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The pressure ramps up

Simon Campion-Brown is unwell. I don’t wish to over-dramatize things but Rust readers beyond a certain age may recognise this cultural reference to Jeffrey Bernard, who used to write a column entitled Low Life for The Spectator magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. This detailed his indulgent life [...]

June 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Must do better

My Bank Holiday weekend was slightly strained at times for domestic reasons, not least because I hadn’t realised that it was one, if you see what I mean. As a retired person, I still have weekdays and weekends, but they tend to all blend into one and in my book a Monday is a ‘weekday’ – end [...]

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to the tee

As the PGA tournament began at Wentworth yesterday two other golfers continued their attempts to return to the fray. Whilst Tiger Woods wisely announced his intention to take his time following his latest back surgery, in scorchingly hot conditions I took another step on the road back to the top [...]

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of getting used to it

The Rust’s go-to readership demographic rapidly becoming polarised around ‘senior citizenship’ status, it is perhaps only natural that occasionally we concentrate upon subjects and obsessions that tend to occupy us oldies. Today I noticed a report by Ben Spencer, medical correspondent of the [...]

May 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unfolding events cause abandonment of a plan

This is the naked truth. I rose just after 11.00pm last night – slightly earlier than normal, to be honest – in order to begin my (first) day shift. Shortly afterwards I began hearing ‘breaking news’ on Radio Five Live about the explosion(s) at the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana [...]

May 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

On the road again …

Yesterday in total I drove nearly 300 miles in the cause of taking my aged parent from the south coast to a rapidly-expanding new town north of Oxford for a family lunch, back again, and then onwards to my home in south-west London. I’m not saying I wasn’t tired at the conclusion of this epic [...]

May 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s going on

I awoke in a cold sweat last night after having a nightmare. Or possibly it was after realising that I hadn’t been having a nightmare at all but that in fact everything I had been ‘experiencing’ was actually true. It had to be one or the other. ‘Alternative facts’ and ‘Fake news’ [...]

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voyage half-way through?

A snapshot of Thursday 18th May 2017. Just another General Election campaign day: another manifesto; several carefully ‘stage-managed’ appearances in front of the media; hundreds of journalists searching in vain for an Election-related story remotely interesting to them and indeed their [...]

May 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

First of the season

They say that simple things please simple minds and maybe that is true. Yesterday, in a party of six, I set off on board a motor launch somewhere along the south coast of England for our first outing of 2017. The co-owners of the boat always refuse to have it put it in the water before mid-May on [...]

May 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

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