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This shoulder of a giant doesn’t need standing upon

Staying in the country over the weekend, on Saturday in perfect weather conditions we joined a party that took a motor launch out of harbour and across the Solent to drop anchor off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. Our purpose was no more than to enjoy a birthday picnic lunch and watch some of the [...]

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fat lady is not even in the wings yet

Make no mistake about it – and irrespective of the result of next weekend’s third and final Test match – their 24-21 epic victory over the All Blacks at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday morning UK time will go down as one of the greatest moments in the long history of the [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Ooops …

You know how – no matter how impeccable our DNA, upbringings or social manners – sometimes we find ourselves saying something appallingly inappropriate, insensitive or crass … and then afterwards either genuinely ‘find ourselves in hot water’, or get mocked and teased about it by others, [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of it

Some modern ‘big issues’ that constantly reoccur (or is it ‘never fade away’) have probably occupied the minds of great thinkers since time immemorial. Three easy examples coming to me as I begin typing are the questions ‘How did the universe begin?’, ‘Does God (or a Supreme Being of [...]

June 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of what’s coming further down the line?

For my sins – actually it was a privilege – yesterday I accompanied my 91 year old father to a ‘Fifty Years On’ reunion lunch at his old university college at which, having ‘gone up’ in 1943 at the age of eighteen under a WW2 scheme whereby chaps going into the services could do a year [...]

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

You CAN be serious!

All four regular readers of the sports pages of this esteemed organ will be all too familiar with our two longest-running debating points. However, for visitors from Mars, or indeed those who have erroneously alighted here completely by chance when searching the internet for something else, I list [...]

June 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

What happens when you turn your back …

Having returned from my luxury three-week river cruise down the Danube, during which my iPad broke down and I couldn’t be bothered to seek out alternative means of keeping in touch with world events, still less those occurring at the Rust, I was somewhat surprised to discover that ‘the [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Modern life

Although occasions when your author ejects a mouthful’s worth of his breakfast cereal across the room first thing in the morning are thankfully as rare as hen’s teeth, I have to record that one such occurred yesterday shortly after my butler had brought me my copy of The Times newspaper. [...]

June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Treating triumph and disaster just the same

Yesterday I travelled to the Pre-Operation Assessment centre at the hospital where I had my hip replacement operation last year, having been requested to do so in order to take further part in the research project which I had consented to join shortly before my operation took place. Regular readers [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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