<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/Straightforward3034"><title>Contextualising collections - Blogit</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/</link><description>I've had a range of collections and I have been thinking that rather than aimlessly have collections, maybe I can make a collection thematically, and contextualise the collection</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/785758" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/768321" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/729140" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/728228" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/727434" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726864" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726432" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/725800" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/724729" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/723545" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/785758"><title>collecting a list of political parties that have opened and shut in South</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/785758</link><description>Asian countries in the last fifty years. Anyone care to point me to any sites you know on this?</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/768321"><title>The barns and their contents and context</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/768321</link><description>The barns and their content The content and their context The storage style n their context The context and the class The class and the caste context About what? The barns and their content</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/729140"><title>Connect the collection to the times it was collected in and to the</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/729140</link><description>situation and circumstances under which it was collected and our understandings of the collection become that much clearer. What say? It gives us a sense about the collector items as well as the collector.</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/728228"><title>Collecting Christmas buntings with themes</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/728228</link><description>I do know that cribs have themes which focus on any one dimension. But have you come across Christmas buntings which are innovative and which try to get across the message of Christmas in the context of today's times. I sure would be interested to collect pictures of such buntings. Perhaps some...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/727434"><title>Who can afford certain types of collections?</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/727434</link><description>Who can afford certain types of collections? How can certain persons afford certain collections? That's the question also being asked in the item pasted below. But like all posts at election time, this one also raises doubts/ Surely if he has a collection like this, it's been known all along? Why...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726864"><title>You collect matchsticks but...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726864</link><description>You collect matchsticks of diffferent sorts Today many of them speak of an era; but I can't collect cos I have scent and eau de cologne and fuel for my firewood all over the place and it's risky</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726432"><title>I collect stamps and coins but you can't...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/726432</link><description>I collect stamps and coins But you can't collect them because you know no one abroad, you know no one who can share stamps or coins with you and you ain't got the money to buy 'em</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/725800"><title>Landscaping with the collection of pebbles ...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/725800</link><description>My cousin does landscaping of the vast property around her house, with the assorted pebbles that she collects along life's journey be it within our country or abroad, and what a fascinating kaleidoscope it turns out to be! But of course, this is a luxury that only someone with lots of land can...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/724729"><title>Collecting dust...now this is offbeat...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/724729</link><description>It's not about collecting dust. It's about collections collecting dust. When does that happen? When people are careless with their collections...when the area where the collection is kept is dust-prone....when people don't have the possibilities of dusting because of their schedules....when...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/723545"><title>Amazed by variety...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/723545</link><description>Talking of collections, I am amazed by the variety of things people collect, and I am also amazed by the variety of collections within each theme or item. People collect things ranging from matchsticks to cars. And within collections, a literary collection may be all about collecting translated...</description></item></rdf:RDF>