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About Bryn Thomas

After a longer career in travel agency than he would care to admit, Bryn became a freelance review of hotels and guest houses at the suggestion of a former client and publisher. He still travels and writes for pleasure. More Posts

Another enjoyable outing

Flushed with heady enthusiasm as a result of gaining permission from the National Rust editor to post twice in twenty four hours, today I report upon a golf match with my two brothers, the latest in a keenly-contested series that has been running since about 1968. It was undertaken at Goodwood [...]

July 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

An experience in the round

Yesterday to Guildford, in order to watch the second of a four-day county cricket match between Surrey and Kent in a party hosted by an eminent Surrey CCC grandee. Driving home afterwards, I tried to think of the last time I had taken time out to watch a county game. I think it may have been a [...]

July 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

What’s it all about, Alfie?

Yesterday, according to media reports, the Uruguayan soccer team manager Oscar Tabarez gave a press conference in which he accused FIFA of making Louis Suarez a scapegoat and claimed the global criticism of the World Cup ‘biting’ incident in the Uruguay v Italy match had been whipped up by [...]

June 28, 2014 // 1 Comment

Adapting creative ideas from the past for future exploitation

Down at the coast for the next ten days to sail, I spent most of yesterday on the Mountfield sit-upon motor-mower, playing catch-up on the ‘painting the Forth Bridge’ chore of clipping the various lawns. The Mountfield does the business okay but, from a layman’s perspective, comes with an [...]

June 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

A marketing experience

Although my daughter took her first degree in marketing and I know several people who work or worked in advertising, I am neither expert in the theories behind persuading people to buy things they didn’t know they wanted, nor a fan of the means by which they do so. For me, television commercials [...]

June 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

An old friend drops by

After lunch at the coast yesterday, I spent some time sitting with my father on the terrace overlooking his lawn, ‘chewing the cud’ together. With thunderstorms and torrential rain predicted for today, the weather couldn’t quite make up its mind and was alternating weak sunshine with dark [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

A worthy television piece

Sunday nights in my household are set aside for doing nothing – well, apart perhaps from taking the shoes off, flicking through the newspapers, grabbing a bite to eat and watching bland television. Last night, finding myself in a bored mood, just passing time – unable to raise much interest in [...]

May 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Modern life

Something slightly unusual happened to me yesterday. Having set off first thing to take my car to my local ‘little man with a garage’ for its annual MOT, I returned home (using my Freedom travel pass on a bus) and then set about occupying myself until I received the call to go and collect it. [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

One of us was wrong

My kids are always teasing me about the early onset of Alzheimer’s – indeed, my daughter regularly asked if I’ve had myself tested recently. I’m convinced this is prompted partly by the fact I cannot recall much before the year 2000 and partly by my avowed intent to live life in the [...]

March 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Britain’s Great War

I trust our regular National Rust readers – 57,000 per day, according to the latest figures – will forgive me beginning this review of the first episode of BBC’s first World War One centenary offerings, Jeremy Paxman’s Britain’s Great War series [BBC1, 9.00pm Monday 27th January], with a [...]

January 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

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