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Further impressions of Paris
November 26th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just returned from my second weekend in Paris in five weeks. This one was with my sister Silvia. The weather was not so good – rain and wind – but we still saw a lot and had fun. Again I visited the Eiffel Tower but again we could only go to the second stage […]
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Paris in the late Autumn
November 23rd, 2006 by Roger Darlington
A month ago, I had a long weekend in Paris with my wife Vee and our young Chinese friends Hua & Zhihao. I blogged about the visit here. I’m now off for another long weekend in Paris, this time with my sister Silvia. Although it is only a matter of weeks since my last visit, […]
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Keeping you posted
November 15th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
It’s now seven months since I was appointed to the Council of Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services. I’m really enjoying the work and I have occasionally blogged on NightHawk about some of my activities with the organisation. However, I have now persuaded my Postwatch colleagues to set up a group blog for the […]
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Photographs of Uzbekistan
November 14th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
It’s seven weeks since I returned from a week’s holiday in Uzbekistan. I managed to write up an account for my web site quite quickly, but it’s taken me until now to organise the addition of a selection of 37 photographs. You can view the account and the photos here.
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Reach for the sky
November 13th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
I’ve been up-dating my flying log book which I’ve kept since my first flight: a five-minute joy ride in an Auster on my 13th birthday in 1963. I love flying and even find airports exciting. I’ve now made a total of 466 flights totalling in all 826 hours 30 minutes. In the course of all […]
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The birthday girls
November 12th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
My wife Vee has her birthday this Monday and, by a remarkable coincidence, so does her twin sister Mari. So this weekend has marked the start of a three-day celebration involving various members of the family. One element of the celebrations was a Saturday night dinner at Vee’s favourite local restaurant: “Incanto” at Harrow-on-the-Hill. Vee […]
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Now I am an Enlightenist
November 5th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
“Enlightenists believe in the awe-inspiring, wonder, beauty and complexity of the universe, and aspire to unpick its mysteries by reason, constant questioning, observation, experiment, and analysis of evidence. The bedrock of our morality is empathy, from which logically springs love, forgiveness, tolerance and a profound desire to make a just, egalitarian society and reduce suffering. […]
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Are rationalists the oppressed minority?
November 4th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
“Nowadays everyone’s either a conspiracy theorist or a believer in mysticism or the paranormal or a religious zealot. What’s happened to the enlightenment? Where is our voice? Nowadays, we rationalists are the oppressed minority.” I know how Jon Ronson, author of this piece, feels which is why I wrote my web essay on “The Reason […]
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Winter’s coming …
November 3rd, 2006 by Roger Darlington
… at least in the northern hemisphere (I know that I have readers around the world). It’s beeen really chilly here in London over the last few days; my friend Vojta in Prague tells me that they’ve had the first fall of snow; and my friend Jill in Calgary writes that the temperature is already […]
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Aaaaah! It’s Halloween
October 31st, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Who should come knocking on our front door this dark Halloween night but two scary young witches that might just have been Nicole and Natalia from over the road. “Treat or treat” they said
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