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Sport – and the same old, same old …

No apologies as today I revisit two of the Rust’s favourite vexed sporting subjects, corruption and performance-enhancing drugs. THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT Today the UK media’s ‘back pages’ – okay, European football apart – are full of reports about the IOC ceremony celebrating the award of [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Monday shopping nightmare

On Monday of this week I went shopping at my local well-known supermarket store. I registered that the omens were not good the moment that I drove down the driveway to the car park and spied that it was packed with cars – and so it proved. I should add here the information that (and I do not [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Spanish lessons

The reader might justly enquire what is my motivacion for learning Spanish. The answer is two fold:- (i) I have been travelling to Spain and intend to do so more often and feel disadvantaged by not knowing the language; (ii) I want to see how difficult it is at my age to apply myself to learning [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of earning respect

As any fule no (reference Nigel Molesworth, the fictitious character invented by Geoffrey Willians, first appearance in Down With Skool (1953), illustrations by Ronald Searle of St Trinians fame, public recitations of which by our deputy headmaster were a staple of Saturday afternoons from about [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Knocking heads together

Leaving mana-a-mano ‘fighting’ (viz. boxing and mixed marital arts contests) aside because some might argue they’re so patently dangerous to brain health that the argument is slam-dunk unanswerable, what might be termed full-on ‘physical contact’ team sports – e.g. American football, [...]

September 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back in the groove

Saturday 9th September 2017: Rugby Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester at the Stoop (crowd just under 13,000). Result: Harlequins win 28-17. After two rounds of the league, Quins are now – one win, one loss – in sixth position and Gloucester in seventh. This was a heartening and much-needed [...]

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

A funeral

Yesterday I attended the funeral of the mother of a friend I have known since school. A funeral, the finally passing of person from earth, is a sad occasion. Yet if the deceased has had full life – this lady was 92 – then there is less tragedy and the life should be celebrated. In this [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Records are only records

Comparing great sportsmen of different eras is a parlour game that all sports fans have indulged in from time to time – and will do as long as sport remains a human pastime. It’s sometimes held to be the case that statistics cannot lie, but then you have to check out which statistics you’re [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stirring the pot Morgan-style

For good or ill, the rather irritating former editor of the Daily Mirror and now all-round ‘shock jock’ celebrity/personality Piers Morgan is currently providing some of the best current affairs entertainment on his several times a week gig – usually partnering former BBC presenter Susannah [...]

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bottoms up!

There are professional wine experts, amateur wine experts … those who would like to be one or the other … and then there is a vast rump of people who drink wine with varying degrees of enthusiasm (and/or need) largely without pretensions, or making a song and dance about it, or even [...]

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

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