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Back in the old routine

Saturday 3rd February 2017: Anglo-Welsh Cup, final round of the group stage: Harlequins v Sale Sharks @ The Stoop, kick-off 7.45pm: Result – Harlequins 10 Sale Sharks 13: Outcome – Sale Sharks qualify for the semi-final stage (Harlequins already qualified for same but author as yet unclear [...]

February 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

A troubling case

There is no way that you could describe me as a left-winger and – in general terms, partly due to my exposure to pals or acquaintances who have had military experience, and indeed families therefore – I am a respecter of all those who have served their country in uniform. On principle I tend to [...]

February 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Holding on by the fingertips

A recurring theme of posts to this website can be filed under the heading ‘Moans About New Technology’. These tend to range from complaints about things that don’t work – or don’t work for oldies – to discourses about whether it is just a fact of life that that the modern world [...]

January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Maybe a common sense approach would work

According to my brief researches on the internet it was Oscar Wilde who originated the bon mot about life tending to imitating art (rather than the other way around) and already it’s semi-amusing to see how the American right’s flirtation with its Trump Experiment is simultaneously shaking up [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Watching it all anyway

One of the special hallmarks of this website is its editorial stance, or some might suggest lack of one. I’m reminded of it every time I consider making a contribution because it forces me to confront probably the most beneficial constraints and imperatives that any would-be scribe can operate [...]

January 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Tortoise in Town

Yesterday (Tuesday) I had cause – taking my aged father to two routine medical appointments – to visit the centre of London by car. On Monday I had paid £11.50 for my required Congestion Charge in advance and, in the wake of recent media reports that not only is the Congestion Charge generally [...]

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

The way forward

Now let’s get this straight. Donald ‘Slim Pickens’ Trump is the new President of the United States and already he’s behaving like a loose cannon, ruffling feathers everywhere, issuing executive orders destroying every aspect of the Obama legacy that appears on his radar, warning China of a [...]

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

You never quite know what you’ve got

Serendipity is a wonderful thing and today I wish to bring Rust readers the joys of a true story. I have lived in my current abode in the quiet suburbs of south-west London for over twenty years. During this period I have been in the habit of going across the road to my local newsagents shop to [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Window on the new world?

Very strange mix of thoughts and feelings yesterday as I strapped myself in to watch the Trump inauguration on Capitol Hill on BBC1 from 4.00pm UK time. My original plan had been to take exercise of some sort in the afternoon because I had been confined to my home engaged upon domestic and other [...]

January 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Interesting times

Over the last couple of years the world has endured an extraordinary succession of geo-political and national developments (one hesitates to say ‘crises’). Hold the phone a second. I was conscious just now that when I began typing the above sentence that ‘succession’ might not be the [...]

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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