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On the buses

Brighton is celebrated for the theatre of its street life. By the pier there is a replica of Darth Vader and other street actors and other characters happy to pose for some silver in their hat. However there is also theatrical life in a different way… on the buses. A few years ago I was impressed [...]

October 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Getting it right beats how we’d like it to be

As a columnist on the Rust I am sometimes reminded of a conversation that I had eons ago with an elderly relative on the rather broad subject of which pastimes or subjects individuals take up as hobbies, interests and/or life-long obsessions and the reasons why they do. In these days of increased [...]

October 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

more techie woes

A common gripe amongst us elderly Rusters is to be forced into the smart phone/iPad world only to find it’s not working and there is no one to call. I have spent most of this month under the incorrect assumption that I must pay the balance of an invoice by the end of it. I happened to speak to [...]

October 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sacked!

We are now well into the football sacking season with Thomas Tuchel, Bruno Lage and Stevie Gerrard early casualties. Leeds’ Jesse Marsch’s head is in the noose. In an article in yesterday’s Times their chief football writer Henry Winter identified the increasing role fans play in such [...]

October 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

The Kreuzer Sonata (2008)

This film, an erotic, psychological thriller directed by Bernard Rose, was released in 2008 but I watched it for the first time last night. It is based on the banned novel of Leo Tolstoy and in brief is about a man consumed with jealousy that his beautiful classical pianist wife is unfaithful. The [...]

October 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Frustration – a whole new level

One of the recurring themes featured on this organ is a subset of the oldies’ general complaint that Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be [© the 1960 musical by Lionel Bart], viz. that one of the most heinous iniquities inflicted upon the human race in the 21st Century is that of large – and [...]

October 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

This 1971 novel by Elizabeth Taylor – her eleventh – short-listed for the Booker Prize [images herein taken from the 2005 US-produced movie version of the same name directed by Dan Ireland with a largely-British cast list headed by Joan Plowright as Mrs Palfrey and Rupert Friend as [...]

October 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Manchester City 3 Brighton 1

Brighton have lost their last six visits to Manchester City so not even John Pargiter would have backed them yesterday. As it happened Roberto de Zerbi set up the team well with asphyxiating man to man marking. Inevitably Erling Haarland scored two first half goals making his tally this term so far [...]

October 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Aston Villa 0

The difference between this season and the previous two relegation ones are wins over our peers. The last relegation season began with a comprehensive defeat at home to Crystal Palace. Although we do not meet them until Boxing Day a much better performance and result are likely. Yesterday’s [...]

October 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Noises Off/Theatre Royal Brighton

The amazing thing about Michael Frayn’s pastiche of the British bedroom farce – Noises Off – is that it was first staged 40 years ago. Even though the genre of such Whitehall farces hardly exists (remember the long running No Sex Please We’re British) this one is still regularly [...]

October 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

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