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Another day at the coalface

Here comes a tale of modern times. In March of last year – don’t laugh – I was burgled whilst having my afternoon nap in my flat. The facts are relatively simple if almost unbelievable. I had arrived home from a barely alcohol-driven lunch in central London and, because as usual I had been up [...]

August 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Looking forward

For anyone ‘beyond a certain age’ the modern world presents a never-ending series of challenges. Various contributors to the organ over the years have described their experiences of having the rules that once governed the world as they knew it when they were growing up (and then tried to live [...]

July 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sport, money and television

“There’s nowt so queer as folk …” is (and I’ve just looked this up) an old idiom from either Yorkshire or Lancashire and probably comes from the same stable as “There’s always someone worse off than yerself …”. Be that as it may, I was reminded of it overnight as I saw a report in [...]

July 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast

In one form or another it was perhaps ever thus, but the fact is that the modern world and its media are full of reports and stories covering the vagaries and random challenges thrown up by life ‘as it is’ and as others experience it. For every disability, condition, disease or affliction that [...]

July 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s going to get hotter, some say …

It was billed as potentially going to be the hottest day ever in Britain – and what’s wrong with that, bring on climate change if we’re going to get scorching summers, better vineyard produce and no need to go on any more package holidays to Mallorca, I say(!) – but as I watched the news [...]

July 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Circus has come to town

In a variety of forms there exists a maxim called “The Duck Test” which, at one time or another, every man jack of us alive has applied to situations we’ve comes across. I know I have. You know the one: put at its simplest, it runs “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks [...]

July 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Time to take a deep breath

Having long followed UK politics from a one-stage-removed and bemused standpoint I reckon I passed my “You couldn’t make it up” moment watershed in about 1980 so nothing that has occurred since should really have surprised me. In one sense it hasn’t simply because, the more bizarre each [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Who are we – and what are we doing here?

Beginning my daily review of the news websites this morning I was still reflecting upon last night’s Channel Four documentary Moon Landing Live broadcast at 8.00pm which I happened to watch in the company of a forty-nine year lady and my son Barry who is thirty-seven. It was a fascinating [...]

July 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

I must go down to B & Q’s

As an avid reader of the Rust I often smile when reading the campaign running by my sport colleagues and sometimes wonder why they haven’t been attacked on social media or even reported to those authorities concerned with imposing “equality” upon Britain in the 21st Century. Nevertheless, [...]

July 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Not waved, but drowned

From me today no comment at all on the latest on Brexit, the Tory Party leadership contest, or the anti-semitism problems of the Labour Party – we’ve all had enough politics to last a lifetime during the past three years. Instead, another “hats off” to one of my favourite [...]

July 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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