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How to work from home
May 13th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
As part of my Friday practice of highlighting advice in the Life Skills section of my web site, today I offer suggestions on “How To Work From Home” here.
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How to build a good team
May 6th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
As part of my Friday practice of highlighting advice in the Life Skills section of my web site, today I offer suggestions on “How To Build A Good Team” here.
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In praise of multi-culturalism
May 5th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
My mother was Italian and came to Britain in 1946 when she married my father who was stationed in Italy with the Royal Air Force. My wife’s father was Czech and married her mother in 1942 when he had fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to fly with the wartime RAF. Our son did a degree in International […]
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Three reasons why Leicester is a great city
May 3rd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
King Richard III is buried there. They are Premier League Champions. My wonderful sister lives there.
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Bluebells herald the arrival of Spring (at last)
April 30th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Vee with her twin sister Mari among bluebells down on the south coast
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How to be a good leader
April 29th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
As part of my Friday practice of highlighting advice in the Life Skills section of my web site, today I offer suggestions on “How To Be A Good Leader” here.
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Word of the day: bund
April 23rd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
This week, my responsibilities as Chair of the South East Water Customer Panel have dominated my work schedule with no less than four meetings concerning the water sector. At one of these meetings, I heard an unfamiliar word: bund. It refers to an embankment, often providing a promenade. Apparently the origin of the word is […]
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The wonder of Palmyra – revisited
April 22nd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
This week, a monumental recreation of the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, which was destroyed by ISIS, has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square. The 1,800-year-old arch was destroyed by Islamic State militants last October and the 6-metre (20ft) model, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, is intended as an act of defiance: to […]
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How to have a good meeting
April 22nd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
In my life, I have attended so very many meetings – a good many of them poorly run. I chair lots of bodies these days and try to make the meetings enjoyable and worthwhile. You can find my advice on how to have a good meeting here.
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61 photographs of Mexico added to the account of our holiday
April 17th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
It’s a fortnight now since Vee and I returned from a wonderful two-week holiday in Mexico. I was blogging about the trip each day during the journey and then, when I came home, I pulled together all the blog postings into a continuous narrative for my web site, adding some links to further information. It’s […]
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