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Goodbye to an old chum

A lady of my acquaintance has endured a very tough week. She had to take her twelve year old dog to the vets yesterday to have him put down. I am a big fan of dogs – when I was young my parents had two brindle boxers in succession – but have only ever owned one in my life, a highly [...]

October 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

An out of town diversion

This week found me staying overnight in the vicinity of Oxford for a meet with a pair of girlfriends with whom I share dimming but fond memories of borrowing and yore (“Can I borrow your shoulder-wrap/blouse/brooch/high-heels/boyfriend …?). This gathering of the distaff clans inevitably [...]

October 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reheating yesterday’s left-overs

Earlier this week I reported upon Sunday’s Quins away game at Leicester Tigers (a 19-22 loss), which I watched ‘live’ on BT Sport, and therefore must half-apologise to Rust readers for returning to the subject and indeed sundry other matters. I do so as a result of reading Monday’s quality [...]

October 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

A visit to the Tigers’ den

The record will show that yesterday that Quins lost 19-22 to Leicester Tigers at Welford Road, gaining a losing bonus point and as a result now sitting at 6th in the Premiership league table. There’s a theory abroad that – broadly speaking – winning your home games and picking up the odd [...]

October 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The horns of something, maybe …

A champion of free speech/enterprise or an interfering Nanny State? Which of those two should an ideal modern, dynamic but caring government be? It’s an aspect of politics that has always fascinated me. I used to take the simplistic view that best way to characterise politics was that (in the UK) [...]

October 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life imitating art, or something …

The process of growing old is a strange phenomenon. As an oldie I sometimes frighten myself by how little I can remember about the past, not just in history generally but about what happened when in my own life. Having said that, ironically perhaps, it is also the case that simultaneously – [...]

October 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Par for the course?

One thing that has always staggered me about the world of sport is the seemingly unerring ability of its governing bodies to be incompetent and/or naïve in how they go about things. Examples that immediately spring to my mind are the FA, FIFA, UEFA, the IOC, the IAAF, the ICA (professional [...]

October 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

How things worked out

For family reasons I had my son Barry staying with me over the weekend which was a rewarding experience as these days he lives abroad, often totally out of contact, and only makes two or three brief visits a year to these shores. By most standards he had a tough time of it as a kid. He was/is badly [...]

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

And now for the main course …

Over the weekend the only match in the Rugby World Cup I saw ‘live’ in its entirety on television was Saturday night’s All Blacks’ quarter-final demotion job on France. However there is no doubt that this has been a wonderful tournament – the best RWC ever – and, by all accounts [...]

October 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting away with it

Here’s a conundrum – as a matter of fact, is public speaking an ‘art’ or ‘skill’? And, whichever the answer, is that a matter of generally-accepted definition, or just personal opinion? I ask this because I know some people who are proficient public speakers – and have attended my [...]

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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