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They say of London buses that when you need one they don’t come for ages – and, when eventually they do, several arrive in convoy. As a senior citizen, I say similarly damn this internet thing, whose most annoying aspect is almost the reverse. When you read something of note somewhere on a [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Getting out for some fresh air

Saturday 5th November: Anglo-Welsh Cup Round 1: Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs at the Stoop, kick-off 5.30pm: result – Harlequins 29 – Exeter Chiefs 15. By way of introduction for the benefit of those who may have little or no interest in rugby union or – hard as this may be for the rest of us to [...]

November 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just a thought

A fascinating aspect of what, for want of a better terms I shall call ‘major crises’ (whether they be over something cooked for an important dinner party at home that goes wrong, your local football team losing four games on the bounce, right through to national political impasses or even US [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Upon receiving a short sharp shock

Yesterday evening, on the BBC television’s Six O’Clock News, I caught a report upon some new findings by medical researchers on the effects of smoking upon the human body. It was uncompromising, stark, direct and blunt and – for this viewer – a bit of ‘sit up and take notice’ moment. I [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make them up

Please forgive me, but I must share with Rust readers these two examples that I have copied from a piece appearing on the Daily Mail website today on the subject of embarrassing and/or funny text exchanges between parents and children, posted on the internet almost exclusively by the latter. There [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things never change – or should they?

There’s a new survey out that apparently concluded that nobody above a certain age – the beginning of one’s sixth decade – should ever wear a pair of jeans. See here for a piece on this in – THE GUARDIAN Confession time. I’m writing today as someone who lives by the Bob Dylan lyric [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day 2

This week I went back for a final (‘signing off’) appointment with one of the team that did my hip replacement surgery three and a half months ago. It was relatively uneventful largely because, having pitched up for a previous appointment early in September, I had learned my lessons as regards [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Curate’s eggs rarely satisfy

Saturday 29th October 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 7: Harlequins v Worcester Warriors at the Stoop. Result: Harlequins 36 (5 league points including 1 bonus for scoring 4 tries) Worcester Warriors 14 (0 league points). When you think about it I should imagine that there are probably as many [...]

October 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s grim up north

When like me you don’t get out much and driving to Worcester by road seems the equivalent of crossing the Atlantic but in fact only takes about three and a half hours (to four) hours, it is a fact of life that over the course of a couple of decades one can acquire a pretty warped sense of [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cleared for take-off

There was a great deal of media excitement yesterday over the Government’s announcement that it favoured the creation of a third runway at Heathrow over a similar at either Gatwick or Stansted … or indeed any other solution. Reporters were sent to the perimeter fences to stand for up to ten [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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