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A retired academic, Jeremy will contribute article on subjects that attract his interest. More Posts

Treading very carefully into the lionesses’ den …

I’ve just donned my battered tin helmet as a precaution before beginning to pen this piece. I did it in anticipation there’s a very good chance that I’ll soon be dodging ‘incoming’ (flak) simply because I’m happy to admit membership of the ‘unreconstructed male’ camp which decided a [...]

February 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Swings and roundabouts

It’s not often that contributors to this esteemed organ receive invitations to the publisher’s country pile on the outskirts of one of the most notable conurbations on the south coast and when we do they are treated by us all as more of a summons than something with an option to decline [...]

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

Ooops!

I know that I am not the only contributor to the Rust who has irregular sleep patterns – in fact I think, based on an informal survey I conducted at last month’s office Christmas party, that more of them would subscribe to my quip “I still sleep the same average number of hours [...]

January 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

Life keeps moving

Yesterday my brother and I drove separately into the countryside in order to spend some time with our father and attend a meeting with an executive of the agency that provides his live-in carers. Although it may sound glaring obvious, when a close family member reaches his tenth decade one becomes [...]

January 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

Roll on January 2nd!

There – still a few days to go before normal service is resumed but I think I’ve just about got through the festive period unscathed. There’s a point at which, when you live alone and – if you are left to your own devices – the whole of your existence becomes a matter of glorious routine [...]

December 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Be careful what you wish for

And so we learn that Birmingham has been awarded the right to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games against (it must be admitted) not many other bidders, most of whom seemed to pull out of the competition anyway before the decision was made. I have long been in favour of doing away with our world [...]

December 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unhappy times

From where I sit in my master control suite surveying the goings on in the world of sport I sometimes reflect upon the debilitating and gradual disengaging effect of creeping age upon a sports fan’s mind. I might have once have called it ‘creeping maturity’ but I’m sufficiently ancient [...]

December 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

What goes around, comes around – or does it?

No wonder all these ‘Snowflake’ Millennials get confused about life and how it works. A few years back [what am I saying? 10? 15? 20? – when you’re as old as I am time slips by so fast it’s hard to tell when was what …] all kids were encouraged to go to university. It was practically [...]

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sign of the times

When everything that US President Trump touches, discusses, gets involved with and/or comments upon seems to be controversial, it is difficult to decide upon which issue he poses the gravest threat to humanity and indeed the planet we inhabit. Some moaning liberals might suggest global climate [...]

October 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

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