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		<title>Great Sport, Great Cause, Great Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Team Ettinger writes: For the past year, Ettinger has been proud to be associated with British Polo Day, a series of polo matches between British teams and friends contested in locations around the world. Polo is believed to have originated in Persia around the fifth century B.C. as a contest between cavalry units; the British [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=139&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up and Down in Greece</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Ettinger writes: My wife and I love to travel, and one of the places we love to visit the most is Greece. Over the years, we have bicycled on many of the islands; we&#8217;ve enjoyed countless days and nights of exploring, eating and drinking; we&#8217;ve become friends with numerous locals and fellow visitors. Travelling [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=133&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British Heritage Meets Ancient Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Team Ettinger writes: This past 30 May, Ettinger was pleased to participate again in the Walpole Press Day at Somerset House here in London. The Walpole Group is an organisation that promotes luxury British brands in the UK and throughout the world; we&#8217;ve been involved in these press days for about six years now, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=125&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weather or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Ettinger writes: I usually take weather forecasts with a pinch of salt, and I am even more sceptical of long-range forecasts. So when I read, several weeks ago, that our record-breaking April rain would stretch into May, I didn&#8217;t take it very seriously. As it turned out, they were right. But that still didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=120&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Torch Relay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team Ettinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Team Ettinger writes: The Olympics have been coming to London for so long (London was announced as the host of the 2012 Olympics in July 2005) that it&#8217;s sometimes seemed that they would never actually arrive. To be sure, anyone living or spending any time in the east end of London the past few years [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=109&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>60 Years in the Making: A Special Whisky for a Special Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team Ettinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Ettinger writes: One of the great pleasures of being in this business is the opportunity to meet so many fascinating people all  over  the world. Sometimes, these people visit us here in our showroom on Putney Bridge Road. One of these occasions occurred in early May, when Jonathan Driver of John Walker &#38; Sons [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=92&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reign, Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team Ettinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Team Ettinger writes: It&#8217;s been over a week since the Diamond Jubilee pageant — the spectacular 1000-plus boat flotilla down the Thames to celebrate the Queen&#8217;s sixty-year reign — and now that we&#8217;re finally warm and completely dry, it seems time to reflect on the experience. We arrived at 10:30, which was early enough to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=42&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Choose the Best of Times</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsonlifeandleather.com/2012/05/02/ill-choose-the-best-of-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team Ettinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Ettinger writes: Many might think that pessimism is the order of the day — with headlines describing unimaginable woes around the world, our own economy lumbering along, our weather being more apocalyptic than British — but I can&#8217;t help but be upbeat about things. To be sure, there are many serious issues that have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=14&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from Ettinger</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsonlifeandleather.com/2012/03/25/greetings-from-ettinger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our blog. We hope you&#8217;ll find it interesting, informative, and entertaining, as we share our thoughts and ideas on life, travel, culture, society — anything and everything that sparks our imagination. On occasion, we&#8217;ll even mention news about a particular leather goods manufacturer. You&#8217;ll be seeing blog posts from Robert Ettinger, as well [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonlifeandleather.com&#038;blog=34243387&#038;post=5&#038;subd=thoughtsonlifeandleather&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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