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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

Don’t waste it!

“The funny thing is, I find the more I practice the luckier I get” – Gary Player’s famous response to someone who had suggested that a brilliant shot to the green during his just-finished round had involved a slice of good fortune – was far more than just a slick response to a cheeky [...]

June 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s like cool

Yesterday I was travelling by train. I had my Saturday papers of choice, the Telegraph and Independent, and was looking forward to a leisurely read. Two young women then decided to sit opposite. As is so often the case, however hard I tried to read the papers, I found myself listening to their [...]

June 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Search called off

I’m up early this morning and the sad news has just been confirmed on Radio Five Live that the US coastguards have called off their search for the four missing Brit sailors, having found the overturned hull of the Cheeky Rafiki and established that their lifeboat was never even deployed. Here’s [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Against all odds

I return to this subject today, after a degree of soul-searching and a discussion with the editor of the National Rust, and I need to come clean as to why. Like most people, sometimes I hold views that might be controversial in certain company. But, being a wimp (or should that be ‘a normal human [...]

May 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The unvarnished truth

The depressing news that the US and Canadian coastguards’ search for the four experienced British sailors on board the 40 foot yacht Cheeki Rafiki, which got into difficulties returning to Britain from the Caribbean, was called off on Sunday evening continues to feature in the media. I have a [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

The old ones are the best

Yesterday I drove to the coast to spend a couple of days with my father. In the late morning, my brother arrived to join us for lunch. As the local pub turned out to be shut for the day, we strayed further afield and ended at a gastro-pub close to the sea-shore. My father has a reservoir of [...]

April 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Classic FM

Alongside the more highbrow Radio 3, Classic FM is regarded as the Reader’s Digest of classical music. It repeats well-known classics, what impresario Victor Hochauser called the bank manager’s choice, and has disc jockeys. In some programmes the jockettes  have velvety sensual [...]

March 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ice with everything

Encouraged by the proverbial sackful of Twitter and email feedback – not all of it positive – in response to my article upon women and sport, I now feel emboldened to take unto myself the title of National Rust’s unofficial Winter Olympics correspondent, not least since the position [...]

February 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

In my own sweet way, I regard myself as an enlightened metrosexual gentleman – in this context I would cite the example that I go to the expense of applying shaving cream before scraping my chin, rather than just soap and water as was the habit of my grandfather. And yet we are also children, if [...]

February 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

No Picture

Maybe there’s no solution …

Through a combination of prolonged sessions on my computer, watching too much television and a touch of insomnia, in the last 24 hours I have been subject to a deluge of information and discussion about the heavy weather afflicting the UK and its ongoing effects. Most recently, by accident, having [...]

February 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

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