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Another avventura

We Rusters can be accused of many things but of not shying away from the challenge of a new experience. Not for me a few cosy non-executive directorships, thank you, but rather a motivation in what must be the final stage of life to enjoy travel and the bucket list of pleasures and pastimes denied [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

The complexities of life

Sometimes the issues attendant upon possessing and living with an elderly relative are, or gradually become, complex, disarming, enlightening and occasionally bizarre. Perhaps, simply because human society is such a contrary and wonderful thing, nobody should be surprised about this. In addition, [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Southampton Boat Show

This was my first visit to the boat show and only my third to Southampton. On arrival at the dock area of Southampton Nancy Bright-Thompson  and I were impressed by the modernistic high rise architecture and its proximity to water reminded me of Canary Wharf. It was a run down area but now houses [...]

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Looking without touching

Yesterday, a freebie ticket having come my way, I visited the 2017 Southampton Boat Show. Over the past decade and a half I would say I’ve averaged roughly a visit every other year to this annual event – not a bad score for someone who does not consider themselves a sailor. My reasons for [...]

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

No doubt those Rusters who are sports fans will have done a double-take over their muesli bowls and toast & marmalade this morning when chancing upon the media story that Rio Ferdinand, legendary former Manchester United and England defender, is switching sports to become a professional boxer [...]

September 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A close run but wonderful thing

Sunday 17th September: English Premiership rugby, Round 3: Wasps v Harlequins at the Ricoh Stadium, Coventry: Wasps 21, Harlequins 24: League position after 3 rounds – Wasps 2nd on 10 points, 1 behind leaders Exeter Chiefs (whom they play next weekend); Harlequins 5th equal with 9 points. I’m [...]

September 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another underwhelming dip into the music world

A week or two ago – no doubt to the despair of publishers now fighting a rear-guard action to deny it by deploying such contradictory evidence as they can collect – there was a media story doing the rounds to the effect that in the 21st Century there was an increasing trend of people [...]

September 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s going on (again)

The weirdest thing about British politics is the extent to which the average punter like me (and I certainly don’t claim any personal special skill or facility for doing this) can reach conclusions about – or see blindingly obvious logic in the implications of – events that happen, or crises [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Grooming and relationships

On this organ we sometimes poke fun at the ways of the media – you know the sort of thing, ‘silly summer stories’, spectacular ‘fails’ going viral, and of course the time-honoured staple of madcap scientific surveys with blanket generalisations for conclusions that are either [...]

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with it

Regular readers of the Rust will probably be of a vintage able to recall the Andy Capp cartoon strip drawn by Reg Smythe for the Daily Mirror newspaper. Capp was almost an early version of a British Homer Simpson, a working class Everyman from whose ‘ordinary’ interests in life – pubs, beer, [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

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