Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
How to be happy
December 29th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
The most popular page in my web site collection of life skills advice on 24 matters is that on “How To Be Happy”. In an article in today’s “Guardian”, Harvard’s ‘professor of happiness’ offers his advice which can be summarized as: Give yourself the permission to be human Simplify your life Exercise regularly Focus on […]
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Merry Christmas to you all
December 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Clyde McPhatter & The Drfiters say (sing) it much better than me here.
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Which of these messages is true?
December 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
You should drink eight glasses of water a day. You only use 10% of your brain. Your fingernails will continue to grow after you die. You will damage your eyesight if you read in dim light. Your hair will growth back coarser if you shave it. You will be causing danger if you use a […]
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Examples of non 999 calls
December 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
You have to pity the police – people are calling the emergency number 999 (really it should be 112 now) in ever greater numbers for often trivial reasons. A compilation of ‘non’ 999 calls is being made available for the public to listen to in an effort to curb the number of nuisance calls the […]
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Royal Mail’s busiest day
December 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
As a member of Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, I am aware that Royal Mail is now experiencing its busiest time of the year, handling an anticipated over 2 billion letters and cards during the festive period. Proving that Santa isn’t the only one working hard over Christmas, Royal Mail predicts that today […]
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An inspirational success story
December 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This week, Sammy Gitau graduated from the University of Manchester with a Masters degree in International Development. So, what’s so special about that? Well, Sammy was born into a life of crime and poverty in a Kenyan slum,, only had two years formal education, and was foraging through a rubbish dump when he found a […]
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It’s 2008 already
December 5th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I only take one monthly magazine and have it on a postal subscription. It’s called “Film Review” and the January 2008 edition arrived today. Pretty crazy, huh? I don’t know whey I’m complaining – the cover picture is of Angelina Jolie.
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“Mind the gap”
November 26th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
As a Londoner who doesn’t drive, I use the London Underground a lot and constantly hear the injunction “Mind the gap”. Today we have the news that the woman whose voice makes these and other announcement for LU has been told she can no longer do work for the organisation. It seems that Emma Clarke […]
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Would you like to be a secret agent?
November 26th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
It is reported that the Secret Intelligence Service (that’s MI6 to you and me) is mounting a recruitment drive this week to attract budding James Bonds, though without the licence to kill. Like its sister agency, the domestic Security Service (or MI5), it wants to “broaden its staff base” to “better reflect the ethnicity of […]
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Man cold
November 7th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Lots of people seem to have colds and flu at the moment (not me yet, thank goodness), so I thought this video clip from the television serious “Manstokewoman” might amuse:
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