Archive for the ‘My life & thoughts’ Category
Christmas news (1)
December 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
At this time of year, we send out Christmas cards to our many friends at home and abroad and, so that they know what we’ve been doing in the past 12 months, we always include a Christmas newsletter. You can read this year’s newsletter here.
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Christmas news (2)
December 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
On a wall of my study, there is a framed photograph of the Students’ Union Council of 1969-70 at the then University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. I’m there at the front in the middle as the sabbatical President for that year. Standing behind me is a Council member who is mentioned in […]
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It’s not cricket
November 13th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Yesterday I attended a conference on telecommunications regulation organised by the London Business School. As a result, I was a guest at a meal hosted by BT and held in the Media Centre of Lords Cricket Ground in north London. This provides stunning views of the cricket field. There were just a few problems: a) […]
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Back from the Isle of Wight
November 12th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I spent Saturday and Sunday on the Isle of Wight visiting our good friends Trev and Tess Jessop. It was a time for friendship and food rather than sightseeing. They live in an amazing place called Span Lodge which was bulit in 1805 as a home for the gatekeeper of the southern gate […]
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Off to the Isle of Wight
November 9th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In all my nearly 60 years, I’ve only been once to the Isle of Wight – and that was almost 30 years ago. But this weekend, Vee and I are off for couple of days to visit Trev and Tess Jessop whom we befriended on our holiday in Indochina. Trev is an artist and you […]
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My role in “Coronation Street”
October 30th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Over the last six weeks, I’ve done an unusual amount of travel: Sarajevo for a short break with my sister, Prague to attend the graduation ceremony of a dear friend, Inverness for a meeting of the Ofcom Consumer Panel, Zagreb to give two presentations at a conference, and now this week Manchester mainly to attend […]
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Back from Zagreb
October 27th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
It’s like those buses – you wait for ages and then two come along … For decades, I’ve travelled the world but I never went to former Yugoslavia or its newly-independent components. However, last month, I spent a long weekend in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina [my review here]. Then, last week, I […]
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Another trip; another country
October 23rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I won’t be blogging for a few days now because I’m off out of the country. I’m attending a seminar in Zagreb and Croatia takes the number of countries that I’ve now visited to 48. I’m participating in a seminar entitled “Consumer Issues In The Electronic Communications Market” and I’ll be giving two presentations.
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How small can a cinema be?
October 23rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Regular visitors to NightHawk will know that I’m a big movie fan and love going to the cinema. One of the smaller and most unusual cinemas I’ve ever visited is called Kinema in the woods and is located in Woodall in Lincolnshire. However, my attention was drawn to a report this week of the closure […]
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How to do this and that
October 22nd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I had an interview for a public appointment today (I’ll let you know more about it if I’m successful). As part of my preparation, I read my own advice on how to have a good job interview. This is a page on my web site as part of a broader section on life skills which […]
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