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A doctor formerly specialising in sexual health, Oliver has written widely on matters relating to sex, relationships and counselling. He is divorced and has one daughter. He is a keen skier and mountain biker. More Posts

An incident in a supermarket

A true story. Yesterday, shortly before 6.00pm, I set off to drive into my local town in order to buy some food provisions that (I had been informed) were absolutely essential if I wished to enjoy the full majesty of my much-anticipated evening meal. My shop of choice for this expedition was [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buddy road chat

Twice this week I have been a passenger on long car journeys largely spent in conversation with a friend who was the  driver. There is  something about a such a journey that is conducive to a deeper conversation. In both cases the journeys were blighted by traffic jams that put at least another [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Barely out of second …

And so to BBC2 at 8.00pm last night, on a whim, in order to see the first outing of what Chris Evans and the BBC had achieved with their much hyped-reboot of Top Gear. [For more expert critical reviews Rust readers should go to today’s newspapers and social media]. The disappointing answer was [...]

May 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaching the end of the road

Yesterday I went to the south coast to join a lunch at which my aged father was present. During the ten days since I had last seen him he had an ‘incident’ in which, in seeking to remove his car from a car park, he drove quite hard into another car by somehow getting confused and accidentally [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

The best of Homer

No apologies from me or the Rust for sharing with our readers today this piece on the website of The Daily Telegraph on somebody’s pick of the 40 best one-liner gags from the US cartoon series The Simpsons over the past quarter of a century, or whatever length of time it is since the characters [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why am I surprised it’s coming to this ..?

As an ‘oldie’ I’m very conscious that modern technology if not life, is leaving me behind, albeit the fact doesn’t particularly bother me. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that I appreciated, while completing the survey of best/favourite songs that my brother occasionally conducts, that [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to do it!

Continuing our time-honoured tradition of bringing interesting and/or significant items of public interest to readers of the Rust – well, that’s as good an excuse as any – this morning I thought I would provide a link to this vitally-important article that appears today on the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

World’s apart

The process of ‘growing up’ (or is it ‘growing old’?) is a strange one, but I was thinking about it yesterday and it seems to me that reaching overall impressions and conclusions about the world just doesn’t get any easier. This self-revelation is somewhat disappointing because – [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Adventures in Human Being/ Gavin Francis

When I was a GP I was always amazed how little my patients understood their bodies. The odd heavy drinker had undue faith in the regenerative powers of his liver but to most you had to explain that the heart was a muscular pump. Thus Gavin Francis, a Scottish doctor, has done a service in his book [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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