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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

One small step for man … (Part II)

Yesterday afternoon, and probably inevitably, by 4.30pm I was back at the phone shop. Overnight in the wee hours I had set about the task of getting to grips with my new Huawei P30. I tried to establish in it my two email accounts, my preferred Apps and some new ones I was being offered, in order [...]

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Yesterday I took a step into the unfamiliar and – to me often baffling – modern world by the simple means of upgrading my mobile phone, a move that apparently came my way because I had come to the end of my current two-year contract. As any oldie will tell you, such things are always beset by [...]

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it …

Misconceptions are two a penny in the 21st Century world and one of them is that this organ is for old people, which is not the case at all. The Rust covers everything and anything – okay, many of its contributors are as old as the hills, but what’s wrong with that? We cannot help it, can we? I [...]

February 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Contrary to what you might think …

Good morning everyone! I’m not sure whether it’s a case of ‘What goes around, comes around’ or, alternatively perhaps, a product of something specifically to do with my encroaching senility and accompanying embracing of the joys of being gradually relieved of my responsibilities for [...]

February 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

“Fake News” musings

One of the joys of being ‘being a certain age’ is the sense you has seen it all before even if, on a personal level, that isn’t quite necessarily true. The art of staying personally relevant in the 21st Century is tied to the notion that, whatever is going on, the essential nature of the [...]

January 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Facing forward

As we progress into a new 21st Century decade [or do we? – on Boxing Day a family member told me that some are still arguing whether the Millennium should have been celebrated on 1st January 2000, or rather a year later] some readers may have been turning their minds recently towards measures or [...]

January 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

The art of it is that there is no art

During our impromptu festive phone call yesterday, in passing the Rust’s editor and I touched briefly upon the number of business journalists, marketing and branding experts, friends and acquaintances who still express themselves baffled by our astonishing global commercial success. Actually, to [...]

December 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fake News (not!)

You know those occasional days when – with every last detail of your carefully-constructed schedule double-checked and for just once in your life, against all expectations, you seem to be ‘ahead of the game’ as you set off … and then something happens which no amount of D-D-Day Landings [...]

December 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Not so much Murphy’s Law as a Murphy no more …

Yesterday I had a poignant brush with the past – my own, and possibly also that of others of a similar age and state of mind. Eons ago, well approximately 52 years ago when I was being educated in a boarding school far away in the country, in one circumstance or another – probably a deal for a [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Making a hash of it

Anyone who has ever used a keyboard will be familiar with the vagaries of random fortune when it comes to tapping the wrong key, a phenomenon that doesn’t necessarily fade into the distance even when modern technology specifically designed to prevent or protect the tapper against the problem is [...]

October 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

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