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I sometimes wonder whether when we Rusters appear a service a notice comes up to the provider: “Ruster alert, be unhelpful” One of my colleagues was berating the dilatory nature in which a finance house produced paperwork – or failed to. I was promised that a pack crystallising a stagnant [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part III)

They say that in life that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better and but yesterday I think I just about held my own – which is a laidback way of reporting that I shall be on my way back to the phone shop as soon as it opens this morning to try and discover the answer to a [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part II)

Yesterday afternoon, and probably inevitably, by 4.30pm I was back at the phone shop. Overnight in the wee hours I had set about the task of getting to grips with my new Huawei P30. I tried to establish in it my two email accounts, my preferred Apps and some new ones I was being offered, in order [...]

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Yesterday I took a step into the unfamiliar and – to me often baffling – modern world by the simple means of upgrading my mobile phone, a move that apparently came my way because I had come to the end of my current two-year contract. As any oldie will tell you, such things are always beset by [...]

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye upon some perennial favourites …

Here’s an update upon the latest media stories on two issues we feature regularly in our Rust sports coverage: CONCUSSION Iconic Wales rugby union player George North is even now undergoing concussion protocols as a result of yet another head injury he sustained in the last round of Six [...]

February 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ 24 hours dining in London

I had a whirlwind trip to London in which I visited three of my favourite restaurants: Fischers, the Wolseley and the Goring. I have reviewed these often enough so I will only say that all three maintained  their high standards of cuisine, comfort and service. At the Wolseley I gave an old friend [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fitness, health and phones in the modern world

I suspect this – my latest report from the front-line of sexagenarian super-fitness campaigns – will merely go to underscore the truism that ‘oldies’ have it tougher than any other generation. Okay, we baby boomers started it all – with the Yippies’ rallying call of “Never trust [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend (from the rear-view mirror)

My sporting weekend began with me deliberately ‘passing’ on the opportunity to watch both Saturday’s Six Nations rugby matches because I was engaged in a wide variety of domestic matters – a move partly inspired by my experience of finding the sport increasingly boring and mundane as the [...]

February 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard; what do you do if…

You have a disappointing meal and the owner asks you how was it? I answered evasively but my girlfriend/diner was more forthright, complaining that the lamb was tough and gristly, potatoes soggy and she did not like it at all. She might have added that the various entree dips were far too vinegary [...]

February 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Just another day at the bank

My late father used to take a fairly robust attitude towards alleged corporate inefficiency, incompetence and/or poor practice which is why, whenever he came across a glaring example, he always contacted the head of the organisation concerned. He justified this practice on the basis that – in the [...]

February 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

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