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A man of financial substance, Robert has a wide range of interests and opinions to match. More Posts

Let there be light

Yesterday was a nondescript sort of day with nothing special planned. Then at 10-00am all power terminated in my home. I am familiar with the tripping of the keyboard and assumed that all would and could be corrected. Not so. So I next called up an electrician who walked me through it. At 5-00pm [...]

May 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

My last day’s shopping

Yesterday was our last full day and I decided to make mine my customary shopping visit to the high end menswear shop Bexley in the centre of Nice. I cannot find any equivalent to Bexley in the UK as its range covers shoes, suits, jackets, shirts and leisure wear. I especially like their [...]

April 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Travelling in France and a visit to Cannes

Yesterday Team Rust travelled by rail from Sanary to Cannes to where my late mother’s best friend had moved. We travelled by rail. On arrival at the station at Sanary we had been informed that, due to a strike by maintenance staff, the train would be 20 minutes late. I thought we would miss [...]

April 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Nice

As with the rest of our party I was delighted to be travelling again and to be back in Nice at my favourite time of year. The season begins in April 15 and early May on the Riviera becomes busy and crowded with the twin attractions of the Monaco Grand Prix and the Cannes film festival. Mind you [...]

April 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Coverage of war over the years

I used to enjoy discussing with my late father how World War Two was covered. His father would go to the cinema twice weekly for Pathe News so the newsreel and the commentary of Bob Danvers Walker were vital. Winston Churchill would deliver his radio message in that re-assuring resonant voice [...]

March 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bamber Gascoigne

I met Bamber Gascoigne twice in my life: the first was when I was first reserve of our Magdalene College University Challenge team. Gascoigne had attended  the same college and spoke to us after an ignominious defeat by Hertford Oxford. He was a courteous  man and a clever one too as he composed [...]

February 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Religious partying

Religious observation, ritual and practice and I separated irrevocably many years ago. Like so many negative decisions, I did not wake up one morning to renounce my faith but rather a slow and gradual distancing from religion. Most of my friends do not share my or possess any faith. However my [...]

February 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Decluttering

A Japanese businesswoman Marie Kondo has made a fortune by advising on decluttering. She calls herself a consultant organiser. Her books are best sellers. She sets up seminars which are moderated by one of her employees. Her philosophy is only to retain items which spark joy. I decided to adopt a [...]

January 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Remembering my father

Yesterday was my father’s birthday and – had he not passed away nine years ago – he would have been 99. I think of him every day now, less in terms of loss, more of legacy. He was a wise, gentle man, a superb, much-loved and respected doctor by his general GP practice as well as his [...]

January 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Great Train Robbery (2013 two part film)

Yesterday over lunch I discussed with a friend roughly my age the seismic events of out lifetime: the assassination of President Kennedy, the landing on the moon, the killing of John Lennon, the death of Princess Diana and the Great Train Robbery. The sheer audacity of the gang, who on August 8th [...]

December 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

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