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Age and pills

Some might say that when a columnist has to resort to ‘linking’ Rust readers to way-out stories on the Daily Mail website that he or she has gone beyond scraping the barrel, but today I couldn’t possibly comment. According to doctors, medical specialists, friends and indeed carers, the fact [...]

November 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

This week’s sporting headlines

For the benefit of Rust readers everywhere, here are two sports stories from today’s media that caught my eye:   FORMULA ONE After the departure of Bernie Ecclestone and the purchase by Liberty Media of the Formula One juggernaut, there were always going to be changes – some might say [...]

November 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The times I live in

THE STEPPING MACHINE Last night, after yet another day spent largely in front of a computer screen (for reasons of both necessity and choice) – bar one short trip by car for a food shop – at about 5.00pm I deliberately set off to stride up to my gym for a session intended to ‘blow the [...]

October 31, 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

Another report from the exercise frontier

This is another in a sequence my occasional Rust posts reporting and commenting upon my late-life attempts (well, at 65 I don’t think I can qualify anymore as ‘middle-aged’) to improve the health-promoting aspects of my lifestyle habits via a self-devised dietary/fitness campaign. Firstly, [...]

October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The annual medical

Last week my ageing Volvo passed its MOT and yesterday was my turn to present myself at my doctor for mine. I like my doctor, whom one might describe as old school, very much. He does not spend the consultation peering into his computer like many a GP but engages in eye to eye contact listening [...]

October 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’re all in this together

One of the topics of the moment in Parliament and the media is that of old people and the issues that surround them. I’m talking about such as national pensions, at what age people become eligible for them, the ever-growing number of senior citizens in the population (due to increasing longevity [...]

October 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

What a nightmare

Like many a Ruster a good night ‘s sleep comes to me rarely. As I write this I have had 3 hours sleep, awoken and will probably get back to sleep in a couple of hours’ time. I read somewhere that 8 hours continuous sleep is a recent phenomenon and in the nineteenth century such a break [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hold the phone!

Call the quack. I’m reporting myself for a ginormous ‘senior moment’ overnight and am beginning to feel that those snivelling turncoats and junior family members who have been chipping away at my confidence and sanity by regularly telling me I need to go for a cognitive [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The power of sleep

I make no apology for beginning this post with three quotations: “Life is a sexually-transmitted disease and the mortality rate 100%” [R.D. Laing]; “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” [Ernest Hemingway]; and “Early to bed and early to rise [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

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