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Guy Danaway and his family live on the outskirts of Rugby. He is chairman of a small engineering company and has been a keen club cyclist for many years. He has edited Cycling Weekly since 1984 and is a regular contributor to the media on cycling issues. More Posts

The lottery of Life

When Camelot first won the franchise to run the UK Lottery in 1994 [I’ve just googled the date: the first-ever lottery took place in November of that year and Camelot was re-awarded the franchise in 2001 and 2007 with the current franchise period running from 2009 to 2019], along with just about [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new business opportunity

This one comes straight from the “You couldn’t make it up” genre of newspaper website stories but, in case Rust readers have missed it on their daily trawl of the internet, today I really did feel the need to draw their attention to this recent story on the imminent arrival of the concept of [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health and relationships

It’s an open secret that the editorial board of the Rust rarely meets in person, conducting as it does most of its business via the modern technological marvel of the internet. However, it is also metaphorically true that – at our editorial ‘gatherings’ over the ether – nothing invites [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A churchyard matter

Last week my father told me when I was down for a visit that the grave of his sister, who died last September aged 94, was in a state of some disrepair in a nearby churchyard – he knew this because he’d recently visited it in the company of my brother. Yesterday, having completely a food shop [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Keeping the flame alive

I don’t know for sure but I suspect that a proportion of the Rust’s estimated 875,000 daily readers would agree with me in occasionally becoming tired and frustrated at the incessant complaints of some of our most prolific columnists about the modern world and the way that technology and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Can we fast-forward exactly twelve months please?

Well, thank God that’s over – and I don’t even believe in Him! You can call me Scrooge, or worse, if you like but I always find the second half of December going into the New Year as an ordeal and this one’s been no different to any other. It’s one of the most challenging periods of the [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The lessons of Team Sky

Watching the careful nursing of Chris Froome up and over Joux Plan reminded me of Sir Alex Ferguson in a documentary about himself saying he keeps a photo of migrating geese in his office for it’s a perfect formation. Froome was injured the day before and the road down from the mountain was [...]

July 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get serious

One of the benefits of getting old is that life becomes ever more simple and straightforward – that’s what I like to maintain, anyway. The thing is that – as modern life hurtles on past your train window – we all tend to get fed up trying to stay ‘connected’ and gradually regroup (or [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cav superstar

If Mark Cavendish was a Frenchman he would be hailed as a national sports hero and demi-God. His 29th win in the Tour De France elevates him above Bernard Hinault and second only to the legendary Eddy Merckx in the all time Tour standings. This is quite some record but I doubt if it will make him [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back in the old routine

Early yesterday evening I went up to the gym to blow a few cobwebs away by doing what at my age I would call a session (but maybe those under the age of forty might not because it consists of me doing only whatever exercising I can until immediately I feel either body or spirit becoming unwilling). [...]

June 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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