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There’s no doubt that professional heavyweight boxing is on the up and those of us interested in the Noble Art are as pleased as anyone about the development because – echoing what they used to say in cricket back in the day (“a strong Yorkshire means a strong England”) – similar [...]

March 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

The small gap between certainty and the opposite

It’s a funny old world we live in. Yesterday I travelled by train into central London to lunch with some old mates who on the face of it have nothing more in common than a past in the sense that we all went to the same school at roughly the same time. At least that’s one way of looking at it. [...]

March 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Joni got it right

Straying for a moment from my daily brief, today I am joining other Rust columnists who recently have been detailing their brushes – and frustrations – with the modern world and how it doesn’t really work in favour of those of us beyond the first flush of youth. In the year 2020, when [...]

March 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The balance of life

Earlier this week (Monday 9th March) I alighted upon a piece by Clare Foges on page 21 of my copy of The Times commenting upon the latest developments in the coronavirus epidemic and the UK government’s official advice on self-isolation – “Remain in your home. Do not go to work, school or [...]

March 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part III)

They say that in life that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better and but yesterday I think I just about held my own – which is a laidback way of reporting that I shall be on my way back to the phone shop as soon as it opens this morning to try and discover the answer to a [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part II)

Yesterday afternoon, and probably inevitably, by 4.30pm I was back at the phone shop. Overnight in the wee hours I had set about the task of getting to grips with my new Huawei P30. I tried to establish in it my two email accounts, my preferred Apps and some new ones I was being offered, in order [...]

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Yesterday I took a step into the unfamiliar and – to me often baffling – modern world by the simple means of upgrading my mobile phone, a move that apparently came my way because I had come to the end of my current two-year contract. As any oldie will tell you, such things are always beset by [...]

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye upon some perennial favourites …

Here’s an update upon the latest media stories on two issues we feature regularly in our Rust sports coverage: CONCUSSION Iconic Wales rugby union player George North is even now undergoing concussion protocols as a result of yet another head injury he sustained in the last round of Six [...]

February 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fitness, health and phones in the modern world

I suspect this – my latest report from the front-line of sexagenarian super-fitness campaigns – will merely go to underscore the truism that ‘oldies’ have it tougher than any other generation. Okay, we baby boomers started it all – with the Yippies’ rallying call of “Never trust [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend (from the rear-view mirror)

My sporting weekend began with me deliberately ‘passing’ on the opportunity to watch both Saturday’s Six Nations rugby matches because I was engaged in a wide variety of domestic matters – a move partly inspired by my experience of finding the sport increasingly boring and mundane as the [...]

February 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

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