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The truth is that nothing ages you more than having kids – or is it rather that the act of having kids becomes a constant reminder of ‘tempus fugit’ as they grow up into adulthood? Whilst there’s an eternal truth in the adage that we instinctively tend to feel eighteen inside whatever our [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just another nail in the coffin …

Saturday 13th February 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 12: Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm: Gloucester 28 Harlequins 6. Regular readers of my column will know that I have been enduring having a hard time of it recently. Given Quins’ propensity to blow hot and cold – best expressed in [...]

February 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The delicate art of making a fuss

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and, since I have something of an aversion to enforced jollity – for example, the last time I recall being up to see in the New Year in was the Millennium and that shouldn’t really count as I’d actually gone to bed shortly before 8.00pm and found myself [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this (again)

When big issues are involved, whether you’re talking national/political things like an ‘In/Out’ EU Referendum or a NHS junior doctor’s dispute, it’s jolly hard for we non-participants on the side-lines to understand properly the protagonists’ respective arguments, still less the [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

I suppose you cannot fight the inevitable

One of the first things I do upon waking each day is to tour the newspaper websites in order to familiarise myself with what’s going on in the world since I last looked. Sometimes this is a fascinating exercise and sometimes, to one degree or another, it is a sobering one. Today it was a case of [...]

February 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Turning up the volume

There’s a famous scene in the 1984 spoof documentary movie This Is Spinal Tap in which a member of the band proudly shows a reporter one of their amplifiers on which the volume control (normally numbered 1 to 10) goes up to 11 – at my age I’m a bit hazy on details, but something tells me the [...]

February 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Last week I made a technological breakthrough of sorts. I bought a slow cooker. I’m a big fan of stews of any description or form and I had long suspected that a slow cooker – by which, I’d been led to believe, the deal is that you just bung the ingredients into the receptacle designed for [...]

February 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so now the wheels come off …

Saturday 6th February 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 11: Harlequins v Northampton Saints at the Stoop: result – Harlequins 23 Northampton Saints 27. Yesterday I had a near-perfect rugby day in prospect, having bought four additional tickets to the Saints game upon request for a cousin, a [...]

February 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

It all comes to this in the end

Yesterday I sent an email to my brother, five and a half years my junior, about our theoretical plans for playing golf this year and was slightly taken aback when he replied saying that he hadn’t been enjoying the game for some time and had decided to stop playing it – well, save for making a [...]

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reunion lunch

On the Rust we do not often write about the same event from different perspectives but I was at the lunch referred to by JS Bird in his post yesterday. I would like to share some anecdotes with you. Conversation turned to our fathers as two brothers present had a parent who had served in Fleet Air [...]

February 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

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