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Hip-watch: probably about three stars out of five so far

Next Friday afternoon it will have been four weeks since I had my hip replacement operation and just two weeks until – received opinion has it – most people who’ve had the procedure are advised that they can return to work. Having made spectacular progress in the first couple of weeks as a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another thing that goes around and comes around

When you’re in your sixties and one or both parents are still alive, the chances are that they’re close to or beyond the age of 90 – and therefore, inevitably, age-related issues are to the fore. The ironic aspect is that, when people ask me about – in my case – my father, I used to take [...]

August 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

As I type this I am listening to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics as broadcast on Radio Five Live in the wee hours of a UK morning. I have certain events that I wish to watch but currently have no intention whatsoever to immerse myself in wall-to-wall Olympic-viewing. You can call me a [...]

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the beach …

Having never attended in the flesh either a major athletics championship or an Olympics – but always having instead relied upon either radio commentaries and/or television coverage of such things – I am not looking forward to Rio, whose Opening Ceremony occurs today, with any particular sense [...]

August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Par for the course

Rust regulars will scarcely need reminding that I bow to nobody in my cynical contempt for the British Establishment and its political classes. They’re all too prepared to lecture the British public from their pompous Mount Olympus all-expenses-paid dining table about how theirs is the highest [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A boxing treat

Overnight – because these things happen when you’re a senior citizen – I was wide awake (albeit lying on my back in bed) when Carl Frampton, former word super-bantamweight champion, stepped into the ring at Brookyln’s Barclay Center in New York to challenge Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

The barbecue

Last night the weather was sufficiently clement to have a barbecue. The barbecue is strange institution as the male of the species takes responsibility for the cooking though, as often as not, the woman prepares the food, the salads and clears it all away. I have been to too many barbecues where I [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

A cock-up that led to a fun day

After a poor beginning my yesterday tuned out to be both fruitful and enjoyable. As arranged, at 10.00am my pal Patrick pitched up to collect and take me to a business meeting an hour later. We duly presented ourselves at the office reception and, after a wait until at least ten minutes beyond our [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eighty not out

Some might call it lazy journalism, but they don’t understand what websites such as the Rust are about. Our primary purpose is to reflect the interests, observations, attitudes and complications of life as it is lived in the 21st Century by those who have reached broadly the age of fifty or [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A mid-afternoon incident

Here’s the latest in my occasional reports from the front line of recovering from a hip replacement operation. Yesterday I had nothing more planned than a ‘slow’ day at home – this after 48 hours of ‘not doing so well’ that involved a work-related outing requiring a couple of hours [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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