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The ‘art’ of keeping a diary

Way back in 1989 – I just looked this date up on the internet – I bought an excellent anthology of diary entries entitled Each Returning Day: The Pleasure of Diaries, edited by a gent named Ronald Blythe. I no longer have my copy, but I remember it fondly partly because at the time I was in the [...]

October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

You read it here first!

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … or maybe it is just that at last the long-held Campion-Brown view of the Brit Establishment gaining some adherents. Here’s an opinion piece by Quentin Letts that I spotted today on the website of the – DAILY [...]

October 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Five points – not to be sniffed at

Friday 6th October 2017, kick off 7.45pm: Premiership Rugby Round 6: Harlequins v Sale Sharks at the Stoop: Harlequins 42 Sale Sharks 26: Harlequins 5 league points (4 for a win, bonus point for 4 tries) – Sale Sharks 1 (for 4 tries). League positions: Harlequins 5th on 15 points, Sale Sharks 8th [...]

October 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Heathrow wait

By family arrangement last night I drove to Heathrow Terminal 2, parked in its short stay (pick up) car park and then made my way inside in order to await an Anglo-friendly family member by marriage who was arriving from Canada at approximately 9.00pm. My task was to convey him to the home of one [...]

October 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

A man who wouldn’t back down

Awoke and came to my computer around midnight last night and heard on Radio Five Live that Tom Petty had suffered a heart attack. I went straight to the newspaper websites and read that some agencies had apparently claimed he’d already died but later reports had denied this was the case. I [...]

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting behaviour and team discipline – on or off the pitch

When it comes to sport – one of the main interests of columnists on this website – the Rust has a number of recurring subjects, issues and themes. Currently there’s plenty happening on the world stage – no surprise there – but today I’ve decided to post some personal reflections [...]

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

The power of sleep

I make no apology for beginning this post with three quotations: “Life is a sexually-transmitted disease and the mortality rate 100%” [R.D. Laing]; “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” [Ernest Hemingway]; and “Early to bed and early to rise [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

A family catch up (and a Quins match)

Saturday 30th September 2017 – Rugby Premiership Round 5: Northampton Saints v Harlequins at Franklin’s Gardens: Result – Northampton Saints 30 Harlequins 22: League table latest positions: Northampton Saints top on 19 points; Harlequins 9th on 10 points. Regular readers will know [...]

October 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Glad that day is over

I would like to think through no fault of my own yesterday I had something of a frustrating day. Firstly, my fitness campaign has been going to pot recently. A fortnight ago I began my week weighing 12 stone 8 pounds – this down from 13 stone 12.2 pounds at the beginning of January – but over [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wow! The opening night of a brand new season

The currently-embattled Football Association’s new Women’s Super League season kicked off last night with the female version of a famous ‘city derby’ match between Everton Ladies and Liverpool Ladies played at Widnes. Reports of the match will testify that the match ended in a 0-2 [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

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