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Something new (2): “Emporium”
September 11th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I love discovering new things or visiting new places in my home city of London where I have lived now for almost 40 years. This weekend, Vee & I visited a wonderful new tea house at the invitation of our good friends Eric & Cindy. It is called “Emporium” and located between East Finchley and […]
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Something new (1): “La Deliverance”
September 11th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I love discovering new things or visiting new places in my home city of London where I have lived now for almost 40 years. This weekend, I stopped for the first time to look at a striking statue that I pass every time I visit close friends Ivan & Ros in Finchley. Amazingly I’ve never […]
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Spitfires, Hurricanes and Czechs
September 5th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
When I was younger, I used to attend a couple of air displays each year in pursuance of my lifelong interest in aviation. But it’s been six years since I went to a display – until today. My wife Vee and I spent the day at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, partly to […]
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“A Question Of Life”
September 3rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just published on my web site my latest – the 24th – short story. It’s entitled “A Question Of Life” and it’s unusual in dealing with some issues around the Holocaust. Please read it and and let me know what you think. You’ll find all my other stories here.
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How often have you moved home?
August 26th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
My wife has been away for three days this week helping her twin sister and brother-in-law to move house in West Sussex. This set me thinking about the moves I’ve made in my life. I had a rather peripatetic childhood growing up in Manchester [personal notes here] and lived in eight places there. When I […]
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Weekend on the Isle of Wight
August 16th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I spent a relaxing and congenial weekend on the Isle of Wight visiting our good friends Trev and Tess Jessop whom we befriended originally on our trip to Indochina. They live in an amazing place called Span Lodge which was built in 1805 as a home for the gatekeeper of the southern gate […]
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A visit to Copenhagen
August 12th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Regular visitors to this blog will know that I’ve recently returned from a four-day summer break in Copenhagen and this visit to Denmark was the 54th nation that I’ve experienced. I’ve written a few notes on Copenhagen here.
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The most expensive cup of coffee in the world?
August 9th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
In December 2008, I did a blog posting about my experience of ordering a cup of coffee in a London hotel that cost a staggering £5.20. I speculated about whether this was the most expensive cup of coffee in the world. Then, in April 2010, I did a further blog posting about a cup of […]
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Off to Copenhagen
August 3rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’m off now for a few days to have a break in Copenhagen with my sister. I’ve never been to Denmark so this will be the 54th country that I’ve visited (about another 150 to go!). While I’m away and not blogging, if you’d like something to read perhaps I could direct you to my […]
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My role in the London Olympics
July 31st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
This week marked the point at which we are exactly two years away from the holding of the Olympic Games in London in 2012. Now I confess that, atypically for a man, I’m not very interested in sport. But I’m delighted that London will be hosting the Games in 2012 because I think it will […]
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