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What do you do with your holiday photographs?
April 21st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Like most people, I take a digital camera on my holidays. I really enjoy selecting things to photograph and composing the shots – it’s a part of the holiday. On our recent month-long trip to Australia & New Zealand, I took almost 1100 photos. While on holiday, I try to do some editing as I go […]
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We’ve decided that spring has arrived – at last
April 20th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Here in Britain, we had a long, miserable winter followed by a long, cold spring – although Vee and I managed to be in sunny Australia and New Zealand while the UK had its coldest March for 40 years. We returned from holiday to experience snow flurries and, over the past couple of weeks, there’s […]
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A new photo of my granddaughter Catrin
April 18th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Did I mention that I have a granddaughter called Catrin? I did? Well, I haven’t posted a picture of her for two months and, while I was away in Australia & New Zealand, I did not see her for a month. Believe me, she is growing fast and chattering away. She is now two and […]
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TalkTalk still letting down its customers (2)
April 13th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Twenty four hours after I did a posting on my e-mail problem with TalkTalk, I have heard nothing more from the company – but the issue is now resolved. This afternoon, Vee’s nephew Martin came round for tea with his wife and children. Although he works in IT, I didn’t want to bother him with […]
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TalkTalk still letting down its customers (1)
April 12th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Four years ago, I lost my Internet service for 10 days and blogged about the horrendous experience here. This week I fell into another black hole in cyberspace … My Internet service provider is TalkTalk which, ever since Ofcom has published comparative complaints data, has been an outlier with the worst record of any ISP. The latest data […]
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My Thought For The Week
April 8th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Each weekend for more than 13 years, I have sent out an e-mail Thought For The Week to friends and colleagues. You can check out all the thoughts here. The lsit of recipients has grown and grown and, following my recent holiday in Australia & New Zealand, the circulation list has passed the 2,000 mark. […]
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How many countries have you visited?
April 5th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I have always believed the old adage that travel broadens the mind. I love visiting new countrires and experiencing new cultures because I learn so much. Our recent round the world trip has added three nations to my total, so that I have now visited 60. You can view the list – and a world […]
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How long is it possible to sleep?
April 5th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I’m fortunate in that I’ve always slept well and can more-or-less sleep anywhere at any time. If you’ve followed the blog postings on our round the world trip, you’ll have seen that it was an intense exercise with a lot of early starts and a great deal of travelling, so I haven’t been getting as […]
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Our round the word trip (29): conclusion
April 4th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
The final stages of our journey home involved a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles of just 50 minutes on an United Boeing 757-200, a period of four hours at LAX airport, and then another flight from LA to London of 10 hrs 40 mins on an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300. The last […]
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Our round the world trip (28): three icons in San Francisco
April 3rd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Our last day of the stop-over in San Francisco and the final day of our amazing round the world holiday – Day 29 (Tuesday) – began with another Argonaut Hotel breakfast. You order a ham & cheese omelette and you receive an omelette twice the size of any in Europe (they use three eggs) plus […]
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