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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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A whole day looking after my baby granddaughter
June 17th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
My new granddaughter Catrin is now exactly five months old. I’ve seen her most weeks, but usually just for a couple of hours when I’ve often taken her out in her pram or more latterly buggy. On two evenings, I have babysat with her to allow her parents to go out together. This week marked […]
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A sleepy day in Abingdon
June 12th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This weekend, Vee and I made one of our regular trips to see our Chinese ‘family’: Zhihao & Hua and their four-year old son Joshua. They have just moved from Oxford to Abingdon and this was the first time that we had visited their new home. Kung Fu Panda (aka Roger) with an ‘angry’ little […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (10)
June 11th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Although a lot of times, I write on this blog about weighty political issues, I know that some of NightHawk’s readers are much more interested in what’s happening to my granddaughter Catrin. Well, she’s almost five months old now and continues to do really well. Since she was born, I’ve managed to see her almost […]
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