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Farewell to a Canadian sporting giant

About a decade ago, on the back of a golfing tour of Ireland in 2004, I went off to Canada to see some relatives and pals for ten days. My hosts in Toronto took me one day to the Rogers Center, home of the Blue Jays the city’s baseball team that plays in the American League, Eastern Division. [...]

November 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Good old Sussex by the Sea

Yesterday I awoke to the most beautiful dawn of vivid blues and pinks over the sea. I drove over the glorious South Downs and did some early morning shopping in the picturesque village of Rottingdean. I thought of those London commuters pasty-faced, inhaling foul air struggling to work they do not [...]

November 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Against all odds – but that’s sport I suppose

Sunday 5th November: Anglo-Welsh Cup 2017/2018: Pool 2 (Exeter Chiefs, Harlequins, Sale Sharks, Dragons); Round 1: Saracens v Harlequins at Allianz Park, kick-off 3.00pm: Result – Saracens 29, Harlequins 30. Harlequins now second in Pool 2, behind Exeter Chiefs, on 5 points (4 for a win and 1 [...]

November 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

What goes around, comes around – or does it?

No wonder all these ‘Snowflake’ Millennials get confused about life and how it works. A few years back [what am I saying? 10? 15? 20? – when you’re as old as I am time slips by so fast it’s hard to tell when was what …] all kids were encouraged to go to university. It was practically [...]

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A brief encounter

Never mind Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey or the MPs sex scandals – Ingolby has still got it! Yesterday afternoon I waddled up the hill to my local gymnasium, situated at the back of a pair of rather upmarket hotels, intent upon nothing more than blowing a few cobwebs away and getting the blood [...]

November 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Treading a careful line

My post today springs from my reaction upon reading a report penned by Roisin O’Conner that appears on the website today of – THE INDEPENDENT (I feel should begin by declaring my inadequate qualifications for my position as occasional Rust musical correspondent. The fact is that, [...]

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Why does it ALWAYS happen to me?

What did I tell you? This morning I walked into my local high street in order to get some cash from a ‘hole in the wall’ outside my branch of Nat West Bank shortly before 9.00am. This accomplished, I was walking back home when I passed the M & S store. Remembering that I had run out [...]

November 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

This week’s sporting headlines

For the benefit of Rust readers everywhere, here are two sports stories from today’s media that caught my eye:   FORMULA ONE After the departure of Bernie Ecclestone and the purchase by Liberty Media of the Formula One juggernaut, there were always going to be changes – some might say [...]

November 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The times I live in

THE STEPPING MACHINE Last night, after yet another day spent largely in front of a computer screen (for reasons of both necessity and choice) – bar one short trip by car for a food shop – at about 5.00pm I deliberately set off to stride up to my gym for a session intended to ‘blow the [...]

October 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Time to strap yourselves in, folks!

Okay, so these are pretty weird times in both British and world politics – so let’s review where we’ve got to, shall we? BREXIT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER Whether we blame that pompous Eton-educated Tory posh boy David Cameron for promising the UK electorate an In-Out EU Referendum – either [...]

October 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

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