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A fun day with my little friends Catrin and James
March 15th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Earlier this week, I spent the day in central London with my granddaughter Catrin (now three years and two months) and her little friend friend James (just three months older). Together with James’s mother Jen, we went on the Emirates Airline cable car and to The Crystal building [see more details here] before taking them […]
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Almost 100 of my photos of our Central American tour
March 8th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Three weeks ago, Vee and I returned from our wonderful three-week tour of five Central American countries. I was able to create a narrative account for my web site quickly because I had been blogging about the tour day by day and just had to stitch together the separate postings. I have now managed to […]
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John Lewis overtakes Marks & Spencer in the battle for the consumer
March 7th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Following the crisis at the Co-operative Bank, it’s great to see another co-operative, the John Lewis Partnership doing so well. It does not have as many stores or as high profits as Marks & Spencer, but it does now have a higher turnover and a much better appreciation of consumer needs. As a partnership. John […]
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The nearest I will ever come to an Olympic performance
March 5th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Together with Helen Milner, Chief Executive of the Tinder Foundation (on whose Board I sit), I hold one of the Olympic torches from the 2012 Games while on a visit today to the BT Tower in London for the launch of the 2014 Tech4Good Awards.
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How to resolve conflict
February 28th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
I monitor the numbers visiting my web site and the sections that they most frequent. Each day, up to 10,000 visit the site as a whole, with my personal blog NightHawk and my professional blog CommsWatch being by far the most popular sections of the site. But, in recent weeks, there’s been a new entry […]
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How many countries have you visited?
February 24th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
On my recent tour of Central America, two of our group had been to around 160 countries which is amazing, especially as the United Nations only has 193 nations as members. At the end of our latest holiday, which involved time in five countries, my personal total is 65 – one for each year of […]
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An account of our visit to five countries in Central America
February 24th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
A week ago, Vee and I returned from a three-week holiday visiting five countries in Central America. If you are a regular reader of NightHawk, you might have been following the 25 daily blog postings that I put up as we toured the region. I have now put all of these postings into a continuous […]
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Our Central America tour (25): postscript
February 16th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
How long can a person sleep? Three weeks touring round Central America + two long flights + jet lad = I have just slept for over 15 hours
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Our Central America tour (24): conclusion
February 15th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
Our return home on Friday started with the alam going at 5 am in our hotel room in Guatemala City. As with our outward journey, both flights were with American Airways. The first leg – the flight to Dallas/Fort Worth in a Boeing 737-800 – went smoothly with a flight of just over three hours. […]
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Our Central America tour (23): Chichicastenango
February 14th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
It was our last day in Central America (Thursday), but there was still one more adventure to be experienced: a visit to a major market. Leaving Panajachel at 8.30 am, we climbed our way out of the caldera, stopping briefly at a mirador to look back at Lago de Atitlan and its volcanoes, and headed […]
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