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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

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

It’s all getting rather serious now

… And so last night we reached one of the critical milestones on the way to the General Election vote on 12th December – the live TV debate between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn on ITV1 at 8.00pm, chaired by Julie Etchingham. The build-up had been tense [...]

November 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Who’s watching who and why?

These days – in the circles wot I move in – it has become a bit of a cliché to mention in company that one is a tad concerned by the manner in which we are, or may be, being watched over or observed without our knowledge or consent. Rusters occasionally detail on this organ instances of [...]

September 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

The art of embracing the new

Sometimes in life you have to try and keep a sense of proportion. For some months now, from the side-lines, I’ve been following the Rust sports department’s campaigns seeking to condemn drugs cheats absolutely and point out the absurdities inherent in the PC-backed thrust to get elite female [...]

August 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Getting through the day

Part of the trouble with monitoring the world’s media for matters impacting upon or potentially affecting those of us over a certain age can, of course, be the occasional confusion or puzzlement the practice can induce. Recently I have come across a couple of items which hopefully may be of [...]

August 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Modern and not so modern life

Even for those of us who abandoned trying to keep up with modern 21st Century life in or before 2001 – simply because it was so much easier and less stressful – it is always comfortably reassuring whenever you come across new developments that contrary to all expectations do seem to be [...]

June 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

To vote, or not to vote …

Yesterday was a busy but sobering day for me – apart from the two pints of Harveys Sussex beer that I sank over a pub lunch with a mate – and, reflecting upon it overnight, seemed to chime with the state of modern life in Britain in the context of general malaise arising from the Brexit crisis [...]

May 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sign of the times, perhaps

A true story. Yesterday, shortly after the hour of noon and the commencement of Prime Minister’s Question Time on BBC1 which I had been watching in furtherance of keeping myself abreast on Brexit matters – under just-issued orders obeyed because my practice is to get my chores out of the way so [...]

April 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sometimes technology works

Some might feel that on the Rust we harp on too much about the complexities and frustrations of the 21st Century, possibly because we’re too old and senile to engage properly or at all with the glorious vistas of opportunity presented to us by modern technology. Today, therefore, I wished to [...]

January 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Make of it (anything) what you will

Last week I found myself in conversation with my father’s current carer, who formerly held a senior position in a church school in his native South Africa. Somehow our discussion moved onto the subject of the wide variety of different ways in which elderly people cope with the vicissitudes of [...]

January 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

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