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Someone needs to get a grip

Having yesterday posted to the Rust on the subject of boxing and then a broadcasting cock-up during Radio Five Live’s celebratory coverage on the 50th anniversary of England’s 1966 soccer World Cup win, I had not expected to be back against quite as soon as today. Nevertheless, I find [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Par for the course

Rust regulars will scarcely need reminding that I bow to nobody in my cynical contempt for the British Establishment and its political classes. They’re all too prepared to lecture the British public from their pompous Mount Olympus all-expenses-paid dining table about how theirs is the highest [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A cock-up that led to a fun day

After a poor beginning my yesterday tuned out to be both fruitful and enjoyable. As arranged, at 10.00am my pal Patrick pitched up to collect and take me to a business meeting an hour later. We duly presented ourselves at the office reception and, after a wait until at least ten minutes beyond our [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A mid-afternoon incident

Here’s the latest in my occasional reports from the front line of recovering from a hip replacement operation. Yesterday I had nothing more planned than a ‘slow’ day at home – this after 48 hours of ‘not doing so well’ that involved a work-related outing requiring a couple of hours [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Three steps forward and then … er … one going nowhere

By Friday afternoon this week it will have been exactly a fortnight since I had my hip replacement operation and my post today is a report upon how things have been going. This is not going to be heavy stuff – I’m nothing special in the category of those who have had hip replacements and I very [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mindless bickering, but let’s keep our eye on the ball that counts

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting somewhat fed up by the continuing war over the UK Referendum result – or perhaps I’m really referring to the amount of media coverage that it is still getting. Yes, okay, I know we’re bang-slap in the middle of the traditional media ‘silly [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

This ‘stuck record’ is finally coming to a halt, I promise …

What continues to surprise me is the degree to which, in this post-EU Referendum world, the outcome – together with its implications and the uncertainties as to what it might mean for the UK and its people – has been dominating the media. I’m referring to the Leavers’ ongoing remorse, [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Looking forward to it

You might think this is blindingly obvious, but one of the enduring and rewarding aspects of being involved in the music industry in any capacity is that you never lose your membership of the human race. What I’m trying to allude to is that it is one of the rare walks of life in which you’re [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it

Well, that’s my hip operation and hospital-stay recovery over, and now I’m back at home feeling tired, battered but also happy to be less institutionalised than I was over the weekend. My days currently consist of four bouts of taking between 3 and 6 pills at a time during my waking hours (a [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

All in a single day

Come on guys, I mean I know it’s the ‘summer season’ when there’s not much going on in the world and the media (what used to be known in the UK back in the day as ‘Fleet Street’), bored with nothing worthy to report, traditionally resorted to ridiculous tales of Miami Beach-style [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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