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Much ado about nothing?

Some of us beyond the age of forty may never have heard of the pop star Rita Ora, 24, who has just become one of the judges on the BBC singing talent show The Voice, for which the 2015 series begins this weekend. I’m happy to confess that, though I’ve heard the name, I’ve never (knowingly) [...]

January 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Waiting for something to happen

I have owned my current car for nearly three years – it is a large SUV bought on a friend’s recommendation as a means of dealing with my chronic bad back that might have been caused or exacerbated by getting in and out of my previous low-slung A3 hatchback. I cannot be sure – and will never [...]

January 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

A near-perfect afternoon

Cold temperatures and winds outside in West Sussex, the food shopping done, a gin & tonic plus two glasses of very acceptable claret and a butternut-squash soup and baguette lunch in your stomach, a bright wood-burning fire blazing in the grate and BT Sport’s live coverage of Harlequins v [...]

December 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

A classic movie

On Saturday 27th December at 3.55pm Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Cane, will be shown on Channel Four. National Rust’s esteemed film critic Neil Rosen has written about this iconic British movie previously but some hold that you can never have too much of a good thing and today I would [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Laughter is such a personal thing

Stereotypical Northern Irishman Frank Carson who, like not a few comedians, made a career out of telling simplistic jokes, used to have a catch-phrase “It’s the way I tells ‘em” which, perhaps one of the ultimate truths about his chosen profession, may explain why we find some performers [...]

December 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Emil Zatopek

Yesterday in the radio 4 programme Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris, Arthur Smith advocated Emil Zatopek. To those that do not know, Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) was one of one of the greatest middle distance runners of all time, certainly in terms of records. He set 18 world records between 5k [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Pointless but fun

Spotted on the website of the Daily Telegraph today, a possible source of reward and amusement – a review of some great episodes of Roy Plomley classic parlour game programme – DESERT ISLAND [...]

November 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

No Picture

Well fancy that!

At the end of a fairly hectic weekend, yesterday for want of anything better to do I prepared a light supper and settled down to watch BBC1’s Countryfile programme which was being transmitted at 6.30pm after the early evening news. It turned out to be a World War One special, with three of the [...]

November 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Details count (sometimes)

Getting up at my usual unearthly hour today, I was mildly amused by Radio Five Live’s coverage of the Ofcom and BBC Trust rebuke for the amount of swearing let loose on air during the coverage of the BBC Big Weekend Event – see here for a report on the website of THE GUARDIAN In about 1980, [...]

October 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The longest night

For reasons which need not concern readers of National Rust – they don’t really concern me either – I was up earlier than normal overnight. At 11.40pm to be precise, having gone to bed just two hours previously. A by-product is that I have been able to tune in to Radio Five Live’s Scotland [...]

September 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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