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Turning back time (not)

I didn’t watch yesterday England’s 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania yesterday because I was on my way to the gym and wasn’t that interested. Call me old-fashioned in this era when FIFA want 128 or something nations to play in the World Cup Finals but, for me, in prospect any England [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

The French Presidential election

It looks very likely that the two front runners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will emerge as victors in the first round on April 23rd. In the polls Macron is one point ahead of Le Pen but has a considerable lead in the final round of a two way shoot out in May. Macron has arrived by default as [...]

March 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with the past

My first father-in-law had an abiding hatred of the Japanese borne of his WW2 experiences. It was perhaps understandable. He has signed up at its outset, got shipped out to bolster the defence of Singapore about a fortnight before the British surrender and spent the rest of the War as a Japanese [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

Evolve or die. Stuff happens. In the race of sporting life there are always winners and losers. You must constantly change and develop. An ambition to stay the same is actually one to keep going backwards. We have addressed such sporting issues on the Rust with perception and regularity over the [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A reunion lunch and afterwards

Yesterday I had lunch with Bill, one of my old golfing partners, whom I hadn’t seen for about four years. The parting of the ways was originally prompted by a lunch at which our group of four regulars sat down and took a decision to give up our club memberships simultaneously. We had concluded [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The eyesight conundrum

Yesterday – some six months after I received a reminder from my local high street chain – I toddled along for my latest eye test, my two previous ones having been in 2014 and 2011 (as I learned minutes into my exam). Now in my mid-sixties I have had a so-so relationship with eye tests and [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here we go!

For Northern Hemisphere fans the this year’s annual Six Nations finale on Saturday – three matches culminating in England’s attempt at securing consecutive Grand Slams and a word record 19 international victories in a row against Ireland in Dublin – is going to be a rugby [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

It all comes back to this

Having been away yesterday on family business I was denied my weekly ritual of watching Prime Minister’s Question from the comfort of my favourite armchair and consequently only learned of the Government U-turn over the Budget’s intended hike in NI contributions for the self-employed from a [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nothing much, but one of those things …

Yesterday afternoon I just happened to be visiting friends in Richmond. As I walked across the bridge I noticed groups of by-passers looking over the side. This was plainly because something of unusual interest or amusement had happened and prompted a spontaneous pedestrian version of [...]

March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stop the tartan tail wagging the dog!

Thank God that Nicola Sturgeon has crawled out from under the skirting board and declared her intention to have second referendum on Scottish independence at some point in the autumn of 2018 or spring of 2019, I say! I’m privileged to announce, after an intense morning on the telephone and [...]

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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