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Ruminations on Rome (3)
November 15th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
Silvia and I had a very full, and very enjoyable, day in Rome where there was an obvious security presence following the terrible events in Paris last night. We decided to use the morning for orientation by visiting the major squares and to use the afternoon to tour the Vatican since it will be closed to […]
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Ruminations on Rome (2)
November 13th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
My long weekend in Rome with my sister Silvia got off to a slightly anxious start when she was three-quarters of an hour late meeting me at London’s Heathrow Airport. She had major problems with her train from Leicester to London and then her mobile refused to send or receive either calls or texts. Of course, […]
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Ruminations on Rome (1)
November 13th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I’m off to Rome for a weekend break – not with my wife Vee but with my sister Silvia. For about a decade now, my sister and I have tried to have a short holiday together without our spouses and this is our ninth such break. It will be my third visit to Rome, but […]
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How to get a good night’s sleep
November 13th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I am fortunate: I can sleep almost anywhere almost anytime and invariably have around eight hours sleep a night. But so many people struggle to sleep well. You can find some useful advice here.
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A week in the life of a consumer advocate
November 7th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
As I have a portfolio career currently working with six organisations, my schedule is very varied and some weeks are fuller than others in terms of meetings and events. This past week has been especially busy, with meetings every day, and three occasions in which I have chaired events. On Monday, I chaired the Customer […]
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A tribute to my university friend Dan Filson
November 6th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
I have just learned the sad news of the recent death of Dan Filson. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Dan and I were at university together, both of us studying Management Sciences at the then University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). In the academic year 1969-70, we both served as full-time sabbatical […]
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How to be healthy
November 6th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
In my new Friday series revisiting the advice in the Life Skills section of my web site, today I invite you to consider “How To Be Healthy”.
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A busy Halloween in Sudbury Hill
October 31st, 2015 by Roger Darlington
it’s been another busy Halloween evening in our crescent in north-west London. Over a period of three hours, our door bell went 14 times as we were visited by a total of 59 little horrors. Good job we had tons of Quality Street chocolates for them.
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Notes on Nairobi – now a continuous narrative with links and photos
October 30th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
If you are a regular reader of NightHawk, you might have read a series of daily blog postings on my recent visit to Nairobi. I have now pulled all these postings in one continuous narrative, added a series of hyperlinks to relevant web sites, and included a selection of 19 photographs. Check it out here.
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How to be happy
October 30th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
For the last eight months, each Friday I have been revisiting one of my collection of 31 short stories. This seems to have gone down well with readers of NightHawk. So I thought that, now I have concluded the look at my short stories, i would start a new Friday series in which I revisit […]
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