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The scourge of modern life

Yesterday afternoon I arrived to stay overnight on the south coast with my 92 year old father in advance of accompanying him on a visit to a consultant at a local hospital today. He seemed on pretty good form despite not being particularly clear in our conversation about who might have visited him [...]

December 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Just another disaster to add to the list

It’s the sort of thing which only happens to old people who are out of touch – I accept that – but here’s my latest example of how the modern world and its technology have a constant ability to annoy the hell out of me. In my home I have my television service, land line and broadband all [...]

December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

If you can’t beat em, app em

A common theme of the Rust is the difficulty we oldies face in the techno society where it is assumed everyone has a smartphone and knows and wants to use it. I have mentioned in the past that the parking machines in Hove are now not coin-friendly but operated via an app. This is unfair to those [...]

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Checking things out

Purely in the cause of promoting the spread of general knowledge, public education and in case it may also be of interest to discerning Rust readers (obviously), this morning I provide a link to a piece I spotted on novel career opportunities by a lady who goes by the name of Venus O’Hara, as [...]

October 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

M & S

I had an interesting lunch with Bob Tickler in which he expanded on his theory that an investor should understand both product and service as well as the financial state of a company. We discussed Marks and Spencers, now caught up by the online retailer ASOS. As part of my brief for another [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Monday shopping nightmare

On Monday of this week I went shopping at my local well-known supermarket store. I registered that the omens were not good the moment that I drove down the driveway to the car park and spied that it was packed with cars – and so it proved. I should add here the information that (and I do not [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bottoms up!

There are professional wine experts, amateur wine experts … those who would like to be one or the other … and then there is a vast rump of people who drink wine with varying degrees of enthusiasm (and/or need) largely without pretensions, or making a song and dance about it, or even [...]

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Better get ready

Spotted on the website of The Guardian this morning – a piece by Mark Sweney on the potential (or is it very real?) threat to mainstream television broadcasters from ‘new media’ giants, see here – THE [...]

August 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Everything works fine until it doesn’t

One of the ironies of the age is that anyone of ‘a certain age’ (like me) can be found harping on about how things were in their youth – and how baffling or stupefying the modern world increasingly tends to be – and yet half the time we’re also part of it. On the Rust there’s always [...]

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Shurely not?

Over the last couple of years, I have to confess, I’ve grown a slight liking for sushi food. Before that I’d heard of it from time to time – in the 1980s my brother worked in Japan for a couple of years and developed a taste for it – but the thought of eating raw food had always rather put [...]

July 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

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