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Derren Brown – the great mentalist
July 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Last night, Vee and I joined our friends Eric and Cindy to attend the Shaftesbury Theatre in central London for a show mounted by the British illusionist Derren Brown. It is called “Svengali” and it is the fifth of his theatre tours. Brown asks his audience not to reveal the nature of the show to […]
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Thought For The Week now received by 1,700
July 9th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Each Sunday, I send out an e-mail with my Thought For The Week (and notes of new items on my web site). The circulation list – which is genuinely worldwide – has just reached 1,700. You can check out the 600+ thoughts sent out over the last 12 years here. If you’d like to receive […]
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The “News of the World” scandal reminds me …
July 9th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
… of a short story I wrote two years ago entitled “The PM And The MP”. Check it out here.
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One million visits in first six months of 2011
July 7th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Like most people who have a web site, I regularly check the traffic statistics to see how much interest there is in my material. I’m pleased to say that, if the first six months of this year, the total number of visits to my web site – which incorporates my personal and professinal blogs – […]
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A walking day in sunny Kent
July 3rd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I spent the day driving down to Kent to visit our friends Derek & Mandy Bright. They have a place in a hamlet outside Faversham and we ate lunch in the bright sunshine in their small orchard, before going for a long walk, and finishing up at a pub in the picturesque village […]
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Vee’s speech in Czech
June 30th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
A couple of weeks ago, I did a blog posting about the visit by my wife Vee and me to Pardubice in the Czech Republic to attend a an air display where she was awarded a medal to commemorate the wartime exploits of her father Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC & Bar. I reported that […]
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My offer to become a London Ambassador (4)
June 28th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As I have reported in previous postings, I have applied to become a London Ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games – but my interview is not till the beginning of August. In today’s “Guardian” newspaper, there’s an article by some else who has applied. It seems as if, of the 33,000 people who originally registered, […]
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The amazing art of Ben Wilson
June 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It was my birthday this weekend (thanks …) and I celebrated by going out for dinner with friends in Muswell Hill in north London. As we walked back from the restaurant, a piece of chewing gum on the pavement was pointed out to me as a strange work of art. The artist is a guy […]
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Vee and I mark 30 years together
June 19th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Today is the 30th anniversary of my first date with Vee. I invited her round to my place and cooked her a meal. It was pork chops and treacle tart – I know the way to a girl’s heart. Three decades later, we are are still together and still happy. In a case of role […]
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That was the week that was
June 17th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As a semi-retired portfolio worker, my weeks are very varied, but this week was an exceptionally full and interesting one. On Monday, I travelled from London up to Manchester. I spent the afternoon with my step-mother and the evening with my brother, his partner and their daughter who is almost eight now. On Tuesday, I […]
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