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Another prodigy who fell in WW1

Here’s an article by Andy Bull that Rust readers and sports lovers everywhere should read – especially if (like me) you’d never heard or seen of Norman Callaway previously – as appears today on the website of  – THE [...]

May 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unfolding events cause abandonment of a plan

This is the naked truth. I rose just after 11.00pm last night – slightly earlier than normal, to be honest – in order to begin my (first) day shift. Shortly afterwards I began hearing ‘breaking news’ on Radio Five Live about the explosion(s) at the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana [...]

May 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

On the road again …

Yesterday in total I drove nearly 300 miles in the cause of taking my aged parent from the south coast to a rapidly-expanding new town north of Oxford for a family lunch, back again, and then onwards to my home in south-west London. I’m not saying I wasn’t tired at the conclusion of this epic [...]

May 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s going on

I awoke in a cold sweat last night after having a nightmare. Or possibly it was after realising that I hadn’t been having a nightmare at all but that in fact everything I had been ‘experiencing’ was actually true. It had to be one or the other. ‘Alternative facts’ and ‘Fake news’ [...]

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

A whole new world of possibilities

Overnight, as I was nodding off at about 8.45pm whilst listening to a Radio Five Live football discussion about how well Newcastle would  – or might likely wouldn’t – do next season in the Premier League … or possibly as I was waking up again at about 11.45pm, a bit earlier than [...]

May 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voyage half-way through?

A snapshot of Thursday 18th May 2017. Just another General Election campaign day: another manifesto; several carefully ‘stage-managed’ appearances in front of the media; hundreds of journalists searching in vain for an Election-related story remotely interesting to them and indeed their [...]

May 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you just have to give credit

Yesterday, despite the attractions of the sunny weather on the south coast, I strapped myself in and watched the European Rugby Champions Cup Final (kick-off 5.00pm at Murrayfield) ‘live’ on BT Sport from end to end. It was won for the second year running by Saracens, this time by the margin of [...]

May 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

First of the season

They say that simple things please simple minds and maybe that is true. Yesterday, in a party of six, I set off on board a motor launch somewhere along the south coast of England for our first outing of 2017. The co-owners of the boat always refuse to have it put it in the water before mid-May on [...]

May 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

An expedition into town

Yesterday I went on my first trip to central London in about five months for a lunch. Courtesy of my old age pensioners’ free whatever-it’s-called travel card I travelled by rail to Waterloo and thence by the Northern Line to Tottenham Court Road, scene of one of my former working haunts. The [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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