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Charity begins at home

Yesterday, whilst I was continuing my four-day stay in the country, my host (an elderly relative) suddenly announced that he had decided to attend a service at his local church – thereby resuming his regular Sunday routine after a gap of about four months. Long ago he stopped going to the Matins [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign of the times

In my capacity as a Rust-er observing life as it is lived in the 21st Century I sometimes alight upon an item on the internet that amuses or causes pause for thought. My grandmother, who died in 1977, held views that no doubt reflected the attitudes of her time. One of them was that men who grew [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

All’s well that ends well

I spent yesterday at the coast with my aged father. It began inauspiciously with two expeditionary failures. The first was a drive to the local town’s theatre – when we arrived there at 0915 hours we learned for the first time that its box office does not open until 1000 hours and we [...]

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

And so the world keep turning

In the world of politics, statesmanship and ‘the way things are’ two developments struck me yesterday as highlighting some of the eternal complexities that those operating power, or aspiring to do so, face in the modern world. Firstly, on the final day of its autumn conference, the British [...]

October 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s the same old song

I was walking along the seafront at Brighton yesterday. At the point by the pier where normally street theatre types are to be found I saw a curious collection of straggly bearded scruffs whom I assumed to be geography teachers attending a druid convention. I discovered they’re old new Labour [...]

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Happy times are here again!

I particularly enjoy the autumn political parties’ conference season because of the opportunity it provides to watch each of them preaching to the converted and supposedly seeking to reach out to the wider British public. Quite how the media still treats the Lib-Dems as a serious political party [...]

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well it’s game on now

It is the lot of all those who seek employment as specialist correspondents and/or venture into sports punditry to steer a tricky course between making bold predictions that subsequently fail spectacularly to come to pass; being wise after an event when previously they had been quite the opposite; [...]

September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to Blighty

Yesterday I and three family members, one a cousin who has lived in North America for the past forty years, returned to Blighty after a four-day tour of WW1 battlefields and cemeteries for which our guide was fellow Ruster Henry Elkins. The trip served us well on two counts – firstly, the [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Now I can believe anything

A watershed has been reached – the 2015 Rugby World Cup has finally ‘arrived’ in terms of becoming fixed in the nation’s consciousness. Yesterday I visited the residential home in which my father resides. He seemed, as usual, on pretty good form and at 2.30pm – after lunch – we sat down [...]

September 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Party time

Yesterday I had my annual bash for locals. This is my third such social since I moved to the coast. I come from a sociable family and all my life recall parties – dinner and cocktail – given by my mother a highly competent hostess. I try to emulate her by getting the basics right of [...]

September 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

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