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	<description>Helping to turn a drawing hobby into a cartooning profession</description>
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		<title>Home from Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home!
I went in to theatre at 2pm on Monday for a microdiscectomy and was back in the ward by about 5:30pm. The anaesthetic they gave me was fantastic - I asked three nurses and the neurosurgeon to marry me in the time that I was waking up!
Seriously, the procedure went as well as it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/04/30/home-from-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Surgery Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone has been keeping track, tomorrow will hopefully be the end of twenty years or so of back trouble!
I&#8217;ll be going into hospital at 10am on April 28th and operated on later that day. I&#8217;m scared to death, but looking forward to being pain free and back into life!
And then, hopefully, we can kick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/04/27/surgery-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, sorry for the lack of content appearing on Chewing Pencils. The situation with my back hasn&#8217;t really improved and I&#8217;ve spent lots of time flat on the ground or high on pain killers!
Surgery is scheduled for April 28th, which means I&#8217;ve got a week and a bit to show some sort of improvement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/04/17/surgery/</link>
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		<title>The Good News and the Bad News&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From October, every time I walk into a room, you will have to bow down in front of me and call me Reverend.
Well, not really, but in the non-cartooning part of my life, I will be ordained by the Baptist Union of Victoria as a recognised and accredited minister of the gospel.
It&#8217;s staggering who they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/03/19/the-good-news-and-the-bad-news/</link>
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		<title>Another back update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it seems that that the epidural injection, as fun as it was, hasn&#8217;t worked and I&#8217;m back to square one with my back.
The pain is progressively becoming worse and a few times today I endured spasms that more or less paralysed me. 
Needless to say, I&#8217;ve returned to spending most of my time flat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/03/04/another-back-update/</link>
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		<title>Thirty Minutes of Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve survived the injection, but only just&#8230;
I went into the surgery and the doctor laid me face down on the bed before giving me a little anaesthetic in the lower back. With a kindly, &#8220;This might hurt a little,&#8221; he started to give me the epidural injection.
Well, the pain was excruciating. For the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/02/26/thirty-minutes-of-pain/</link>
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		<title>Off to Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the back is getting no better.
I&#8217;m still here on the floor, swimming in pain killers thankful for a wireless network so I can still do a little bit of web work and the like. Sitting down is impossible, so drawing is all but out.
I saw my doctor on Wednesday morning, who then pulled some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/02/21/off-to-hospital/</link>
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		<title>How to Draw Caricatures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d love to be able to draw caricatures.
But honestly, I suck at it.
My caricatures only resemble the subject if I draw the person from behind, at great distance, in the dark&#8230;
But Tom Richmond is brilliant at it. Once again graciously shared his knowledge with a series on &#8216;How to Draw Caricatures&#8217; over at his Mad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/02/15/how-to-draw-caricatures/</link>
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		<title>A pain in the&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a few days after I returned from my beach holiday, my wife had returned to work and I was dropping my eldest at kindergarten for the afternoon.
The clouds were looking threatening, so despite it only being a five minute walk, we jumped in the car and drove up the road.
As we pulled up out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/02/15/a-pain-in-the/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Been Going On&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for all the emails and messages asking where I&#8217;ve disappeared to over the last few weeks! Be assured that I&#8217;m alive and well and the drawing career is progressing nicely.
I&#8217;m currently on six weeks leave from my &#8216;day job&#8217; and so have taken the opportunity to do lots of family stuff. Tomorrow we head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/01/21/whats-been-going-on/</link>
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