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The Balmoral Hotel

The Balmoral Hotel has an interesting history. Like many of its nature it started life as a railway hotel called the Northern British (Railway Hotel). It is still positioned right above the main station Waverley. It has a clock which runs 3 minutes late to help passengers. Forte Hotel Group [...]

July 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Goodbye Gleneagles, hello Hotel Balmoral Edinburgh

We were all sad to leave the luxurious Gleneagles. No wonder it hosts so many events. In fact the Head of Events Charlotte is the niece of a friend of Bob Tickler and when we met her she explained that security – including detailed vetting of herself – was a vital feature of putting on [...]

July 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting this and that

On the way from St Andrews to Gleneagles I asked our driver to take us to Tannadice Road Dundee which houses not one but two football stadia 200 yards apart – these being the homes, respectively, of Dundee (Dens Park) and Dundee United (Tannadice). Dundee Utd under Jim McLean in the 1980s had [...]

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Reflections on the 150th Open

I’m preparing this post some 3 hours after Cameron Smith’s victory so forgive any inaccuracies. Smith was a worthy winner in a wonderful final day – indeed Open. The story might be that it was Rory’s to lose but Smith won it well, carding a 66. Victor Novland – one of my picks [...]

July 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

Moving day

Yesterday St. Andrews showed its teeth and bit. All those predictions of the sluggers beating up a defenceless course proved as wayward as Dustin Johnson’s 17th hole pitch to the green. I took up a position in the 17th grandstand where you have a perfect view of the road hole, can see the players [...]

July 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Second Day

When it comes to the Open, I am definitely in the attendance camp. The weather conditions are integral and best appreciated if there. On the second day, it was initially so cold and wet that I stayed in my room in the morning. I did go out to the kitchen and Alan Tanner would be jealous as the [...]

July 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Haar

Whilst the gents of The Rusters were hacking round the Fairmont Course, we girls (Nancy, Alice and Daffers ) decided to explore St. Andrews and have lunch at its best restaurant Haar. The chef and owner Dean Banks from across the Tay Bay from Arbroath reached the final of Masterchef. St. Andrews [...]

July 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

The First Day

Links golf has its strengths and weaknesses. Its strength is that it constitutes a severe test of golf when the wind and rain gets up and its weakness is that randomly the draw can favour a golfer. Aside from Dustin Johnson, the big scores were made in the morning. The other talking point was the [...]

July 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Train journey to St. Andrews

John Pargiter and I have organised a 10 day trip to Scotland to see the Open, enjoy the luxury of Gleneagles and the art museums of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Alice (Mansfield), Daffers and Tom (Hollingsworth) and dear old Bob Tickler make up the Rust party. I had booked 1st class tickets to Scotland [...]

July 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Confronting the truth

One the recurring themes in the blog-posts to this organ – and indeed one of life’s ironies – is the sometimes puzzling relationship that human beings have between their own degree of self-awareness and their appreciation of how others may see them. In many respects the gap between [...]

July 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

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