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A weekend visit to our Czech mates: day 2
June 7th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The reason for our visit to the Czech Republic this time was to attend the second day of an air display at Pardubice where Vee would be awarded a medal to commemorate the wartime exploits of her Czech father Karel Kuttelwascher. Now Pardubice is 58 miles (94 kms) east of Prague and the organisers had […]
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A weekend visit to our Czech mates: day 1
June 6th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It’s two years since I’ve been to Prague [my blog posting here], but this weekend I made my 23rd visit in as many years [my notes on city here]. The reason for all these trips is partly that my wife Vee is half Czech and her father was a famous wartime night fighter ace [brief […]
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Oh, what a delicious mess
May 28th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I do love my desserts as I’ve explained here. This evening, I had dinner with friends and concluded with a dish with the delightful name of Eton mess. In fact, our friend Nina also had the Eton mess but only ate half of it – so I finished her mess as well. We are dinner […]
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How to reduce the risk of a heart disease
May 26th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
For three months in early 2009, I took part in an international trial of something called the “polypill” to test its efficacy in combating heart disease. The pill contains aspirin 75 mg, simvastatin 20 mg, lisinopril 10 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg. I blogged regularly about my experience with a concluding post here. The result […]
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Time with American friends in Dover
May 21st, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The trouble with having friends all around the world is that I don’t see some of them for many years at a time. This is the case with our American friends Michael & Laura Grace who live between Washington DC and Baltimore. So, when we heard that they would be doing a trans-Atlantic cruise that […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (9)
May 20th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This week, I had another opportunity to check in on my beautiful granddaughter Catrin who is now four months old. She’s started to teeth and sometimes in distress, poor thing. It was another ‘daddy day’ and daddy was pretty tired, so I took Catrin out for a hour and a half to give daddy the […]
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How diverse is your community?
May 19th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) has just published new population estimates by ethnic group for England & Wales. The “Guardian” newspaper has an article on the subject which includes access to an interactive map. The headline message is that, of the 54 million people in England and Wales, the non-white British population has […]
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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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