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So it’s not just me, then …

As it happens yesterday evening I popped out for a quiet drink with a couple of pals before dinner and after about half an hour by chance we found ourselves sitting within earshot of some Quins fans I’d never met before who were discussing the club’s current fortunes. Stuff inevitably happens [...]

March 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

What can you believe these days? Anything you like …

We were having an informal editorial conference the other day over a very pleasant meal in a West End restaurant when out of the blue I aired the proposition that the Rust should declare itself a Trump-free organ, at least for a six-month trial period. Well, at least I received a polite hearing. My [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

One I didn’t see or even hear

Saturday 4th March: Aviva Premiership Round 17; Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm:  Result – Gloucester 27 Harlequins 30, Gloucester 0 league points, Harlequins 5 (1 four-try bonus point). Gloucester now 9th in table on 35 points, Harlequins 7th on 42. As per this column’s avowed policy, I [...]

March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another overnight blank

Here’s a true story. My regular night-time schedule consists of going to bed about 9.00pm, partly because I’m an early to bed and early to rise sort of guy. It’s also partly because I normally sleep for between four and five hours and get up again somewhere between midnight and 2.00am to [...]

March 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not the best telly I’ve seen this week

It must be because of the forthcoming May local elections, but twice this week I’ve had the television on in the background tuned to the BBC News at Six, following by the local BBC London News, and consequently at 6.55pm, completely by chance, have caught the latest Tory and Labour party [...]

March 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

The whiff of rotting fish

For organisations such as British Cycling and Team Sky – who have both wallowed in the reflected glory of their supposed legendary attention to detail, pursuit of ‘marginal gains’ and savvy media relations all based around their avowed core principle of seeking to be a beacon of [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Caught on the hop

For some of those who worship at the altar of the monotheist religion of Saint Eddie Jones, England’s rugby coach – and I admit that for a while I was a fan teetering on the point of submitting to conversion – the England v Italy Six Nations game on Sunday may have been a sobering event. [...]

February 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

[Over to you, Frank] … “And so, the end is near … “

Friday 24th February: Aviva Premiership Round 17: Harlequins v Leicester Tigers at the Stoop, kick-off 7.45pm: Result – Harlequins 18 Leicester Tigers 27: Leicester Tigers 4 league points, Harlequins 0. Hitherto, as regular readers may have been aware, Quins were unbeaten at the home in the [...]

February 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Still going … but aren’t we all?

On Monday, having seen various positive or better newspaper arts reviews of the new Ryan Adams CD Prisoner, I went onto the Amazon website and bought myself a copy – which duly arrived yesterday. Adams and I have a little bit of history. He was originally in a band called Whiskeytown that [...]

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rubbing it in …

Yesterday I was flicking through The Times newspaper and gave myself a bit of a fright. Well, Doctor Mark Porter – who is either their medical correspondent and/or a regular columnist on medical matters – did. In a piece entitled Paternal age could be an important factor in the health of your [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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