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A day in Oxford with our Chinese ‘family’
May 15th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I spent today in Oxford visiting our Chinese ‘family’: Zhihao and Hua and their four year old son Joshua. We see them every few weeks because they really are as close to us as family. Today we visited the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (where we bought Joshua a toy snake) and […]
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The 600th Thought For The Week
May 8th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
For some 12 years now, each and every week I have sent out a motivational thought to an e-mail list which has grown and grown, so that it is now around 1,700 friends and contacts all around the world. My Thought For The Week goes out each Sunday and today I’ve sent out the 600th. […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (8)
May 5th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This morning, I had two meetings in central London and then I stayed downtown to spend the afternoon with my adorable granddaughter Catrin who is now almost four months old. Her dad – my son Richard – takes one day a week off work to look after Catrin and today was one of his ‘daddy […]
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Is there a flower with your name?
May 3rd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I have just discovered – via an Internet contact in California – that there is one with my surname. It’s called ‘Darlingtonia californica’ and it’s a rare carnivorous plant. How cool is that? More information here.
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A view from the Arab world
April 27th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I send out a Thought For The Week by e-mail (if you would like to receive this E-mail me). This week’s thought is: “Just because you’re breathing doesn’t mean you’re alive.” My e-mail goes out to almost 1,700 people all around the world and I had this response from one of my Arab readers: “Yes; […]
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Joshua’s fourth birthday party
April 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I had our first holiday in China in September 2000. On the flight back from Beijing to London, we sat in a row of three seats, the third of which was occupied by a 25 year old Chinese student setting off to Oxford University to commence a PhD in biochemical engineering. It was […]
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Our very busy social week
April 22nd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This week has been amazing in London with consistently hot weather which has been great for the kids off school and the tourists visiting the capital. Furthermore the week has been special for Vee and me for the very full social programme that we’ve enjoyed which has been particularly busy because of Jewish Pesach coinciding […]
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18,000 days of diary
April 15th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
After several failed attempts, I managed to start keeping a diary when I was 12 and my first entry was on Sunday 31 December 1961. Since then, I’ve never missed a single day. This means that now I’m in the 50th year of diary writing and that today marks my 18,000th entry. For eight years, […]
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“We’re gonna need a bigger buggy”
April 12th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I was in central London this morning attending a seminar on media literacy at the London School of Economics, so I sought the opportunity to see my granddaughter Catrin again, since her parents live in town. In fact, today Catrin joined her mother at her consultancy company Aequitas which has its office just off Trafalgar […]
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What those cuts really mean
April 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The dramatic public expenditure cuts announced by the Coalition Government – too fast and too deep in my view – are only now starting to bite with the commencement of the new financial year and the implementation of new tax and benefit changes nationally and of council budgets locally. The impact on many people’s lives […]
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