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China trip (4): Wuhan & Yichang
May 1st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now written up for my web site an account of the fourth stage of our three-week trip to China. This covers our time in Wuhan and Yichang and you can read it here.
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China trip (3): Shanghai/Wuzhen/Hangzhou
April 29th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now written up for my web site an account of the third stage of our three-week trip to China. This covers our time in Shanghai, Wuzhen and Hangzhou and you can read it here.
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Sorry for the interruptions
April 28th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Three times in the last month, my web site and blogs have gone down, so you won’t have been able to access them for a period. Sorry about that. Apparently the site has been hacked. I don’t think that I’ve been picked on; it seems that it’s just robots exploiting technical weaknesses which then requires […]
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How to use time well
April 27th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The Life Skills part of my web site now has almost 30 sections. Today I had an e-mail from someone in Cairo that led me to revisit and revise my advise on “How To Use Time Well”.
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Visit to Bekonscot
April 25th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Two weeks ago, Vee and I returned from a three-week trip to China with our Chinese ‘family’ Zhihao, Hua and Joshua [for an account, see here]. Today we all got together again for the first time since our holiday to celebrate Joshua’s third birthday and we were joined by three Chinese friends of Hua & […]
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China trip (2): Dalian
April 21st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now written up for my web site an account of the second stage of our three-week trip to China. This covers our time in Dalian and you can read it here.
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China trip (1): Beijing
April 18th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
I’ve now written up for my web site an account of the first stage of our three-week trip to China. This covers our time in Beijing and you can read it here.
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Happy birthday Silvia
April 17th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Today it is the 60th birthday of my sister Silvia. I’m the only person alive who has known her for every one of those 60 years and I can’t believe that my little sister – she’s two years younger than me – has reached such an age. Silvia held a celebratory event in the Regency […]
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The most expensive cup of coffee
April 13th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Sometime ago, I did a blog posting about the most expensive cup of coffee in the world. This followed an experience where a colleague bought me a cup in a London hotel at the utterly outrageous price of £5.20 – but at least that was in the rich West. I’ve just returned from a three-week […]
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Back from China
April 13th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
We got back last night from an amazing three-week trip to China, so now I’m struggling with jet-lag and copious e-mails and impending meetings. Over the next couple of week, I’ll be writing up a full account of the trip for my web site. You can check it out here.
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