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Some are getting it … and others aren’t

In this day and age it should surprise nobody that the human world is largely composed of (1) generally well-meaning individuals who try to treat others as they’d like to be treated themselves and also care about those less fortunate than themselves; (2) those that through circumstances beyond [...]

March 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another day gone

It’s getting tough out here in Lockdown-land. I don’t know what it’s like where other Rusters are living in self-isolation – and don’t get me wrong, we’re all in this together – but living in solitary confinement, which by personal choice I’ve been doing these past twenty years, is [...]

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Teething problems with a new fitness campaign

As Rusters share their experiences of the Coronavirus lock-down here comes an Ingolby dispatch from the front line as I begin my latest doomed fitness campaign. Being one of the freelance Rust correspondents laid off by the publishers on Monday who received a batch of Huwaei smartphones as a [...]

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Taking things in the round

As usual I spent a large proportion of yesterday listening to the BBC’s Radio Five Live in a variety of fashions. The most enlightening of these for me personally, being an oldie, was the moment that, when out in mid-afternoon on my “one per day” permitted exercise outing, complete with my [...]

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Two days into lock-down …

It’s still early days yet, of course, but as an oldie I am gradually settling into this ‘self-isolation’ lark – that’s an attempt at a quip, by the way, this is obviously a very serious situation and one shouldn’t be flippant, but by the same token, for Pete’s sake(!), you’ve got to [...]

March 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

A walk by the sea

Yesterday I went with my friends from London for a walk by the sea. The coastal air did us good. There were were quite few others doing the same. One of my friends commented that it was the last hurrah. The problem is that the more the government tells people to isolate, the more they are inclined [...]

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another “spot” from a favourite scribe

No apologies from me for my link today. I have made no secret of firstly, my respect and admiration for Tom Peck who writes political sketch/opinion pieces for The Guardian newspaper and secondly, my conviction that we Rust columnists exist not to ‘ape’ or attempt to provide front-line [...]

March 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Battening down the hatches

Since 1st January or thereabouts [I’m choosing this at a catch-all date BCE “Before (this) Coronavirus Epidemic”], no doubt in common with many other Rusters, I’ve been doing my best to cope with a growing inner sense of combined “you couldn’t make this up”;  “where the hell did [...]

March 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

What shall we do?

The debate is no longer TV versus attendance but what either party will do in at least 6 weeks barren of sports? The question was considered at a football lunch I attended yesterday. One wag commented “”Think of the positive, Liverpool may never get the title!” It’s possible if the [...]

March 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

The small gap between certainty and the opposite

It’s a funny old world we live in. Yesterday I travelled by train into central London to lunch with some old mates who on the face of it have nothing more in common than a past in the sense that we all went to the same school at roughly the same time. At least that’s one way of looking at it. [...]

March 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

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