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Our new roof (6)
December 21st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
When I did my first posting on our new roof, I said that I’d been told that it would take three-four weeks. Six weeks later, the scaffolding was finally removed this morning – just in time for Christmas. The roofers that Derek (Vee’s brother-in-law) appointed did a first class job and then went on to […]
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The Darlington Christmas newsletter
December 14th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I have spent a lot of today writing Christmas cards to our many friends around the world. As always, we included the latest edition of the famous Darlington Christmas newsletter which you can read here.
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What’s the most expensive cup of coffee in the world?
December 11th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’m a big coffee drinker – especially cappuccino – and I spend a lot of time in central London, so I’m used to paying a lot for my coffee. But today was something else. This morning, I met a colleague for a working discussion over coffee and, at the Hilton Hotel by Paddington station, my […]
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Remembering Mike Terry
December 6th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
When I was a university student, I took a year off my studies to serve full-time as the sabbatical President of the Students’ Union of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) which has now merged with the University of Manchester. The academic year of my office was 1969-70. This was a […]
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Our new roof (5)
November 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It’s the weekend; the tilers aren’t here; and, for once, there’s none of the crashing and the banging. Oh, heaven!
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Our new roof (4)
November 27th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It’s making progress …
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Merry Christmas?!?
November 20th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Today we received our first Christmas card. Can you believe it? And it only came down the road from Hove ….
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Our new roof (3)
November 19th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Bad news and good news on the roofing front. The bad news is that we had so much rain yesterday that the roof sprung a new and more serious leak. Water burst through the spare bedroom ceiling and cascaded into the living room. The good news is that, a week after the scaffolding went up, […]
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Our new roof (2)
November 13th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
On Monday, I blogged about the need for us to have a new roof. That morning, three guys came along in the pouring rain to erect all the scaffolding. This is what our place looks like now: What about the workers? Since then … nothing.
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My visits to the White House
November 12th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Seeing pictures of President-Elect Barack Obama visiting the White House this week took me back to my own visits to this most iconic of political buildings. I believe that, since 9/11, the general public has not been ableto visit the White House but, before then, I had done so on three occasions. The first time […]
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