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Yesterday  I met up with an old pal for a catch-up over a coffee at the Westbury Hotel. He is one of those people that is well informed on almost every area but always manages to shed new light on a topic in a thought provoking way. Thus, when we discussed modern footballers, he made the point [...]

December 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Arrival in Palma

Yesterday I flew from Gatwick North Terminal on the 0710 hours Easyjet flight to Palma Mallorca to spend a couple of days with my son Barry who lives and works in the marine industry on the island. The outward journey was unremarkable save for a bout of sneezing that I suffered about 45 minutes [...]

November 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Why does it ALWAYS happen to me?

What did I tell you? This morning I walked into my local high street in order to get some cash from a ‘hole in the wall’ outside my branch of Nat West Bank shortly before 9.00am. This accomplished, I was walking back home when I passed the M & S store. Remembering that I had run out [...]

November 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Glad that day is over

I would like to think through no fault of my own yesterday I had something of a frustrating day. Firstly, my fitness campaign has been going to pot recently. A fortnight ago I began my week weighing 12 stone 8 pounds – this down from 13 stone 12.2 pounds at the beginning of January – but over [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

A trying day

Yesterday I had a meeting with the editor of The Rust as he wanted me to contribute a regular article on business. Apparently my contribution to the article on alternative investments was well received. I duly met Richard Bolton at my local yacht club. I am no yottie but it has a good view over the [...]

August 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is the future electric?

As an old geezer, I like to swing back and forth between being ‘up with the latest technological advances’ and the direct opposite. It so happens that I was looking through a recent copy of Stuff magazine the other day – it’s the monthly one whose obvious competitor is called T3 – just to [...]

August 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

They’re coming, so embrace them or miss out …

Here are two more recommended reads for Rust adherents on the general subject of the future of global sport, not that many of our demographic (including me) will know a great deal about the never-ending array of technological developments being readily embraced by the generations following ours! [...]

July 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

What it takes

Whenever I read a magazine or newspaper article, or watch a documentary programme, which profiles anyone at the top of a business, professional or a vocation, I am always intrigued to discover exactly what appears to make the subject tick. (And okay, back in the day this curiosity used to spring [...]

July 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

A small comfort perhaps, but some things never change

Here’s a modern tale. About two months ago I decided to do something about the lights in the front room of my flat. I had two issues with them: One of the lights in one of the two-knocked-through-together-now-open-plan room(s) was not working at all, and – in the other former room – [...]

June 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s all around, so get used to it!

Comment upon the process of ageing is a familiar subject on the Rust – one might say it comes with the territory – and so I hope our readers will allow me this one. It seems to me there are two basic competing themes. The first is that, on a day to day basis, human beings naturally regards [...]

January 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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