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Let the celebration begin
June 19th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It’s hard for me to believe, but next week I’ll be 60. I know – I look so young and act even younger 😉 The actual day is Wednesday 25 June and the main celebration will be on Saturday 28 June, but this event is so special that there are going to be celebrations over […]
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Happy Father’s Day
June 15th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
In the UK, this Sunday is Father’s Day (I know that Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are celebrated on different days around the world), so I want to wish a good day to all fathers like me. I had a card and a call from my son Richard and, in remembrance of all the super-hero […]
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Fly past over London
June 14th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Whenever the Royal Air Force does a fly past over central London, I try to catch it at home since we live almost due west of the city centre and usually catch such fly pasts before the aircraft disperse. Today it was the Queen’s official birthday and so, after the ceremony of the Trooping of […]
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The oldest cinema in Britain
June 8th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Last night, I went to see a film – “Mongol” [my review here] – at a cinema which could be the oldest in Britain. The Phoenix cinema in north London first opened in 1910 as “The East Finchley Picturedrome”, offering ‘the world’s finest picture plays’. It has been open as a cinema since and is […]
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I have no idea
June 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
This lunchtime, I was at the Treasury – at the invitation of my half-brother who is an official there – to hear a lecture by Professor Frank Trentmann. He was speaking about his latest book which is called “Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain”. The Treasury officials there seemed to […]
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How to take a good photograph
May 31st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I have a section of my web site called Life Skills which is very popular. There’s nothing terribly original there, but the advice is offered in a concise, catchy and friendly form which appears to appeal to readers. Today I’ve created the 25 page in this section. It’s called “How To Take A Good Photograph”. […]
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Fox in the garden
May 27th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’ve been working at home today – mainly reading more than 250 pages of papers for tomorrow’s meeting of the Board of the New National Consumer Council. This gave me the opportunity to spot an urban fox which occasionally frequents our garden in north-west London. In the past, I’ve seen some pretty mangy foxes in […]
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Visit to Apsley House
May 26th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I have lived in London now for 37 years and I fairly recently read a book about the Duke of Wellington [my review here] but, until today (a very wet and windy Bank Holiday Monday), I had never visited Wellington’s home at Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner. The house was built between 1771-1778 by […]
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Is Karen Armstrong religious?
May 25th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It’s Sunday – so let’s have a religious posting. On the strong recommendation of a friend, I’m currently reading “A History Of God” by Karen Armstrong. I’m find it tough going, not least because I am so unsure of the position of the author, and I am constantly asking myself whether Armstrong is now a […]
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“My name’s Bond ..”
May 22nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
As a teenager in the 1960s, I read all 14 of the James Bond novels and saw every one of the 007 movies as they were issued. When I became a father, I always took my son Richard to see the latest Bond film and today the two of us when to see a special […]
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