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Waiting for God-knows

What is it with utility contractors and call-outs? One of the most frustrating aspects of modern life is having something go wrong in your home which necessitates the call out of an engineer. Take a hypothetical example which actually happened to me this week. Suddenly one day, about a month ago, [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Having your cake and eating it

I’m conscious that I might well be barking up the wrong tree in commenting upon this issue but overnight I spent a period up to 0100 hours this morning listening to Radio Five Live. One of the topics of the moment was the ‘gay cakes’ discrimination case in Northern Ireland, in which (as I [...]

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

A frustrating day

It’s very tough for us oldies who have gone from total ignorance to Word for Windows overnight. Like many I suspect I use 10% of the capacity and potential of my mobile, iPad and laptop all Apple-made projects. My logic is that at least there would be a synchronised system between the three. [...]

April 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to good old Blighty

Yesterday I returned to the UK and almost immediately wished that I could have turned on my heel and booked myself a one-way ticket back to Portugal. THE FLIGHT By chance I had booked a seat less than ten rows back on the right hand side from the front of my budget airline flight. When I [...]

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, whaddya know?

I’m now in my second day of having my laptop back from the computer repair shop around the corner. I do promise you that little would have given me more pleasure this morning than to have no reason to blog any further about my ‘screen cleaning’ incident of Saturday and its aftermath. Sadly, I [...]

January 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Matter of Choice

Even though we are bombarded by emails to buy from a company once you have purchased from them on line, there is still something satisfying about a chance personal acquisition. This happen to me twice over the past 6 months. I  was walking to my hotel in Welbeck Street from Oxford Street some [...]

January 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Raging against the modern world – particularly modern technology – seems to be coming a way of life for your truly. My previous venture onto the pages of the National Rust was all to do with the practice of organisations (both commercial and otherwise) telephoning individuals out of the [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

In the Apple Store

I belong to the generation that went from no knowledge to Word for Windows overnight and, like many a writer on the Rust, confused by it all. I accept that my p/a Polly can dance over the keyboard effortlessly producing documents, images etc. but when my six year old Godson can work the handset on [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Trousers round my ankles again …

The world’s a tough enough place anyway, but of course the mass market for smartphones, social media and ‘keeping in touch’ 24/7 provides an easy breeding ground for all kinds of fraudulent behaviour. I like to think I’m pretty suspicious – I regularly put the phone down on anyone trying [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Greetings from festive land!

I hope you and yours are about to have a terrific festive period, enjoy your reunions with your friends, families and loved ones, eat and drink far too much, fall asleep after your lunch – or main – meal and generally have a good time. Yesterday (Christmas Eve) my traditional ritual of [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

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