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A la Colthard /Roast, Borough Market

‘Roast’  is in Borough Market. It is new to me and things got off to a bad start when they had no sign of the reservation which I had booked through TheFork. I knew I had booked – and indeed had confirmation – so I was less than pleased. My guest, an actress whom I have known 40 [...]

March 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Longines watch

On the occasion of our silver wedding anniversary my wife Megan presented me with a Longines watch. It has always been my favourite luxury watch marque. My late father had three. He had a cunning ruse of using his own watchmaker to service them but, when we came to have one valued, the assessor [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

When time-honoured legal principles collide with modern life

My contribution today concerns two matters relating to the laws of England and Wales that I’ve come across recently and thought I’d share with my fellow Rusters. As is my traditional practice I shall open my discourse with a disclaimer and/or perhaps that should be “declaration of (non) [...]

March 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Life is a Cabaret …

… not if you buy ticket in advance on line. A couple of months ago I bought in advance a ticket for Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre for the princely sum of £200. It starred Eddie Redmayme and the theatre was done up as the Kit Kat Club. My connection to Cabaret goes back to my childhood. The [...]

March 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

A visit to the Courtauld

Yesterday I made my second visit to the refurbished Courtauld Gallery at a cost of £57m as part of our art course. We started on the first floor – the Medieval period and early Renaissance . I’m not that moved by medieval art but our excellent tutor did explain its significance and [...]

March 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

The eye test saga (continued)

They say that a tendency amongst ancient persons like myself is the ability to recall (with impressively blinding clarity) the events of decades long past whilst simultaneously being unable to recall what they were doing just two or three days ago. Therefore, in beginning this piece by stating that [...]

March 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Noble Rot

This was my third visit to Noble Rot, this time a celebration with an old friend as our respective birthdays are a month part and last Friday was a midway point. This friend alerted me to Noble Rot whose venue at 2 Greek Street I visited many times in its previous incarnation as the Gay Hussar. [...]

March 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Modern life (viewed from the sidelines)

My offering today is relatively simple and straightforward. It concerns what I believe to be two of the many conundra of 21st Century modern living, despite the ever-more amazing scientific and technological developments that the human race continually invents and takes advantage of. I refer, [...]

March 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/English’s revisited

After a couple of iffy meals that led one diner friend to complain, I’m pleased to report normal service is restored in one of my fave restaurants – English’s. There has been a significant departure with manager Andre Pienaar returning to his native Cape Town. His place is taken by oyster [...]

February 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Whatever happened to “customer service”?

One of the banes of modern life has been the deterioration in customer service that that has bedevilled the United Kingdom over the last three decades. I don’t know who or what deserves to field most of the blame for this – sub-contracted call centres situated in all four corners of the Earth, [...]

February 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

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