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It’s an international world
February 25th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
This evening, Vee (half Welsh and half Czech) and I (half English and half Italian) drove over to Muswell hill in north London to have dinner with close friends. On the way, we stopped off at Brent Cross to buy a rail for the wall carpet that we purchased in Iran. Our friends are both […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (5)
February 24th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
My granddaughter Catrin is now just over five weeks old and I called in to see her for an hour this afternoon. It was my eighth time with her but, for a variety of reasons, I won’t now see her for a few weeks. Of course, I’ll be keeping in touch with her mum & […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (4)
February 18th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Well, last night I had a new experience: for the first time in my 62 years, I babysat alone for a one month old (I don’t remember doing that even for my own son Richard at such a tender age). The baby was, of course, my beautiful granddaughter Catrin and the occasion was the first […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (3)
February 15th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I had a lovely time on Sunday when Richard & Emily came over with their baby Catrin. They gave us a hinged double frame – one side had a photograph of Catrin and the other had a plaster mould of her foot print and hand print. The five of us went for a […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (2)
February 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It’s Day 25 in the young life of my beautiful granddaughter Catrin and I saw her for the fifth time today. Her mum Emily had to attend a Board meeting so her dad Richard looked after her in a nearby cafe. After my Consumer Focus Board meeting, I took a taxi to the cafe and […]
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Happy Chinese New Year (2)
February 6th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As I explained would be the case in an earlier posting, today Vee and I joined our wonderful Chinese ‘family’ – Zhihao, Hua and Joshua (almost 4) – in celebration of the Chinese New Year in central London. We were in Trafalgar Square for the noon explosion of hundreds and hundreds of firecrackers, but there […]
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Baby Catrin: progress report (1)
February 4th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It’s Day 18 in the young life of my beautiful granddaughter Catrin and I visited her for the fourth time today. The poor thing is not looking her best because she has milk spots so no photographs here for a while. But she’s doing really well and already weighs 9lb 6 oz. Richard & Emily […]
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My offer to become a London Ambassador (1)
January 30th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
As I mentioned in a blog posting six months ago, I registered my interest in becoming one of the 8,000 London Ambassadors who will welcome visitors from all over the world to the city during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Applications opened on 21 January and close on 28 February so, this weekend, I […]
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Sat hello to my first grandchild (5)
January 28th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
By popular demand, I offer you some further photographs of my darling granddaughter Catrin: In her special car seat Thinking in the bath “Who is this funny man?” It is Day 12 in Catrin’s life and today I visited her for the third time. She told me that mum and dad are doing a great […]
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Say hello to my first grandchild (4)
January 22nd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It’s Day Six in the life of Catrin Darlington, my beautiful new grandadaugther, and proud parents – mum Emily and dad Richard – are being really good in keeping us up-to-date with developments. This morning they got the baby gym out and she is captivated by it – as you can see. “I really like […]
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