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Looking forward to his retirement in 2015, Arthur has written poetry since childhood and regularly takes part in poetry workshops and ‘open mike’ evenings. More Posts

And the weekend is still yet to begin …

Regular readers of the Rust may be able to recall my report last week about being texted by my bank at home and being asked if I’d just spent over £200 on groceries in the United States. Shortly afterwards a phone call to their customer service line revealed that there had been an apparent [...]

November 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Give me strength!

I’m currently sitting at my computer just after 2330 hours on Sunday 22nd of November 2015, positively steaming at what I’ve just been listening to on the Stephen Nolan Show on Radio Five Live. Having gone to bed even earlier than normal (1940 hours), I awoke not long ago and decided that of [...]

November 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Proving I’ve still got it …

There I was, minding my own business watching television last night, when at about 8.30pm a ‘ping’ indicated that a text had arrived on my mobile phone. So far so good. A short while later I wandered over to the sideboard to see whether at last Sophia Loren had seen sense, found herself staying [...]

November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Facing reality

I had a bit of a shock to the system – and a blow to my self-image and indeed self-esteem – on Friday. A younger member of the family was doing what people of her generation do from time to time, viz. downloading onto a computer some of the thousand or so photographs that she had taken on her [...]

November 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s the 21st Century after all …

We’re all products of our own age, or perhaps that should be ‘… of our own lives between the ages of 18 and 24’? I like to think that I’m a liberal (with a small ‘L’) sort of a guy who embraces the proposition that we should all be able to do exactly what we want, provided of course [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting away with it

Here’s a conundrum – as a matter of fact, is public speaking an ‘art’ or ‘skill’? And, whichever the answer, is that a matter of generally-accepted definition, or just personal opinion? I ask this because I know some people who are proficient public speakers – and have attended my [...]

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nooooooooooooooo!

I hate it whenever one of the ‘temples of eternal truths’ of one’s youth is proved to have been built upon sand. It may only have been about ten years ago that I first learned that actress Diana Copeland – perhaps best remembered as Sid James’ long-suffering wife in [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign of the times

In my capacity as a Rust-er observing life as it is lived in the 21st Century I sometimes alight upon an item on the internet that amuses or causes pause for thought. My grandmother, who died in 1977, held views that no doubt reflected the attitudes of her time. One of them was that men who grew [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another brave new world

For the past week Sky News has been running a series of reports on the rapid and ongoing development of ‘smart’ robots, thereby prompting a discussion upon the potential threat to jobs represented by the possibility that one day there’ll barely be a reason for human beings to work at all [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming out of the woods with my hands up

There have been reports in the media this week detailing the findings of a YouGov poll on sexual preferences released last weekend – including the fact that almost a quarter of Brits (23%) would not regard themselves as exclusively heterosexual, a figure rising to 49% amongst those aged [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

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