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Sunday on the Hamble
July 29th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This weekend, Vee and I visited my half-brother Chris and his partner Janine who live in South Wonston. This is a village situated about 4 miles north of Winchester on a chalk ridge overlooking beautiful countryside. Its population has grown to just over 2000 people. We were expecting rain but, other than a little on […]
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What happened to our summer?
July 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
If you live in Britain, you had your answer yesterday. If you’re one of my many readers from outside the UK, you may be astonished to learn that yesterday we had what the “Guardian” newspaper called “some of the heaviest rainfall in living memory” which, at its worst, represented two months of rain in just […]
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Home alone … no more
July 13th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
After 10 days in France with her twin sister and two other female relatives, Vee has returned home to find that – with help from our Chinese friends Hua & Zhihao and the use of a microwave – I have survived and so has the cat. It’s lovely to have her back and I’ve arranged […]
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Eight things meme
July 9th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I have been tagged by by American cyber-buddy Dana for a meme which involves me listing eight things about me (I think the spirit of the idea is that these should be things that you might not know). I won’t continue the meme by tagging other bloggers but I’ll offer you this list: My name […]
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My media
July 2nd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Each Monday, the “Guardian” newspaper has a media supplement and features an interview with a famous person recording which media he or she uses – the title of the piece is “My media”. I thought that today I’d interview myself on these lines. Newspapers Every day, we have delivered the two Left-of-centre national newspapers: the […]
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Our triple celebration (2)
July 1st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Well, yesterday Vee and I had our triple celebration and it was a wonderful event with a total of 52 family and friends round at our house. We held the event on the terrace but, since it rained and rained and rained, in the morning we’d put up a large gazebo which kept us all […]
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Our triple celebration (1)
June 30th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This afternoon, Vee and I are having a party for close family and special friends to celebrate three events: our 25th wedding anniversary (19 March), Vee’s retirement (30 March) and my birthday (25 June). Really we should have organised the event for the end of March, but we decided that the weather was likely to […]
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What a way to spend a birthday
June 27th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
It was my birthday on Monday. So did I spend the evening having a delicious celebratory meal with my wife? No – instead, as a representative of Postwatch, I was speaking at a protest meeting against a proposed conversion of a Crown post office in Fulham into a franchise operation by WHSmith. Predictably I had […]
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The nature of humankind
June 27th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A friend sent me this quote from the American George Carlin: “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” I responded to my friend: “As I guess you would expect, I have lots of problems with […]
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Happy birthday to me
June 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Today is my birthday. I’m 59 – so next year is the big six-oh. However, I don’t feel my age and I like to think that I’m wearing quite well. So, how will I spend my birthday? In fact, it’s a working day (and evening). In my capacity as member of the Council of the […]
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