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Losing it never gets any easier

There once was a time when, as for any sports-loving young man, school lessons for me were just an unnatural interruption between excursions to the games field. Any games field. I’m not saying I was any good at sport, but I was proficient enough to feel that my destiny was surely to be found on [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Machals

America has come in for criticism over the years as an interventionist imperialist state and Israel as the oppressive bully boy of the Middle East but it was not always thus. In 1948 with the approval of the United Nations the state of Israel was formed and promptly invaded by their Arab [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reaction to the final 2015 England Rugby World Cup squad

Yesterday’s announcement of Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup yesterday has already been extensively analysed in the media but here’s my six pennies’ worth. Let me begin by stating that, as an England supporter, I very much hope that everything which follows will [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Are they trying to wind us up?

Being a man of simple and straightforward views, I was sufficiently incensed overnight by the announcement of the latest batch of newly-created inmates of the House of Lords that I immediately determined to write about it today. Perhaps the greatest joy of sitting on the sidelines watching the [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s too late to stop now

If Life teaches us anything it is that everything around us – flesh or machine – has a built-in obsolescence, and therefore shelf-life, in terms of usefulness. Arguably, anything that does not move forwards is standing still … or indeed, potentially – depending upon the perspective you’ve [...]

August 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

A blast from the past

These days it is often considered that the word ‘genius’ [broadly defined in most dictionaries as ‘an exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability … (or perhaps exceptional skill in a particular area of activity)’] is over-used. For example, and exaggerating to make [...]

August 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The eagles have landed but (just) remain in touch

Having yesterday forsaken the drudgery of Britain for a week’s recuperation sampling the delights of the Tuscan/Umbrian border with my husband and three other couples, regular Rust readers may react with a variety of emotions to the news that I spent the early evening contemplating the novelty of [...]

August 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming to the point

Without doubt the world has always been obsessed with sex, probably because it has needed to be – why else would God or Nature have given every species (well, perhaps bar the panda if some zoologists are to be believed) such a strong desire to mate and perpetuate itself? I found myself [...]

August 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

History and character

Like many people of my vintage I conduct a futile personal campaign to hold back the ravages of Time by maintaining my membership of a local health club. To be frank, whenever I weigh the cost of doing so against the number of times I actually manage to visit said establishment, it doesn’t [...]

August 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

An outing in the Solent

Yesterday I traveled in a small party by motor cruiser to Bembridge on the north-east of the Isle of Wight, for much of the trip being let loose on the wheel in the cockpit. The conditions were overcast and mild – save for the forty minute period over lunch during which bright sunshine broke [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

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