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On my tour of newspaper websites this morning I alighted upon this report of ITV’s supposed ‘switch off’ stunt designed to encourage its viewers to go outside and take some exercise. It seems that it did not quite have the desired effect with some ITV viewers – see here – THE INDEPENDENT [...]

September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Knuckling down to it

With apologies to those who have not been following my progress since having a full right hip replacement in July, and (now I think of it) probably also to those who have, I return again to my chosen subject rather more swiftly than I might otherwise have done for the simple reason that on Bank [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

That crystal ball thing

It’s now only four days and counting down until rugby union’s 2016/2017 Aviva Premiership season begins and so those of us who are occasionally moved to comment or report upon it have begun sharpening our pencils and making our preparatory notes. Although rugby is still basking in the warm glow [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Something that didn’t smell quite right

Yesterday evening I made a journey into south-west London in order to have the latest in a lengthy line of ‘swift and cheerful’ catch-up early evening meals with my daughter at a local version of a well-known pizza chain establishment. Normally I bomb up to her place in Oxfordshire where she [...]

August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stuck in the middle

This weekend I am down at the coast and trying to keep to a routine of doing my new, more strenuous, physio exercises. Now six weeks out from my hip operation (the point at which, anecdotally, most ‘hippers’ are told they should be fit enough to return to work) I am still some way behind where [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

An incident in a supermarket

A true story. Yesterday, shortly before 6.00pm, I set off to drive into my local town in order to buy some food provisions that (I had been informed) were absolutely essential if I wished to enjoy the full majesty of my much-anticipated evening meal. My shop of choice for this expedition was [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Still possessing the urge and the protective cup

It wasn’t long after I joined the Rust that I received my first ticking off from the editor during an editorial meeting. He had just delivered a stirring oration upon the principles upon which the website had supposedly been founded, i.e. giving those past the first flush of youth the opportunity [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time

Yesterday I popped over to spend a couple of hours with my old friend Patrick in order to work upon our latest pet project. Before we got down to business, in catching up upon each other’s news, I mentioned in passing that a couple of days previously my younger brother had told me that one of his [...]

August 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Certainty is all, whatever it is

Today I wish to begin with a disclaimer and/or warning/explanation. As a contributor to this august organ, I do not regard myself as being under any obligation to be balanced, ‘modern’ in outlook, PC-correct or indeed pay lip service (or more) to any notion of fairness, equality or positive [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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