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A former GP in the Home Counties, Wendy’s busy life revolves around her husband, grandchildren and two Labrador dogs – though not necessarily in that order. More Posts

A guilty pleasure that sometimes delivers the goods

In liberal circles (with a small ‘L’) and among those of us who regard it as no more than a right-wing/middle class version of the Red-top tabloid British rags, the Daily Mail had a reputation – to adapt Prince Philip’s famous dismissal of the Daily Express – as [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The ‘Wow!’ factor

Just in the cause of proving that those of us who are beyond the first flush of youth can still keep up to date with the modern world – here’s something rather ‘cool’ that I’d like to share with Rust readers. Sometimes things you spot on the internet just boggle the [...]

March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

What men don’t understand

Inevitably upon a daily basis there is a ton of stuff in the media of doubtful use to anyone, but just occasionally something comes along and makes me laugh (nearly out loud). Which is why I’m sharing it with Rust readers today – DAILY [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

And so it will come to this

It is, of course, the duty of all Rust contributors to keep an eye open for items in the media that might be of interest – whether practical or just passing – to our readers. In that spirit, I feel justified in bringing to wider attention the following report by Shivali Best that [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

The nuts and bolts of sexual attraction

I believe that it was that film star Paul Newman, well-known for his marital fidelity to second wife Joanne Woodward, who first coined the immortal phrase “Why go out for a hamburger when you have a steak at home?” but recent media reports, here in the form of Christopher [...]

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Making the world go around

Anyone who’s reached the age of twelve or thirteen is capable of appreciating that human relationships – opposite sex or same-sex – are infinitely complex. They can be subtle – or decidedly unsubtle. I’m talking about all relationships here, not merely about [...]

June 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Women and danger

In terms of female equality, now decades beyond the clichés of John Gray’s Women Are From Venus, Men Are From Mars, in recent times there have been media discussions of the effects of women’s menstrual cycles upon sporting performance and the menopause upon women’s working [...]

March 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ready, Steady, Go!

For most of us, after the excesses of the festive period, the New Year brings attempts in various degrees of determination to ‘make that change’ (whatever it, or they, might be). I’m sure that many follow my own traditional routine of hatching my list of ‘improvement’ goals anywhere from [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Counting the cost

As everyone knows, the issues surrounding growing and/or being old are some of the most pressing for modern society – not least because of increasing human longevity and the attendant alleged under-shooting of actuarial projections as to how the potential costs to the taxpayer of [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

An awkward topic

Life is finite – there’s no getting around it. I think it was in a self-written film scene that Woody Allen once quipped “I don’t fear death – I just don’t want to be there when it happens”, but it’s certainly the case that the approaching end of a life (and the surrounding issues [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

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