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		<title>The musical world of Mutinda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Mutinda&#8217;s songwriting skills have won him a global award. That however doesn&#8217;t change much of the humble man&#8211; who will talk about such big things only if you ask him. It&#8217;s late afternoon on a hot Saturday. I am meeting Mutinda at the French cultural center&#8217;s splendid jardin where I am interviewing him for one of my TV shows. Before the start he kindly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1961&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 responses to Lord Egerton&#8217;s castle Reply</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kimani Mburu stumbled upon my post on the Lord Egerton&#8217;s castle. He sent back by far the longest reply I have ever received. I loved his mind, life policy and interpretation of the whole Egerton saga so I asked him if I could blog his reply as a new post, he agreed Below is Mburu&#8217;s castle encounter, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1898&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A mystery into Lord Egerton&#8217;s castle &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Molo, it’s a scenic 30 minutes drive that my family and I enjoy. We arrive at ‘the place where the suitor missed the target’. Not my words but the tag line on the brochure I pick at the gate on my way into the Lord Egerton castle. I am wowed at my first sight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1875&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bird &amp; itself.</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/the-bird-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s great living here but I miss my other self. I love my cage but I miss my other home. The cage is big and neat. Someone always comes to clean up, plus I am tidy so I hardly make it too dirty. He is my owner, a good man. I knew he is a man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1857&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of his colour, music &amp; paint …</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/of-his-colour-music-paint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in love with an artist. He is colour before my eyes. In front of his, I am fallen manna. I am a gift that sits pretty. I am the muse that lifts his spirits. He is needy of a piece of art- me; so yes, I am amused. He is never petty but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1782&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Make way&#8217; for Sara Mitaru’s debut single</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/make-way-for-sara-mitarus-debut-single/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black roses makes way for Sara Mitaru in a celebration of the blog’s 100th post and the first single-song review. Listen now! Complete with lyrics saramitaru.bandcamp.com. This is Sara’s debut single, and only a week old. Make way is fresh and young. However its osmosis effect spreads by the day having already made a twitter TT and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1748&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 goodness</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/2011-goodness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An awesome year it was so I decided to segregate my highlights into the things I adore most; living, loving and writing. Living I obviously lived to see this day, so thank you God. I also thank family, friends and Grapevine fans for the support. In 2011 i met a brilliant Kerugoya kido, sigh. Read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1684&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I fell in love with Paa Ya Paa …</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/how-i-fell-in-love-with-paa-ya-paa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not only an art centre but at its centre is tranquility. The sun is blazing on the late afternoon when I arrive at the Paa Ya Paa on a motorbike that saves me the walk from the junction off Kiambu road. The silence is convivial, the birds are singing and the banana trees are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1618&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lone poodle.</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/the-lone-poodle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most poodles from Runda, Ridgeways and such high-end residential areas have custom-made backyards, just to facilitate their need to exercise and run around. When they have to get out of their plush compounds, I am almost as certain as the sun will set that no big dog or monster would eat them. They walk majestically on the smooth terrain of roads, unaware of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1576&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Reasons to love your JOB like your man</title>
		<link>http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/7-reasons-to-love-your-job-like-your-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Roses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The Search Looking for a good man is just like searching for a good job. It has to satisfy you, keep you busy, provide for you and make you happy. Fundamentally if you leave either of the two, a good experience should be the ultimate by-product. It starts with the chase towards that interview which is just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyiko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670002&amp;post=1508&amp;subd=anyiko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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