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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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Back from Inverness
October 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I’ve returned from a couple of days in Inverness where I was attending an out-of-London meeting of the Ofcom Consumer Panel. This is the furtherest north that I’ve ever been in the United Kingdom. The local constituency goes by the catchy name of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and we met the constituency MP, Liberal […]
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Remembering the great storm
October 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Twenty years ago this morning, Britain suffered the most ferocious storm since 1703. In the South-East of England, 19 people were killed and 15 million trees were uprooted and damage ran to £1.5 billion. I always sleep soundly and we had new double glazing, so I slept throughout the entire storm. However, when I rose, […]
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Back from Prague
October 8th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I have just returned from five days in Prague – her 16th visit and my 21st. This time, we were there to attend the graduation ceremony of our dear friend Vojtišek (Vojta) Horváth whose family we have known for 22 years. Vojta has recently completed a six-year degree in medicine and his degree […]
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