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Life can be a pain
April 25th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
For several months now, I’ve had a recurrent and persistent pain in my right shoulder. Usually with pains and other ailments, I take the view that they will either get better (in which case fine) or they will get worse (in which case I’ll go to the doctor) – and fortunately, in the vast majority […]
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Walk To Work Day
April 24th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
This morning, it took me an incredible 2 hours 20 minutes to reach my meeting at Post Office Headquarters in central London where, as the Chairman of Postwatch Greater London, I was putting the case for the withdrawal of certain proposed post office closures. I was doing fine until I reached Baker Street underground station. […]
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A tip on tipping
April 18th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Increasingly, in restaurants I try to tip the waiter or waitress in cash even though i usually pay the bill by credit card. Why? Because of practices like these.
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Five years blogging
April 18th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Today is the fifth anniversary of my life as a blogger. This was my first posting. Since then, there have been almost 2,000 more on this personal blog – and lots more on my professional blog. NightHawk has changed my life – but has my blog changed yours?
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The gas men cometh … and cometh again … and again … and again
April 16th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
The two holes were filled today.
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The gas men cometh … and cometh again … and again
April 15th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
OK – so now we have our gas supply back on. But we still have two big holes that have to be filled.
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The gas men cometh … and cometh again
April 15th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
In the middle of last week, we smelt gas outside the front door so we called National Grid Gas. In no time, a guy was here and confirmed that there was a leak. Very soon, three other guys were at the house and digging up the pavement outside our front garden. Next day, we were […]
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Photos of Cuba
April 12th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
As regular visitors will know, a few weeks ago I had a holiday in Cuba and I’ve been writing up a narrative of the trip for my web site. I’ve now added 56 photographs. You can check out the text and the pictures here
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6,000 visits a day
April 9th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Yesterday the number of visitors to my web site exceeded 6,000. Thank you so much for your interest and support. Please encourage relatives and colleagues to have a look at the site.
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London in the snow
April 6th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
On Friday, here in London, it was mild enough for me to have lunch on our garden terrace for the first time this year. But, two days later, what a contrast. We rarely have snow in London and, when we do, it is in January or February. This morning, in early April, we woke up […]
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