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Theatre review: This House (Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre)

Yesterday I joined an old pal, a man of extensive property interests, for lunch in a hotel restaurant in Chichester. He was holed up there after doing a spot of business in the morning which had seemingly gone particularly well, for as I arrived he announced that we were to be served a bottle of [...]

October 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Quinswatch: It’s grim down south

Monday 3rd October: Harlequins A v Exeter Braves in the Aviva Premiership ‘A’ League. Kick-off advertised as 7.30pm, actual 7.45pm. Result: Harlequins A 22 Exeter Braves 38. Almost by chance I visited the Harlequins official website mid-morning yesterday and noticed for the first time that the [...]

October 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch: a case of making best use of one’s time

Sunday 2nd October 2016. Aviva Premiership – Wasps v Harlequins at Coventry. Result: Wasps 47 (5 points) Harlequins 18 (0 points). Yesterday was a singular success. In weather more reminiscent of a July or August summer’s day rather than an October one, we had set up a family outing involving [...]

October 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sorted!

In these uncertain times – I’ve just finished reading a scaremongering article on a newspaper website suggesting that climate change will have made the world unfit for human existence by 2050 – those of us who have reached retirement age, or indeed by choice and/or force of circumstance have [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Working it all out

Whenever we contemplate life’s innumerable mysteries, the imaginative scope of the human brain soon reaches its outer limits and we have to resort to head-shaking wonder and quite possibly the issue of whether God exists or not and other similarly-profound matters. It is almost as if the more [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

It entirely depends where you’re coming from

As I type I’m sitting at my computer in the small hours with the BBC television coverage of first of the live US presidential debates playing in the background and finding it fascinating. Sometimes my pals and others complain that my views (anti-views?) are extreme, facile or just too cynical for [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Transparency – and smoke, fire and maybe mirrors

Regular Rust readers will be aware that on the proverbial sports desk we take a uniformly tough line on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, irrespective of their sport or game. Our robust attitude does not quite reach ‘guilty until proven innocent’ territory but – because [...]

September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Rising

Saturday 24th January 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 4. Harlequins v Saracens at the Stoop, kick-off 3.00pm. Result: Quins 17 (4 league points), Saracens 10 (1 losing bonus point). It is a fact that, from every spectator’s viewpoint, all sporting events – great or small – spring from the wider [...]

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tether-reaching

You’d think that once you’ve retired from the hurly-burly of working life you’re going to go one of two ways. If you’re the type that relies upon excitement, stimulation and the company of people, you may begin worrying that you’re going to lose out, get forgotten, lose touch and [...]

September 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Party time

Around this time of year I give a party for my neighbours and local friends. This started as flat warming three years ago. That  party went well and I thought a late garden summer party after many have returned from their holidays and the weather can be unseasonably warm would work well. Polly [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

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