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The next stage

Yesterday – five weeks and counting after my hip replacement operation – I went for my first physio session. Regular followers may recall that I only reached this stage because a couple of weeks ago, puzzled that I hadn’t already been called for physio as I understood would be the case, I [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t hold your breath, anyone …

Saturday 20th August 2016. The Stoop, Twickenham. Second and final official pre-season match: Harlequins v Glasgow Warriors. Result – Harlequins 22 Glasgow Warriors 17. These days the Harlequins club chooses to call its season ticket holders ‘members’ and bombards them with emails and [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bedroom success

One of my father’s party-pieces was to declare to anyone who would listen – as often as not, female attendees at family functions or drinks – that “All I know is, I haven’t had my fair share …” (by which he was referring to sex). I well remember the occasion when he deployed it at a [...]

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Grrrrrrr ….

Later today I shall be completing my original course of meds following my hip replacement operation in mid-July. Since emerging from hospital three days after going under the knife I have been wearing compression socks (designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis issues) most of the time and consuming [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of political correctness

For good or ill, we live in a politically-correct world. I say that because it seems to me there are both plusses and minuses to asserting the right of groups of human beings not to be discriminated against – not least that, when you get down to the bottom line and specific matters of principle [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

On your marks – go!

Over the weekend I undertook a shopping expedition to a well-known supermarket not a million miles away from where I live. I’m not naturally a fan of shopping but – when it comes to food – I’ve gradually been trained over the years to become reasonably efficient at it. The only complication [...]

August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

More of the same it seems

Any Rust reader who has ever been a long-term sporting club supporter will find familiar my current state of combined anguish, dread and hope as the Harlequins enter their last few weeks of pre-season prior to the launch of the 2016/2017 Aviva Premiership season on 3rd September. I shan’t bother [...]

August 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympic issues

Yesterday, purely because of circumstances after 48 hours ‘on the road’ in various places, was a bit of a personal rest day and I spent some of it dipping in and out of the television coverage of the Olympics. Here are some observations based upon what I saw – and heard on the radio – [...]

August 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Karamba!

I may be well into my seventh decade but I have rights and feelings just like any other human being. When you think about the Earth’s insignificance in the vastness of the entire universe and the apparent randomness of the chances of life ever evolving at all, let alone to where it has now, there [...]

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

Unlike some of my male colleagues who are making great play of the fact they won’t be watching Rio 2016 as if there is some hardship involved in their decision, I am having an Olympics-free summer with no difficulty or regrets at all – largely because I have enjoyed a totally sports-free life [...]

August 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

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