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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

Surveys may come and go

We’re at the back end of what is known as the media ‘silly season’, but there still seems to be some life yet in the dying embers. Hot on the heels of this week’s revelations that bacon, sausages – and all the other foods that for three decades and more have been blamed for causing the [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Losing it (or not?)

When you get to my age you have to be constantly on the look-out for signs that you’re going ga-ga. Stuff like getting to the top of the stairs and then forgetting why it was you went up there; being unable to find your house/car keys; forgetting someone’s name as you’re introducing them to [...]

July 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Foot in mouth as an occupational hazard

Perhaps the blazing sunshine I’ve been sitting in this week has fried my brain, but today I’m almost going to argue against the very reasons that I first began contributing my scribblings to the Rust, i.e. the belief that those of us beyond the first flush of youth still have valid things to [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on

Someone once said “The world takes you at your own estimation”. Even though my kids are now in their thirties, I often quote that statement at them. I’m not 100% certain what it means, but the way I interpret it is that, broadly-speaking – and I’m not talking race, class or gender here [...]

June 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Progress is a matter of opinion

I have a general ‘love/hate’ relationship with modern life and in particular computers. Back in my schooldays we used to Roneo off an alternative school magazine on a typewriter, a species which had the advantage (then and now) of doing only exactly what you asked it to do. You typed onto a [...]

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Saluting a classic

They say that simple things please simple minds and here I declare my devotion to the American television animation series The Simpsons which, at times when I am bored or otherwise waiting for something, I occasionally seek out either on Channel Four or on Sky. Decades ago I worked in television [...]

May 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sending off

Yesterday afternoon I took my elderly father to the funeral of an old pal of his at a nearby crematorium. We decided to get there early because we’d heard parking might be an issue and we also wished to scout the toilet facilities situation – my father is currently suffering from a slight [...]

May 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Falling off the pace

Ten days ago I came across a couple of signs that modern life is leaving me behind. I first received a communication from DVLA in Swansea announcing that my car tax disc was due to be renewed at the end of the month. Actually, hold the phone, that isn’t quite true. My tax disc wasn’t due for [...]

April 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Taking the plunge

I wouldn’t say that I am a caffeine addict, but when I first rise in the morning – rarely outside the period 0001 to 0400 hours – I first fire up my computer and then habitually make myself a sizeable slug of black coffee. I would go so far as to claim that, for me, drinking it [...]

April 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

How the world works

Racial – or should I say ‘national’? – stereotypes may have become somewhat ‘non-politically correct’ in recent times, but that doesn’t mean that people refrain from either privately thinking them and/or uttering them publicly. You know the sort of thing I’m talking about, and you [...]

March 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

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