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rickbirley.com/rick-birley-blog]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rick Birley Blog]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:08:25 +0100</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[First post, from Yorkshire]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rickbirley.com/rick-birley-blog/first-post-from-yorkshire]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rickbirley.com/rick-birley-blog/first-post-from-yorkshire#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:06:19 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rickbirley.com/rick-birley-blog/first-post-from-yorkshire</guid><description><![CDATA[       Today I start a blog. This is intended to be a kind of diary, both of what I am doing generally, and also what I am doing with my music and my art.  There will be photographs, miscellaneous points of interest, inevitably some political & social observations, poetry drafts, and the like. The posts will be as much for my benefit as anybody else&rsquo;s, a way of recording memories both of what I do and what I think, and an ongoing and constant measure of my state of mind.Today has only just [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="https://www.rickbirley.com/uploads/2/9/0/6/2906936/img-20170717-155611_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph">Today I start a blog. This is intended to be a kind of diary, both of what I am doing generally, and also what I am doing with my music and my art.  There will be photographs, miscellaneous points of interest, inevitably some political & social observations, poetry drafts, and the like. The posts will be as much for my benefit as anybody else&rsquo;s, a way of recording memories both of what I do and what I think, and an ongoing and constant measure of my state of mind.<br />Today has only just begun. I am in Yorkshire, staying in a youth hostel near Todmorden. Sally is a volunteering warden and we are here for the week.<br /><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>