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A very busy week
January 19th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’ve not blogged for a few days because this week has been such a very busy time. I’m the Member for England on the Ofcom Consumer Panel and, on Tuesday, we had our monthly meeting and met our new Chairman Anna Bradley. I’m the Chair of the Greater London Region on the Postwatch Council and, […]
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A new year; a new device
January 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
For a decade now, I’ve always carried two electronic devices with me wherever I go: my mobile and my personal digital assistant (PDA). From today, no more … For my 49th birthday (June 1997) I bought myself a present. My first palm top computer – a Psion 3c with 2 megabytes of memory. Some years […]
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A new year; a new diary
January 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
One of the reasons why blogging comes quite naturally to me is that I’ve kept a daily diary for decades. In fact, I have an entry for every day for the last 46 years – that’s some 16,800 entries. Of course, today I start my 47th diary. Now my diary and this blog are very […]
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Wii-ing at Christmas
December 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Having spent the morning running [see photo here], Vee’s nephew David and his wife Sharon joined the rest of Vee’s immediate family to spend Christmas Day with us. They brought along David’s Christmas present to Sharon: a Nintendo Wii game console. Now I’m not into gaming and certainly first person shooter games and fantasy games […]
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Hurricane at Christmas
December 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A few days ago, I blogged about how my biography of the World War Two night intruder ace who was my wife’s father keeps coming back into our lives. The Czech Karel Kuttelwascher flew a particular Hawker Hurricane IIC which he called “Night Reaper”. Today, to our astonishment, Vee and I received a Christmas present […]
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Reaching round the world
December 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I know that my web site and blogs are visited by up to 5,000 people a day because my traffic statistics tell me exactly what’s happening day by day. But it’s wonderful when I hear from a visitor I don’t know and find that some of the material has proved helpful in some way. Today […]
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Memories still flying high
December 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
One of my favourite sayings is: “It isn’t over until it’s over – and then it isn’t over”. This has certainly been the case regarding the book “Night Hawk” which I wrote in 1984 about the life of the Second World War night fighter ace who was my wife’s father [his story here]. I keep […]
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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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