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Last week I met up with a lady of my regular acquaintance – a great lover of animals, especially dogs, almost to the point where she prefers them to humans – who in passing remarked that it was now over a month since she had to take the second of her pooches to the vet to have him put down. [...]

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Canter in the wind

Saturday 5th December 2015 – The Stoop – Harlequins 38 London Irish 7. Make no mistake about it, this was a Grade A Premiership rout played out in front of RFU CEO Ian Ritchie and new England head coach Eddie Jones sitting in the stands. The Australian will have liked what he saw as regards the [...]

December 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting out what you put in

After a period during which my arthritic hip and engagements diary have together conspired to prevent me having the time or indeed inclination to maintain my fitness campaign, I returned to the fray (and the gym) last week. It has been a bit of a ‘curate’s egg’ of a start … In the build-up [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dear old pals

Yesterday I enjoyed the company of three old pals, two of whom I know from university and one from school. As Dr Johnson so rightly observed “As you go,through life the only thing you cannot obtain is an old friend” yet such friendships fall by the wayside through lack of regular [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Enough to drive you nuts

If you asked me to sit down and produce a list of the things that can potentially annoy me about the modern world, or that have annoyed me all my life (I don’t wish to blame everything on the 21st Century), then contractors, workmen or even private postal delivery men would be right at the top [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

To bomb or not to bomb

I don’t know about you, but the funny thing is the more I consider the Government’s desire to join the supposed ‘coalition of the willing’ to bomb ISIS into oblivion in Syria the more I think it’s a fifty-fifty call at best. The core of my continued dithering is my concern over the [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

So far so good (possibly)

Sandy Park, Saturday 28th November – Aviva Premiership Round 5 – Exeter Chiefs 26 [4 league points for a win] Harlequins 25 [2 bonus points, one for ending within 7 points, one for scoring four tries]. We like coming from slightly left field on the Rust but I would like it to be known that [...]

November 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

And the weekend is still yet to begin …

Regular readers of the Rust may be able to recall my report last week about being texted by my bank at home and being asked if I’d just spent over £200 on groceries in the United States. Shortly afterwards a phone call to their customer service line revealed that there had been an apparent [...]

November 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s a hard one, innit?

Yesterday I was out-and-about and only caught snatches of David Cameron’s statement on the subject of extending the UK’s current bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq to Syria, either ‘live’ or subsequently on news/current affairs programmes. I’m neither a hawk nor a peacenik by inclination but [...]

November 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubled times

It gives me no pleasure at all that my subject today is sport as it relates to integrity and morality but the spate of recent media revelations has caused me to question some of the fundamentals of human life – it is really that important. From my earliest memories of learning things at my [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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