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The passing of time

I guess it was about the age of sixty that I finally ‘grew up’ and deliberately decided to embrace old age. It seemed a sensible move when the alternative was to become an embarrassment to myself – i.e. by my ever-decreasingly successful attempts to try to hold my paunch in; fighting a losing [...]

October 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Card troubles

It’s a rare occasion when one makes the BBC 6 O’ Clock television news, as I did last night. Or think I may have done. Here’s a link to the report concerned – as covered on the website of the – DAILY MAIL Yesterday late morning, as is my fate on a Friday, I was sent out to purchase the [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

All aboard, me hearties!

Yesterday I made my ritual annual visit to the Southampton Boat Show. I’m not really a ‘yottie’ person myself but I know a lot of people who are and I’ve slipped into the habit of meeting up with four of them every year to have a look around and catch up over a fast food and beer lunch. I [...]

September 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why does it always happen to me?

Aspects of modern life that drive you nuts – part 36. Yesterday I was endeavouring to order a set of four 2017 pocket diaries from a well-known supplier for members of my family. Hitherto the annual process has worked like this: towards the end of August the current diary in question has a note [...]

September 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Banking nightmare

Yesterday in the early afternoon when I normally take a nap I thought I would see what was in my current account after a cash withdrawal. I saw a payment to John Lewis on line which I could not recall. I thought it may have been a late reference to an  earlier payment as, like many on the Rust, I [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go again

As anyone of a certain seniority will testify, modern life is constantly evolving – sometimes for the better, sometime not so – and wrestling with it all is part of the human condition. At my stage of life I’m always on red alert to avoid being pigeon-holed as a dog-in-the-manger-style moaner [...]

July 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Feeling good about giving stuff up

Thinking back now, I think it was about January 2009 – not long after my fifty-seventh birthday – that I stopped worrying about modern technology. Or as the young of today might more accurately put it, finally gave up, let go, and stopped trying to keep up with it. The vehicle involved in [...]

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

More internet exasperation

On my return from Cornwall I received a letter from the Single Discount Review Team of my local council querying my single occupation. I will admit to the odd staying guest but as far as I was aware the only two occupants were and are myself and my cat. I put this in the Polly Pile for her to deal [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Resolution

Readers might be surprised that in a day of upheaval with myriad of challenges and maximum turbulence I should be writing on the ongoing problems of my tv reception but I don’t think I can add anything useful to the debate except it may not be over. Ireland and Denmark had second referenda on [...]

June 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Exasperation

One of the issues we often address on the Rust is the interference of the Internet and automatic voice response into customer relations. Yesterday I got no Sky signal which I attributed to the adverse weather. In such moments I fiddle with the cables loosely referred to as rebooting which normally [...]

June 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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