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An update on granddaughter Catrin
April 6th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
My darling granddaughter Catrin is now almost 15 months old and an absolute joy. She is such a cheerful baby and a tribute to her parents Richard and Emily. She is very vocal and playful and lots of fun to be with. I try to see her each week and this week I collected her […]
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Our participation in UK Biobank
March 30th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
An incredible snapshot of the health and lifestyles of 500,000 Britons – including 26,000 people with diabetes and 50,000 with joint disorders, 41,000 teetotallers, and 11,000 heart attack patients – is now available for medical research. With more than 1,000 separate pieces of information already available on volunteers aged 40-69 when they joined the project, UK […]
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The three conclusions reached by almost all conferences/seminars/workshops that I attend
March 25th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
The problem is complex and multi-facted There is no silver bullet or one size fits all We need to have more information/do more research/ have another meeting to bottom this out Does any of this resonate with you?
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I hear ‘the Father of the Internet’
March 24th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
For those of us steeped in Internet matters, the wonderfully named Vint Cerf is a mystical figure. He is universally known as “the Father of the Internet” because – together with Bob Kahn – he published “A Protocol For Packet Network Internetworking” in 1974 which was the technical basis then and now for the Internet. […]
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My new appointment in the water sector (2)
March 21st, 2012 by Roger Darlington
A few days ago, I did a posting about my appointment as Chair of the Customer Challenge Group at South East Water. The company has now issued a media release on the appointment which you can read here.
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Remembering the Musahar – the poorest of the poor
March 19th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
One of our closest friends is Cindy Berman who is Senior Social Development Advisor in the British Government’s Department For International Development (DFID) . She has responsibility for DFID projects in a group of south-east Asian countries ranging from Afghanistan to Vietnam. Last week, she was in India and returned just in time to attend […]
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Our 30th wedding anniversary celebration
March 18th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Tomorrow Vee and I will have been married 30 years and today we celebrated the event with lots of family and friends. The stylish venue was the Music Room at the Grim’s Dyke Hotel – the former country residence of Sir William Gilbert – in Harrow Weald near to where we live in north-west London. There were a […]
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My new appointment in the water sector (1)
March 17th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Since I took early retirement from the Communications Workers Union 10 years ago, I have been a portfolio worker with a mix of appointments, mostly representing consumers and mostly in the communications sector. It is in the nature of portfolio working that the mix of responsibilities changes over time. I have just completed my four-year […]
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My second visit to the Online Centres Foundation
March 16th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Earlier this week, I made a second visit to the Online Centres Foundation in Sheffield, the organisation of which I have just become a non-executive Board member. I went there in my capacity as the Chair of the Board’s Remuneration Committee to attend a staff meeting where we discussed the future remuneration package for the […]
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Has Spring sprung?
March 11th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Here in London, the sun is out and the weather is warm, so Vee and I were able to have lunch on the terrace for the first time this year. How was it for you?
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