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In these uncertain times – I’ve just finished reading a scaremongering article on a newspaper website suggesting that climate change will have made the world unfit for human existence by 2050 – those of us who have reached retirement age, or indeed by choice and/or force of circumstance have [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

It entirely depends where you’re coming from

As I type I’m sitting at my computer in the small hours with the BBC television coverage of first of the live US presidential debates playing in the background and finding it fascinating. Sometimes my pals and others complain that my views (anti-views?) are extreme, facile or just too cynical for [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

All aboard, me hearties!

Yesterday I made my ritual annual visit to the Southampton Boat Show. I’m not really a ‘yottie’ person myself but I know a lot of people who are and I’ve slipped into the habit of meeting up with four of them every year to have a look around and catch up over a fast food and beer lunch. I [...]

September 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of self-awareness

On Saturday I attended a family wedding in the Midlands. Only it turned out when we arrived that it wasn’t actually a wedding because that had taken place at least a week beforehand.  What we had actually been invited to [billed as a ‘Ceremony and Celebration’] might best be termed a summer [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pushing a boulder up a hill

It’s well-known that two signals of old age are firstly, an entrenched belief that things were better ‘back in the day’ [what a horrible phrase!] and secondly, a tendency to repeat one’s own stories. Thus I begin my post today hoping, probably in vain, that in addressing today’s chosen [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘Bake Off’ is off, then

Two of the great things about being over the age of fifty (well, okay fifty-five) is that one can retain one’s propensity for having firm, not to say strident, opinions on areas of life and commerce in which one was once proficient and/or knowledgeable about whilst simultaneously absolving [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strange times or perhaps maybe not

It is difficult to avoid the view that we live in interesting times, but then in reality all times are ‘interesting’, irrespective of whether they appear to be hosting a bigger number of earth-shattering or iconic events that one might normally expect. Right now we’re approaching getting the [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rugby may be going the way of all sports

One of the uncomfortable home truths coming home to roost in world sport in the last five years is the extent to which the powers-that-be [and in that description I include both sports administrators generally and those club owners (in team games) and personal managers (in individual sports) who [...]

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

It does make me smile

Regular Rust readers will know that I exercised my most fundamental democratic right (some might say duty) for the first time in my life on 23rd June 2016 when I recorded my vote in favour of Brexit in the UK’s EU Referendum. To this day I remain defiant in the face of constant criticism from [...]

September 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why does it always happen to me?

Aspects of modern life that drive you nuts – part 36. Yesterday I was endeavouring to order a set of four 2017 pocket diaries from a well-known supplier for members of my family. Hitherto the annual process has worked like this: towards the end of August the current diary in question has a note [...]

September 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

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