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“The Edge Of War”
June 18th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Over the past year, I’ve written a total of 21 short stories on many different themes and you can see the titles here. It would be good to get one published and so I’ve just entered a competition sponsored by the British Czech and Slovak Association of which I am a member. It’s called “The […]
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First my brother; now my sister
June 16th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
A few days ago, I did a posting about my brother Ralph featuring in a YouTube clip; now my sister Silvia appears in this short video on YouTube: Now, I know what you’re thinking. First, Roger’s brother, then his sister, when will he be on YouTube? Well, I have actually been on YouTube – but […]
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My 21st short story
May 28th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s around two and a half months since I ‘published’ one of my short stories on my web site. I was in China for three weeks and than had to write up an account of the trip for my site and catch up on my normal diary. But today I’ve added a new story – […]
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The depths of the south-west
May 26th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
England is one of those countries where it is much easier to travel north-south than it is to journey east-west. I was reminded of the situation this week when I travelled by train from London to Bridgwater to attend a conference on next generation access or super-fast broadband. Now Bridgwater is not actually that far […]
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Georgia on my mind
May 23rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Georgia has been on my mind this weekend because of my first visit to a Georgian restaurant. The occasion was suggested to Vee and me by our very good friends Eric and Cindy who are going on holiday to Georgia in the summer and wanted to sample the food that they’ll be eating there. The […]
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The sky above our house today
May 22nd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
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China trip (6): photographs
May 18th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s now five weeks since Vee and I returned from our three-week trip to China with our Chinese ‘family’ Zhihao, Hua & Joshua. It’s taken me some time to complete my account of the holiday for my web site, but I’ve now finished the exercise by adding a selection of 64 photographs. You can read […]
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My participation in a medical research project
May 17th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
In the Spring of last year, I took part in a 12-week medical trial of a new ‘polypill’ and wrote about the experience on this blog, the last entry being this one. This morning, my wife and I spent two and a quarter hours at an assessment centre in Hounslow in west London as participants […]
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China trip (5): Chengdu
May 7th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now written up for my web site an account of the fifth and final stage of our three-week trip to China. This covers our time in Chengdu plus some overall observations and you can read it here.
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My Ofcom interview
May 4th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
As a member of the Communications Consumer Panel which is based in the communications regulator Ofcom, I’ve just been invited to complete some interview questions for a piece on the Ofcom intranet. I though that I would share it with you. Where did you spend your last holiday and what was great/bad about it? My […]
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