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Struggling in the Internet world

One of the recurrent themes in the Rust is the difficulty we experience in a increasingly Internet reliant world. Over the last few days I have had some stressful occasions caused by Internet service. The first was the printing of some travel documents. In the good old days my travel agent would [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

An okay evening I suppose

Thursday 13th October: European Challenge Cup group stage – Harlequins v Stade Francais as the Stoop, kick-off 7.45pm. Result: Harlequins 43 (five points) Stade Francais 21 (0 points). Last night’s trip to a less than 60% full Stoop (why do organisers of these competitions insist upon midweek [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Yesterday it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It says plenty about both the stature and importance of both Dylan and the Nobel Prize organisation itself that – save perhaps among some groups of literary elitist critics, pedants and those whose [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brexit confusion

Yesterday I watched the Six O’Clock News on BBC1 on which the opening story was the developing row at Prime Minister’s Question Time and elsewhere over whether Parliament should be allowed to scrutinise the Government’s strategy and/or ‘opening position’ on its Brexit negotiations  or [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s it – I’m off!

Further proof that I am being hounded by Big Brother government authorities emerged over the weekend when out of the blue I received a personal notice of yet another alleged speeding incident caught by CCTV camera in west London. On the day in question I was pootling along on my way to a wedding in [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stalemate in the wee hours

My past 24 hours was somewhat dominated by the second US presidential election (Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton) TV debate which took place from 2.00am this morning. After having a relatively quiet Sunday – reading the papers, watching the Andrew Marr Show and then then Sunday Politics, snoozing [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sometimes, despite all efforts, it comes to this

Saturday 8th October 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 6: Harlequins v Northampton Saints at the Stoop. Result: Quins 20 (4 league points) Northampton Saints 9 (0 league points). Latest league position: Harlequins 8th, Northampton Saints 9th. The above brief details will just about provide the reader [...]

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby

Last evening I went to see the relatively current movie Bridget Jones’s Baby with my thirty-something daughter. It’s not normally the kind of film that I’d go to watch and she reported that her mates and cousins have been marvelling either that a father would want to see it all, let alone [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Even Groundhog Days are different

Watching your own parent travel into old age is a strange process, a bit like looking down the list of notable people’s birthdays in the Times or the Telegraph, being surprised at how old some of the icons of your youth have become, or even marvelling that they’re still alive … and then [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sport and attrition

Sport is one of the most wonderful activities that human society has ever devised and regulated. Although I’ve being trying but struggling to identify other species capable of organising sporting contents – my presumption is that such games and leisure pastimes as animals, fish and birds [...]

October 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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