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Goodbye, cruel world!

Give me strength! The vagaries of modern technology get occasional mentions on this organ but I’m seemingly under near-constant attack at the moment. Within the pages of the glossy supplements and technology magazine programmes we learn about the coming joys of artificial intelligence – robot [...]

March 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Turning back time (not)

I didn’t watch yesterday England’s 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania yesterday because I was on my way to the gym and wasn’t that interested. Call me old-fashioned in this era when FIFA want 128 or something nations to play in the World Cup Finals but, for me, in prospect any England [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Finally – an oasis after an ocean of desert sand

Saturday 25th March 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 18 – Harlequins v Newcastle Falcons at the Stoop, kick-off 3.00pm: Result: Harlequins 53 Newcastle Falcons 17: Harlequins 5 league points (1 bonus for scoring 4 tries), now 6th in the table on 47 points, 1 behind Bath who play Saracens away today [...]

March 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with the past

My first father-in-law had an abiding hatred of the Japanese borne of his WW2 experiences. It was perhaps understandable. He has signed up at its outset, got shipped out to bolster the defence of Singapore about a fortnight before the British surrender and spent the rest of the War as a Japanese [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

Evolve or die. Stuff happens. In the race of sporting life there are always winners and losers. You must constantly change and develop. An ambition to stay the same is actually one to keep going backwards. We have addressed such sporting issues on the Rust with perception and regularity over the [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here we go again (or do we?)

To be honest with you I physically watched only about 2 minutes’ worth of this week’s England ‘friendly’ match football 0-1 loss against Germany in Dortmund and even this was not for a sporting reason. Having spent the bulk of the afternoon glued to the box absorbing the [...]

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

A reunion lunch and afterwards

Yesterday I had lunch with Bill, one of my old golfing partners, whom I hadn’t seen for about four years. The parting of the ways was originally prompted by a lunch at which our group of four regulars sat down and took a decision to give up our club memberships simultaneously. We had concluded [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of changing one’s car

When you get to my age the years tend to fade to blancmange – you could ask me in which year between about 1997 and 2009 anything notable in my past happened and in all honesty I’d be guessing and probably have about a one in six chance of getting it right – so when I say I bought my current [...]

March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Test match worthy of the name

For those Rust readers who watched it – perhaps ‘because they were there’, or on TV (whether in company, or just with family sitting at home) – there is no need this morning to report upon the detail of yesterday’s 13-9 Ireland victory over England in the Six Nations [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

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