<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com</title><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:22:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>PUTTING THE REEK INTO AULD REEKIE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/putting_the_reek_into_auld_reekie.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/putting_the_reek_into_auld_reekie.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=putting%5Fthe%5Freek%5Finto%5Fauld%5Freekie</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Long-suffering readers will probably be wondering why I&rsquo;ve not published my annual guide to shows worth seeing (or, in a few cases, probably worth avoiding) at the Edinburgh Fringe.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s because &ndash; unlike other years &ndash;]]></description></item><item><title>HELLO, MUM #2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_2.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_2.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hello%5Fmum%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our second &ldquo;oops, I&rsquo;ve just found myself encroaching on a celebrity photoshoot&rdquo; picture is of Mischa Barton loading or unloading her bags (or rather watching her driver load or unload them) at an airport somewhere (probably Los Ange]]></description></item><item><title>WHERE&apos;S THE SWARM WHEN YOU NEED IT?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/wheres_the_swarm_when_you_need_it.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/wheres_the_swarm_when_you_need_it.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wheres%5Fthe%5Fswarm%5Fwhen%5Fyou%5Fneed%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night, as I failed to recover from a third cluster headache in as many days, I curled up on the sofa and happened to catch five&rsquo;s Greatest Ever Disaster Movies, which I missed on its original screening, probably because I was still able to]]></description></item><item><title>SMOKEAROCKACRACKADAY</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/smokearockacrackaday.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/smokearockacrackaday.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=smokearockacrackaday</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing and his wife Eva have been charged with possession of drugs.The charge stems from an incident in April when Mrs Rausing is alleged to have tried smuggling Class A and Class C narcotics into the American embassy.It is rumou]]></description></item><item><title>HELLO, MUM #1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_1.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hello%5Fmum%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make: during my recent sabbatical from this blog, I developed an unhealthy interest in photographs of celebrities, largely taken by the paparazzi.I&rsquo;ve never quite been able to make up my mind as to which side of the papar]]></description></item><item><title>BOB SMITH R.I.P.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bob_smith_rip.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bob_smith_rip.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bob%5Fsmith%5Frip</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It was with great sadness that I received news of the death last Wednesday of Bob Smith, the manager I worked under at RTM Radio (formerly Radio Thamesmead), the community radio station that became my alma mater by sheer virtue of the fact that I spe]]></description></item><item><title>JOB OFFER OF THE WEEK #1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/job_offer_of_the_week_1.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/job_offer_of_the_week_1.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=job%5Foffer%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fweek%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hi!&nbsp; We&rsquo;re an award-winning television production company in Camden, which means we&rsquo;re really funky and down with the kids.&nbsp; We&#39;re so street that we virtually live in the kerb outside Koko.&nbsp; Kerr-aaazy!We, like, so need]]></description></item><item><title>BRUISES HEAL ON THEIR OWN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bruises_heal_on_their_own.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bruises_heal_on_their_own.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bruises%5Fheal%5Fon%5Ftheir%5Fown</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The news that Amy Winehouse elbowed some bloke in the head towards the end of her Glastonbury set on Saturday night didn&rsquo;t come as too much of a surprise to me.&nbsp; When you&rsquo;ve been in and out of rehab as much as our Amy, the &ldquo;inv]]></description></item><item><title>TOMORROW&apos;S SPORTS PAGES TONIGHT</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/tomorrows_sports_pages_tonight.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/tomorrows_sports_pages_tonight.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tomorrows%5Fsports%5Fpages%5Ftonight</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1964 European Championship winners: Spain1966 World Cup winners: EnglandEuro 2008 winners: Spain2010 World Cup winners: ..?Well..?Could&nbsp;that be some kind of an omen? No, not that kind of omen.&copy; The Sun, The Mirror, The Times, The Telegraph]]></description></item><item><title>WHAT&apos;S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE #2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_2.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_2.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whats%5Fwrong%5Fwith%5Fthis%5Fpicture%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I tend to be in Australia for about three months of the year, which can be a problem if I&rsquo;m the middle of a series like The Sopranos, so what I tend to do is wait a few months and just buy every single episode on DVD.&nbsp; Frankly, if I]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-THREE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentythree.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentythree.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ftwentythree</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve been brave enough to read all 23 of these instalments, then you deserve a medal, let alone a thank you.&nbsp; But my sincerest thanks is all I can afford at the moment, so consider yourself thanked.&nbsp; I am only too aware that, at]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-TWO</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentytwo.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentytwo.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ftwentytwo</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 2005, the newly-installed BBC Head of Radio Entertainment asked his comedy producers about new writers coming through the system at the time, he himself having been through that system back in the early 90s when it was still in perfect working ord]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-ONE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentyone.