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An unhelpful survey

I found the report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph entitled Age is no barrier to an active sex life for sprightly over-80s somewhat distasteful and disappointing. According to a survey of more than 7,000 elderly people conducted by Manchester University’s School of Social Science, as part of the [...]

January 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

OK – but could do better

My latest report from the minefield of medical science and fitness regimes contains a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Earlier this week I presented myself to the nurse at my GP surgery to undergo a ‘general health test’ – something that I was first offered a couple of years ago. As I [...]

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brace yourselves!

We are told – and I have no reason to disbelieve it – that from today there are exactly 100 days to go until the 2015 General Election. Inevitably, the average punter like me gains most of his impressions about what is going on in British politics from the radio and television. I prefer the [...]

January 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holier than thou

My new fitness regime, hampered of course by my gammy hip, continues. They say man cannot live by bread alone and, since (on my new self-designed diet imposed since 1st January) bread and potatoes are banned, some of us cannot even live on that. Last night, for our evening meal, we had what I now [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Desperation alone is not enough

Last weekend – as regular readers will need no reminding – in an extraordinary game against at the Stoop in which they enjoyed 70% possession of the ball but contrived to lose 3-23, the Harlequins had also surrendered the control of their Rugby Champions Cup pool group that they had [...]

January 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, whaddya know?

I’m now in my second day of having my laptop back from the computer repair shop around the corner. I do promise you that little would have given me more pleasure this morning than to have no reason to blog any further about my ‘screen cleaning’ incident of Saturday and its aftermath. Sadly, I [...]

January 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of tournament winning

All team sports become like chess, or ‘sports manager’ fantasy computer games, when it comes to a major tournament. In terms of soccer, rugby, field hockey (you can add your own further examples) we’re talking mostly European and World Cups, or possibly – if they’re admitted to the fold [...]

January 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Doing what you can

Medical and fitness issues concern me today. It’s been about three months since my hospital consultant, having listened patiently to my long list of symptoms and ongoing discomforts in my arthritic hip, paused for a moment and cheerily responded “That’s fine then, I’ll sign [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Raging against the modern world – particularly modern technology – seems to be coming a way of life for your truly. My previous venture onto the pages of the National Rust was all to do with the practice of organisations (both commercial and otherwise) telephoning individuals out of the [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another Quins display to forget (hopefully)

There  is a small but vital margin between being a fan of a sport and being a fan of a particular team. I can watch rugby union at any level of the game from internationals downwards, including seven-a-sides, but – in the style of the well-worn example concerning a full-cooked breakfast [...]

January 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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