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A partner in an international firm of loss adjusters, William is a keen blogger and member of the internet community. More Posts

A Heathrow wait

By family arrangement last night I drove to Heathrow Terminal 2, parked in its short stay (pick up) car park and then made my way inside in order to await an Anglo-friendly family member by marriage who was arriving from Canada at approximately 9.00pm. My task was to convey him to the home of one [...]

October 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Looking without touching

Yesterday, a freebie ticket having come my way, I visited the 2017 Southampton Boat Show. Over the past decade and a half I would say I’ve averaged roughly a visit every other year to this annual event – not a bad score for someone who does not consider themselves a sailor. My reasons for [...]

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with it

Regular readers of the Rust will probably be of a vintage able to recall the Andy Capp cartoon strip drawn by Reg Smythe for the Daily Mirror newspaper. Capp was almost an early version of a British Homer Simpson, a working class Everyman from whose ‘ordinary’ interests in life – pubs, beer, [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

It all works out in the end

My daily grind includes internet-surfing around the websites of broadsheet UK newspapers both to get a ‘heads up’ on what’s happening in the world and to see if I can come across any new item worthy of using as the subject of a blog. Thus any astute readers or saddo regular followers can [...]

August 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is the future electric?

As an old geezer, I like to swing back and forth between being ‘up with the latest technological advances’ and the direct opposite. It so happens that I was looking through a recent copy of Stuff magazine the other day – it’s the monthly one whose obvious competitor is called T3 – just to [...]

August 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Watt is what it’s all about

With my son Barry staying with me at the moment recovering from his somewhat complicated broken wrist operation we are currently having what might be described as ‘quality time’ together at my gaff. This inevitably has two sides to it because I normally live on my own and he, only semi-house [...]

August 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s in the telling …

There is – as Northern Irish comic Frank Carson was wont to ruminate – something in the way jokes are told that makes them funny, or is that makes them funnier, or indeed less so, depending (of course) upon the skill and timing of the teller. For my part, I don’t regard myself as a naturally [...]

August 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

On fatherhood and advice

From time to time I reflect upon life generally and the fact that human beings continue to learn new things throughout their existence. As a parent this inevitably includes a constantly-evolving relationship with one’s offspring. I’ve blogged before about feeling humbled (in a good way) upon [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future of travel and power?

About eighteen months ago my son Barry, who lives abroad, made one of his occasional fleeting visits to the UK and as usual spent much of it on the move – attending a business meeting, catching up with friends and family and doing some shopping in central London. Sometime last summer he was over [...]

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting reflections upon a July weekend

Like I suspect all who regard themselves as avid sports-followers, whilst I have my favourites and my ‘avoids’ – most of them originally chosen from the array I played (or didn’t) in my schoolboy youth – if push should come to shove of a free afternoon in which to indulge myself, [...]

July 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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