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentyone.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ftwentyone</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My submissions to BBC Comedy competitions started with the most appalling radio sketch show, submitted at the age of 14 or 15.&nbsp; It was so bad that, when I&nbsp;discovered the script lying around&nbsp;some years later, I immediately&nbsp;burnt it]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twenty.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twenty.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ftwenty</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My dealings with BBC HR had fizzled out by the end of February.&nbsp; Although the idea of applying for another staff post in the Corporation continued to make my blood pressure rise to a dangerous level, my strong stance of never wanting to send in]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART NINETEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nineteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nineteen.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Fnineteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of February, I notched up my 100th job application since being dismissed 13 months earlier.The first 50 applications have already been well documented in a post from the end of last June, when the last thing I expected was for the count to]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART EIGHTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_eighteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_eighteen.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Feighteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Even if I say so myself, I wrote some great stuff during that first week of March.It was the kind of stuff that, had I been motivated enough in the weeks and months just gone, would have been just perfect to kick start this blog again after an unforg]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART SEVENTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_seventeen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_seventeen.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Fseventeen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Incensed by the BBC HR Manager&rsquo;s failure to address pretty much every single one of the points I&rsquo;d made five weeks earlier, I immediately bashed out a reply, in which I said it was totally unacceptable to have waited such a length of time]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART SIXTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_sixteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_sixteen.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Fsixteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve always hated Alan Sugar&hellip;and, after last night&rsquo;s Apprentice final, I think he&rsquo;s seriously cruising for a bruising.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t get me wrong: I don&rsquo;t watch the programme anymore because I grew tired of the ster]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART FIFTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_fifteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_fifteen.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ffifteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ten more days went by without a peep.As friends, acquaintances, and potential employers wound down for Christmas by attending social events of an evening, followed by all-nighters at&nbsp;the nearest A&amp;E department, I was at home twiddling my thu]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART FOURTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_fourteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_fourteen.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ffourteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The morning of November 30th was much the same as the mornings that had gone before.I got into work on time, finished a task from the previous day, started a new task that took half the time expected to complete, took lunch, and came back, expecting]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART THIRTEEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_thirteen.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_thirteen.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Fthirteen</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was more relieved than happy to have finally nabbed a job at the BBC, particularly one in which I would be able to utilize many of my skills.Even though it was a relatively unglamorous role and only a three-month attachment, there was the possibili]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWELVE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twelve.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twelve.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ftwelve</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Four days after the tribunal, I headed back to the market research company in Bermondsey for my second interview with its amiable Danish MD.Once again, we headed over the road for a coffee.&nbsp; Having lost a lot of sleep the previous weekend over m]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART ELEVEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_eleven.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_eleven.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Feleven</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have to start without him,&rdquo; instructed the Chairman of the Tribunal, referring to PJ&rsquo;s absence.So we did.&nbsp; I could barely keep a straight face.&nbsp; What if he&rsquo;d had second thoughts and was about to burst th]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TEN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_ten.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_ten.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Ften</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I arrived at the Stratford Employment Tribunal office a touch before 10am&nbsp;on October 12th&nbsp;to find that&nbsp;my pre-hearing review had been listed as an unallocated case.&nbsp; I was already aware that this&nbsp;might&nbsp;happen and&nbsp;ha]]></description></item><item><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART NINE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nine.htm</guid><link>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nine.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fstory%5Fever%5Ftold%5Fpart%5Fnine</comments><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I felt like you&nbsp;deserved a break from&nbsp;this tale for the weekend, so&nbsp;I hope you spent it&nbsp;responsibly.Now, then...where were we?&nbsp;I&nbsp;entered September 2007 with two job interviews on the same Wednesday and prepared for them]]></description></item></channel></rss>