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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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A visit to London’s newest tourist attraction: the Sky Garden
October 28th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
In recent years, the skyline of central London has been reshaped by a number of tall buildings which have attracted popular names like the Gerkin, the Shard, and the Cheesegrater. Another is the Walkie Talkie at 20 Fenchurch Street which curves outwards at the top and 35 floors up this building is a new attraction […]
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Will Kenya be the next country to be troubled following a visit by the Darlingtons?
October 25th, 2015 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I have a bit of a track record. So many of the countries we have visited in the last decade or so have just suffered civil war or political turmoil or do so shortly after our time there. Don’t believe me? Check out this list. As regular readers of NightHawk will know, we […]
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Notes on Nairobi (10): “Pan” and farewell
October 23rd, 2015 by Roger Darlington
Our seventh and last day (Thursday) was a low-key affair. Richard was away in Uganda and in the morning Emily had matters to attend, so Vee and I chilled at the hotel, just packing and reading. We were collected by Emily and Catrin about 12.30 pm and made a return visit to the Westgate Shopping […]
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