Just in

Articles by Robert Tickler

Avatar photo
About Robert Tickler

A man of financial substance, Robert has a wide range of interests and opinions to match. More Posts

Hartsbourne

I have always been fascinated by great houses. It’s not so much the architecture and grounds but those that lived and stayed in them. Melanie Gay, knowing that I always want to learn more about places I have visited or intend to, recommended me a book called the Riviera Set by Mary Lovell. I [...]

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day

Yesterday I saw no less than 3 medicos wishing to clear them all in one day. I started with my first series of vaccinations for a trip to India later in the year. I like my doctor as he is old school, very experienced and optimistic. I won’t see a GP who is rushed and does not maintain eye [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Madama Butterfly/Glyndebourne on tour

There are two types of annual production at Glyndebourne: the main festival where you have all the trimmings of black tie formality, picnics in the gardens and tickets that go up to £250 or the tour with younger talent, less formality and tickets about 25% of the festival. Not that the tour is a [...]

October 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Struggling in the Internet world

One of the recurrent themes in the Rust is the difficulty we experience in a increasingly Internet reliant world. Over the last few days I have had some stressful occasions caused by Internet service. The first was the printing of some travel documents. In the good old days my travel agent would [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Plus ca change….The more you are deranged

After seeing the play First House last week I was struck by certain similarities to our own times. There was a referendum on Europe, the start of Militant Tendency and industrial  strife. Those of us who remember  the decade of the miner’s strike, 3 day week and internal dislocation will [...]

October 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

A family golf day

Yesterday I attended the 32nd annual golf tournament of a family I know well. It’s always played at Royal Ashdown Forest, a natural and beautiful course with no bunkers. Some 20 years ago I went there with my father. It proved to be one of his great golfing moments, perhaps even one of his [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Acting tales

Yesterday I had a lunch with a good pal and conversation turned to actors and acting. My friend once shared a flat long ago with Alan Dobie and is still good friends with David Warner. These may not not be household names but in their day were highly respected, successful actors of stage and [...]

October 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Party time

Around this time of year I give a party for my neighbours and local friends. This started as flat warming three years ago. That  party went well and I thought a late garden summer party after many have returned from their holidays and the weather can be unseasonably warm would work well. Polly [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bloody Mary/bloody mindedness

Our charming and cheeky waitress Camille finessed the failure of my Bellini and Elodie’s Bloody Mary to arrive together by informing us she is going to the bar for “Ze Bluddie” right away. Over the 24 hours in Paris I would substitute this for bloody mindedness of which we [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Paris

We travelled by Eurostar an experience I found greatly preferable to airplanes. Modern airports are so stressful, you are in the air for less than an hour and still have the journey from the airport to the city centre of Paris.  On the Eurostar the seats are comfy, the carriage service efficient, [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

1 … 29 30 31 32 33 … 44

Copyright © 2024 The National Rust | Design by Premonition