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Waiting for God-knows

What is it with utility contractors and call-outs? One of the most frustrating aspects of modern life is having something go wrong in your home which necessitates the call out of an engineer. Take a hypothetical example which actually happened to me this week. Suddenly one day, about a month ago, [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Complicated European issues

Yesterday I watched a Channel Four interview with an Italian member of an UN (or equivalent) human rights organisation complaining that EU countries were not doing enough to take refugees risking their lives fleeing from Syria/Libya or wherever to get to Europe and a new life. He didn’t mention [...]

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Has it really come to this?

Having been personally genetically programmed to have no interest in sport whatsoever, today I’m straying into murky waters – but that’s one of the joys of being a Rust contributor. When I fired up my computer today, I was bombarded by sporting headlines in the media. Let’s see: The [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s more complicated than you think

About every six or seven years my brother runs a musical survey which he sends out to all his pals – and indeed, via that constituency, accepts responses from anyone else (e.g. family members, friends, acquaintances) that they make aware of its existence. The survey has a very simple structure [...]

June 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Standing up and being counted

Today the media is featuring reports upon a scientific study commissioned by Pubic Health England and the Active Working Community Interest Company, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which recommends that office workers should spend two hours – and preferably four – on their [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of cutting back

Running a national economy is no simple matter – I couldn’t do it. The 2010-2015 Coalition and new Tory governments have made great mileage out of ‘getting our finances in order’ (specifically trying to balance the books by a combination of reducing spending and encouraging economic growth) [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pretty vacant, really

Yesterday a young England team beat the Barbarians at Twickenham by the embarrassing margin of 73-12 in front of a crowd of barely 30,000. As a contest it was little more than a training run-out. Danny Cipriani deservedly won the man-of-the-match award for kicking 11 out of 11 and in all scoring [...]

June 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

You can’t always get what you want

Yesterday at Twickenham Stadium Saracens defeated Bath 28-16 to win rugby’s Premiership. It was not the result that romantics like me were hoping for but – fair play to the victors – they ran out to a 25-3 lead by half time and dug deep to retain control after Bath’s second half efforts [...]

May 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to win

Last night Worcester Warriors drew 30-30 to win rugby’s Championship (59-58 on aggregate over two matches, home and away) and gain promotion to the Premiership. I have only read reports of the game, in which Bristol led 30-16 with ten minutes to go to the final whistle, but by all accounts it was [...]

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on

My father is nearly ninety and in the last three years has been declining physically and, less obviously, mentally also. He started having trouble with his legs about five years ago, when he began lifting and putting down his leg foot in a strange ‘flapping’ manner that gradually became more [...]

May 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

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