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Intergenerational tale (2): what I would like to be doing if I reach 100
May 14th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
I love life, so I’d like to think that I might one day live to be 100. I love stories and really enjoy telling them or reading them to youngsters. I love children and like the idea of different generations coming together to enthuse each other. So I was fascinated to read of the experience […]
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Intergenerational tale (1): how my granddaughter and I fell in love with “Frozen”
May 14th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
I’ll always have a special affection for the Disney animation movie “Frozen” because it was the first film seen at the cinema by by granddaughter Catrin (then a month short of her third birthday) and I had the pleasure of taking her to see it [my review here]. Since then, she’s seen it again at […]
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Why big data can be helpful to health and why I’m wearing an activity monitor for seven days
May 13th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
We live in the era of big data when it is easy and cheap to record, store and analyse vast quantities of data. This has huge implications for individuals, corporations and governments because we can learn so much from such data that can help individuals to live more healthily or companies to sell us more […]
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Remembering those who fought for freedom in World War Two
May 11th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
This afternoon, my wife Vee and I were at Brookwood Military Cemetery, south west of London, for a ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. It was my first visit, but Vee has been once before. Brookwood is the largest military cemetery in the UK with […]
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Two wonderful days with my adorable granddaughter Catrin
May 1st, 2014 by Roger Darlington
As regular readers of this blog will know, I try to see my granddaughter Catrin – now three and a quarter – once a week and usually I collect her from nursery on Thursday and babysit her that evening while her parents are busy. This week has been different though because her nursery was closed […]
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That zip wire fiction burn three months later
April 30th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
It’s now exactly three months since I suffered quite a severe zip wire friction burn in Costa Rica at the beginning of a three-week holiday to five Central America countries. You can read an account of the zip wire ride and see a photograph of my injury here. Since then, the wound has healed well […]
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Time for an up-date of what I am doing in my ever-changing portfolio career
April 26th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
For the last 14 years, I have been a portfolio worker, holding a mix of appointments, some paid and some unpaid, all to do with consumers, most to do with communications. The composition of my portfolio regularly changes as appointments cease or new ones start, so it is not surprising that even my family, let […]
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OK, William and Kate, but we were there (sunset at Uluru) first
April 23rd, 2014 by Roger Darlington
William and Kate – otherwise known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – are pictured in many newspapers today witnessing the sunset at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia. You can see some pictures here. A year ago, Vee and I thrilled to exactly the same view and you can read our account here.
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Viewing the wonderful cut-outs of Henri Matisse with delightful Czech mates
April 21st, 2014 by Roger Darlington
We have had a very busy, but very enjoyable, Easter hosting a visit by two Czech friends to our home in London. We have known Kaca. the daughter of our dear, deceased friend Pavel [my tribute to him here], since she was three, whereas we have only met Lenka, married to one of Kaca’s cousins, […]
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The nearest I came to becoming a Member of Parliament
April 19th, 2014 by Roger Darlington
I was interested in the news that Austin Mitchell is to step down as a Member of Parliament at the General Election next year. Mitchell first became am MP in 1977 when he fought and won a bye-election in Grimsby occasioned by the premature death of the sitting Labour MP and Foreign Minister Anthony Crosland. […]
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