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Sounds like I was well out of it

English Rugby Premiership, Round 7. Harlequins v Worcester Warriors @ the Stoop, Saturday 28th October, kick off 3.00pm. Result: Harlequins 41 Worcester Warriors 35. League points: Harlequins 5 (win plus 1 four-try bonus point), Worcester Warriors 2 (losing bonus point plus four-try bonus point). [...]

October 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sign of the times

When everything that US President Trump touches, discusses, gets involved with and/or comments upon seems to be controversial, it is difficult to decide upon which issue he poses the gravest threat to humanity and indeed the planet we inhabit. Some moaning liberals might suggest global climate [...]

October 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Checking things out

Purely in the cause of promoting the spread of general knowledge, public education and in case it may also be of interest to discerning Rust readers (obviously), this morning I provide a link to a piece I spotted on novel career opportunities by a lady who goes by the name of Venus O’Hara, as [...]

October 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Over to you, God

It is a plan fact of life that, via nature or nurture, some people are just designed to irritate others. Here’s my story for today. Deep in my past I, partly because of my legal training, at one stage in my life I became involved in taking the minutes of board and other important meetings. [...]

October 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another report from the exercise frontier

This is another in a sequence my occasional Rust posts reporting and commenting upon my late-life attempts (well, at 65 I don’t think I can qualify anymore as ‘middle-aged’) to improve the health-promoting aspects of my lifestyle habits via a self-devised dietary/fitness campaign. Firstly, [...]

October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of keeping up

Regular readers will be aware that from time to time the Rust has taken to featuring pieces on long-running issues, arguments or campaigns in which it is interested, many of them concerned with the world of sport. My opinion piece today is another. It is a fact of life that – in common with every [...]

October 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

It looks like Brexit for Quins

Sunday 22nd October 2017: European Rugby Champions Cup 2017/2018: Pool 1 (Ulster, La Rochelle, Wasps, Harlequins): Round 2 match – Wasps v Harlequins at the Ricoh Stadium, kick off 5.30pm: Result – Wasps 41 Harlequins 10. During the week I met up with some long-suffering Quins pals and others [...]

October 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The slippery pole

These days I no longer spend much of my time pondering upon the great mysteries of life, a fact that I tend to put down to the fact that – in my mid-sixties – if I haven’t worked them out by now, and were suddenly to find the ‘key’ to everything this time tomorrow, it wouldn’t matter a [...]

October 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s boiling up

It wasn’t long ago that at a Rust editorial get-together the ‘News and Current Affairs’ contingent entertained the assembled multitude with an amusing line that in recent times they had begun to feel at something of a loose end, this in the sense that these days, given the recent [...]

October 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Well, what do you know?

I have a confession to make. I am not a great reader of books and never have been. Being a robust, physical little kid, I always found the prospect of concentrating upon anything as sedentary as studying or indeed ‘reading for pleasure’ as a waste of valuable mischief or sport time. I suppose [...]

October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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