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Back to Black

I’m not saying that I know I’m preaching to the converted but it will come as no surprise to regular visitors to this website that a recurring theme is not nostalgia per se, or indeed any notion that Fings Ain’t Wot They Used Ter Be, but a simple (and some might like to think logical) common [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Crown

Seeing a reference to Claire Foy in Bob Tickler’s rant sorry crafted piece inspired me to watch the series The Crown on Netflix. This proved to be no easy matter. Netflix appears in the Home Page after the TV switches on and then disappears. My wife Gail and I had various attempts at [...]

January 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of ‘making up your own rules’

One of the great things about the Rust – and it took a while to dawn upon me – is our laissez-faire editorial policy. When I first joined I found it all rather disconcerting. Indeed I found I wasn’t by any means the only correspondent who had initially felt it that represented [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could have knocked me down with a feather

Today I shall be venturing a little beyond my remit for my first post of the New Year. Perhaps due to the blizzard of family activities, the McDonnell household has been full of chaos in recent times and – with not least my own catering duties to the fore – I have necessarily been distracted [...]

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Can we fast-forward exactly twelve months please?

Well, thank God that’s over – and I don’t even believe in Him! You can call me Scrooge, or worse, if you like but I always find the second half of December going into the New Year as an ordeal and this one’s been no different to any other. It’s one of the most challenging periods of the [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

One that just keeps going

These days I am no longer a habitual listener to radio but that doesn’t prevent me having fond nostalgic memories of The Goons, Radio Luxembourg, Two Way Family Favourites, Radio One’s (Alan Freeman) pop chart show, Round The Horne and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again from my [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art(ifice) of staying relevant

Overnight the news came through that Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor had died at the age of 99 from heart-related issues. In the public consciousness she seemed to rank in what might be described as the second division of pneumatic movie blonde actresses from the 1940s to 1960s: I’m [...]

December 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

House of Cards ( US version)

I have been a bit late on Netflix, indeed if they did not inform me that after I cancelled a credit card they had difficulty in taking my sub, I would not even had known it was feature of my tv package. I have seen most of their scanty international films and enjoyed Marseilles. So recalling the UK [...]

December 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Park your indignation and simply wallow in it

It’s that time of year again. This week has seen the publication of the shortlist (or is it nominees?) for the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year charade that takes place every December and already we’ve got a raft of holier-than-thou journalists, representatives of B-list sports and inevitably [...]

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re always playing ‘START ME UP’ somewhere …

Being a fan of old-style Rhythm & Blues – rather than the modern hip-hop variety – I’ve been a fan/follower of the Rolling Stones down the ages ever since they first crossed my radar, probably at some point in 1963 a few weeks or months after the Beatles. I won’t provide here a summary [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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