Archive for January, 2013
Beware the next destination of the Darlingtons
January 10th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
As regular readers of NightHawk will know, Vee and I are enthusiastic travellers around the world. However, in recent years especially, we have had a habit of visiting places which, just before or just after our time there, exhibit troublesome events of either a meteorological or political nature. What do I mean? In June 2001, […]
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10 films that were released in 2012 that you should see in 2013
January 8th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Over the Christmas/New Year period, I saw a relative who enjoys films but has no time to go to the cinema because of her family and work commitments. She knows how much I love movies and asked me to compile a list of 10 recent releases that she should rent or buy. I didn’t find […]
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What a diarist chooses to record on a particular day
January 8th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
This is the time of year when people start a new diary and one finds references to diaries in the media. Since I have kept a diary for 51 years and never missed a day, I’m always interested in the subject of diary-keeping and I was really amused by this letter in the “Guardian” newspaper: […]
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Happy 150th birthday to the London Underground
January 7th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
For about 30 years, I travelled on the London Underground every working day. For the past decade as a portfolio worker, I have continued to use the tube – as everyone calls it – an average of three or four days a week. So it is a big part of my life and that of […]
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Our plan to ascend the tallest building in Western Europe
January 6th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just booked to take Vee to the top of The Shard in London on Valentine’s Day. At a height of 1,016ft (310m), this is the tallest building in Western Europe. Should be fun!
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10 things happy people do differently
January 5th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
An American friend has drawn my attention to this interesting article on the Huffington Post web site that identifies 10 factors in making for a happy life. There’s a lot of sensible advice here which reflects some of the points I have made in my own essay “How To Be Happy”. The is now a […]
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Ever heard of Reinhard Heydrich?
January 2nd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
More perhaps than any other single Nazi other than Adolf Hitler himself , Reinhard Heydrich was responsible for the Holocaust since in January 1942 he chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference that planned the so-called Final Solution. On 27 May 1942, Heinrich was the subject of an assassination attempt in Prague and, on 4 June 1942, […]
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New year … new diary … old eccentricity
January 1st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I have managed to keep a diary for every day since I was 13. So I have now clocked up a total of 18,626 entries and I am just about to start my 52nd diary. As this article suggests: “to write a diary for any extended period is an exceptional and eccentric act”. The article […]
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A review of “All About Eve”
January 1st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
As regular readers of NightHawk will know, I am film enthusiast and often go to the cinema and rent recent releases, all of which I review on my web site. However, one of the advantages of subscribing to a service like Lovefilm is that one can rent movies from way back to appreciate for the […]
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