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RUST IN-DEPTH COVERAGE: THE ELECTION RESULT

By tradition I catch one thumping cold (or is it bout of ‘flu?) somewhere between October and April. This manifests itself in a gradual shut-down of all bodily organs, a streaming nose, watering eyes, regular sessions of uncontrollable Whooping Cough-wheezing and ‘serious’ sneezing – by [...]

May 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Every time is different

Last night I reached home after very nearly 48 hours ‘before the mast’, which in this instance in my case meant touring northern France and Belgium with my brother and a small party of virgin – and I use that world advisedly – tourists of the battlefields and Commonwealth War Grave [...]

May 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Admitting the truth

Yesterday I duly completed my second consecutive day of rescue boat duties and learned something sobering about myself. In common with most members of the human race, I am self-effacing enough not to want to offend or bother anybody and would simply like to conduct my life on the basis that I try [...]

May 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

It was pretty obvious, wasn’t it? (It always is) …

In the scheme of things, I was an avid fan of boxing in my youth. I regularly watched boxing bouts on the box, I went to big promotions by Mickey Duff, Jarvis Astaire and Frank Warren in and around London and – with some pals of like mind – I ran a small-circulation magazine devoted to [...]

May 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s gotta do it

When I was at school, most chaps worth their salt were sport-obsessed – following the fortunes of individuals and/or club, county or international teams – if not also participating themselves at whatever level their talents justified. Within the ‘participating’ subset, at my rather [...]

May 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Question Time verdict

  At some point around the early evening BBC1 6 O’ Clock News yesterday, the viewing public was presented with a between-programmes trailer about Car Share, the new Peter Kaye sit-com, whose opening episode I had earlier chosen to watch on ‘play-back’ (shortly after breakfast) having [...]

May 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Please pardon me – as a Scot, woman and occasional Rust correspondent – for unburdening myself twice in three days, but today I have been moved to do so by an ‘exclusive’ article by John Westerby that appears on the back page of The Times (continued inside) on the vexed subject of the [...]

April 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

For those in peril on the sea

Let me declare an interest at the outset. I have a personal interest in sailing through my family and specifically my son Barry, who earns his crust as a yacht skipper.  Through this, I have a keen sense of the joys, but also the dangers, of ocean sailing. In common with all members of his [...]

April 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Knocking something out

For reasons which need not concern my readers, I have hit the ground running this week because – due to recent events and indeed those to come next month – I have just four days to accomplish a great deal. On Monday I opened proceedings by making a list of the things that I needed to do – [...]

April 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

English rugby at the crossroads

Whether we like the consequences or not – given that from time to time there’s a natural tendency in all of us to indulge in nostalgia – deep down most of us acknowledge that, for good or ill, human society is involved in a headlong rush to the future. In such circumstances ‘Stop the [...]

April 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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