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Did I ever tell you about my strange but wonderful family?
December 29th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I have a step-mother who is only five years older than my wife and a half-brother who is only two years older than my son. And I have a niece who is just seven years older than my granddaughter. Plus I have a sister-in-law who is a mere 10 minutes younger than my wife. It’s […]
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How was your Christmas?
December 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I spent Christmas with her twin sister Mari and brother-in-law Derek at their home in the village of Felpham on the coast in West Sussex, just outside Bognor Regis. Now Felpham may only have a population of around 10,000, but it is well-endowed, having a community hall, two post offices, and no less […]
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Waiting for the arrival of The Spaniard
December 23rd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In the course of 2011, my most joyful times have been seeing our first grandchild – the beautiful baby Catrin. If you’re a regular reader of NightHawk, you’ll know about Catrin. If not, try putting her name into the search box on the right. Meanwhile my most anxious moments have been reading the blog postings […]
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When ACE became NCU
December 21st, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In 1985, I was a national official with a trade union called the Post Office Engineering Union, although most of our members did not work for the Post Office (they were then in newly-created British Telecom) and they were not engineers (they were technicians who liked to think of themselves as engineers). We were about […]
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When the front door was underground
December 21st, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In the mid 1980s. the bitter miners’ strike was over and the headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers had moved north to Sheffield. At the time, I was a negotiating official with the then National Communications Union and had a meeting at the new NUM offices in Sheffield. When I reached the building, I […]
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Farewell to our special cat
December 20th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In this year’s Christmas letter sent out over the last couple of weeks, we wrote: “In February, our cat Honey will be 20 years old – that’s 96 in human years! She is clearly feeling her age and is happiest when she is within stroking distance of Vee – very high maintenance.” Well, sadly, Honey […]
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Would you like to receive my Thought For The Week?
December 17th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I’be been sending out an e-mail Thought For The Week for around 13 years now – short, positive aphorisms. It started with a dozen colleagues at work and the circulation has grown and grown, so that this week it reached 1,800 all around the world. You can check out all my previous Thoughts here. If […]
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My night in prison
December 16th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This morning, I attended a meeting of the Nominet Policy Stakeholder Committee on which I represent consumer interests. The meeting took place in the Saïd Business School in Oxford and we were accommodated in the city overnight. The venue for the overnight stay was the Malmaison Hotel at Oxford Castle which used to be a […]
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How did I get into computing?
December 13th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The short answer is: slowly. I’ve just up-dated the longer answer which you can read here.
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Family reunion in Leicester
December 11th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Today Vee and I drove up to Leicester for a pre-Christmas family reunion. There were 23 of us in total, including four children (two of whom were not born last Christmas). The older I become, the more I value and appreciate these family gatherings and my sister Silvia – in whose home we met – […]
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