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Fitness and the far-off past

At the risk of spreading boredom amongst Rusters I am beginning today’s post with an update upon my recent attempts to hold back the effects of old age with an ongoing fitness campaign which have been only partially successful. Regular readers may be vaguely familiar with my progress in this [...]

December 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Bad day blues

Before sleep gathers me in its warm embrace I like to ponder on my day. Did I achieve all I wanted? What went wrong and why? What was the high point, what was the low point? Last night I reflected on a bad day … The initial problem I had to confront was that my iPad – my main vehicle of [...]

December 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Personal stories

For some reason best known to themselves my normal pedicurist and her temporary replacement have confided in me about their personal romances. The permanent holder of this august position as my podiatrist is an Italian woman called Elana whom I have been seeing for some 5 years. When I first met [...]

December 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Daffers go ethnic

One of my beefs about ethnic cuisine is whether it’s high-end or your local balti house there is not a huge difference. Two recent experiences made me feel differently. The first was at Trishna in Blandford Street in what estate agents call Marylebone Village. The scrumptious Sir John R (his [...]

November 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Clive James RIP

Yesterday my brother gave me a lift from the south coast back to my home. On the way I commented that we should remember the date Wednesday 27th November 2019 because one day in some far off Pub Trivia Quiz it was possible that the question might come up as to which three culturally-significant [...]

November 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Yet more computor generated aggro

Yesterday I received a letter – no doubt computer-generated – regarding my renewal of travel insurance. The letter was dated 22 November and the final date for renewal was 22 November so the policy had lapsed. I had even spoke to them on 21st October informing them that the bank for [...]

November 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Where’s it all going?

Take a pinch of White man Wrap it up in Black skin Add a touch of blue blood And a little bitty-bit of Red Indian boy Curly Latin kinkies Mixed with yellow Chinkees If you lump it all together Well, you’ve got a recipe for a get-along scene Oh what a beautiful dream If it could only come true [...]

November 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sense of perspective

One of the troubles with being over a certain age is that – having necessarily and inevitably lived one’s youth and maturing years in a society with one set of mores – it’s often quite easy to get suckered into raising an eyebrow (and sometimes more, e.g. one’s hackles) at the [...]

November 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Getting a taste for it

The drinking and appreciation of wine is arguably one of the great hobbies of Man. There’s been a lot of it about for tens of millennia and who could argue that relaxing over a glass of something rather special isn’t one of the great pleasures of life? I’m certainly not going to. Across the [...]

November 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Against all odds

Self-indulgent it may be, but today I return to the travails of seeking to retain peak fitness in one’s seventh decade – ready at a moment’s notice, should the need arise, to take the field for either England in a major international and/or Team GB in the 2020 Olympics at any sport in which a [...]

November 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

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