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Want some Christmas gift ideas?
December 3rd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
We bought a load of Middle Eastern ceramic items at a Christmas market and you can do the same here.
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Is it Christmas already?
December 3rd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This morning, I received my first Christmas card …
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Back 37 years to South Woodford
December 2nd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This morning, I took the Central Line out all the way to South Woodford to see a colleague for a discussion. When I left the tube station, I realised that I had not been there for 37 years. I fought the two General Elections of 1974 as the Labour candidate for the then constituency of Wanstead […]
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Day Two with baby Catrin
November 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I was awake several times in the night, wondering why I hadn’t heard Catrin – but it was because she was still asleep. In the end, she slept straight through without waking all the way to 7.30 am. Is this the perfect baby, or what? Once we were both up, I gave her another banana. […]
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Day One with baby Catrin
November 25th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As I explained in a posting four weeks ago, my son Richard and daughter-in-law Emily wished to leave their daughter Catrin with us overnight so that they could go away and celebrate Emily’s birthday. A month ago was the trial run as I stayed with them overnight and took responsibility for Catrin. It worked out […]
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Word of the day: contestation
November 18th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I’ve spent the day at the University of Leicester attending a seminar on digital literacy where I made a short presentation on the regulation of content with the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet [see the text on which I based my remarks here]. Now most of the participants in the seminar were academics and […]
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The Chinese are here again (2)
November 17th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As I explained in an earlier posting, this week I was in Oxford to lecture to a group of 18 officials from the Chinese municipality of Tianjin. I wanted to stimulate them to ask questions rather than simply listen to a prepared text and they were certainly willing to engage with me. It is always […]
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That’s one small crawl for Catrin …
November 16th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
… one giant delight for Roger. This week, my beautiful granddaughter Catrin – now ten months old – started crawling. I collected her from her nursery this afternoon and they told me that she’s been crawling all day. I took her back to her parents’ flat and she was crawling all over the place. It’s […]
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The Chinese are here again (1)
November 14th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
A year ago, I lectured to a group of 24 Chinese officials from the huge city of Tianjin which is administered by the central government. The title of the lecture was “Government Communications In The UK”. I spoke in the morning and my son Richard addressed them in the afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised at […]
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New record of 10,000+ visits
November 9th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Today my web site achieved a new record with more than 10,000 visits in a day for the first time. Thanks so much for your interest and support. Please spread the word about the site to your friends.
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