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It’s one or the other

It’s no secret that contributors this particular media organ tend to reflect, describe or report upon events and occurrences – if not modern life itself – from the perspective of people who are rather older than “that the average bear” (as Yogi Bear might have said, not that many [...]

May 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to the tee

As the PGA tournament began at Wentworth yesterday two other golfers continued their attempts to return to the fray. Whilst Tiger Woods wisely announced his intention to take his time following his latest back surgery, in scorchingly hot conditions I took another step on the road back to the top [...]

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of getting used to it

The Rust’s go-to readership demographic rapidly becoming polarised around ‘senior citizenship’ status, it is perhaps only natural that occasionally we concentrate upon subjects and obsessions that tend to occupy us oldies. Today I noticed a report by Ben Spencer, medical correspondent of the [...]

May 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

The mince-grinder of sporting success

The English Premiership season is drawing to its play-off stage and, appropriately perhaps, the one thing that can be said for those clubs involved [Wasps, Exeter Chiefs Saracens and Leicester Tigers] is that – over the course of the competition – there can be no dispute that the best four are [...]

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

A high-achiever and natural communicator

This is either going to be a ‘first’ for the Rust … or a complete waste of time. I say that with a degree of confidence because, as a ‘Gold Star’ winning technophobe, I have not the faintest idea as to whether what I am about to attempt will work … Let me [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health and relationships

It’s an open secret that the editorial board of the Rust rarely meets in person, conducting as it does most of its business via the modern technological marvel of the internet. However, it is also metaphorically true that – at our editorial ‘gatherings’ over the ether – nothing invites [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Walking back to happiness (as Helen Shapiro once sang)

At the beginning of the year – approaching six months after my hip replacement operation, the point at which medical savvy had it that someone in my position should ordinarily be ‘back to normal’ – I made a commitment to both my regular Rust readers that I would provide updates from [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

A guilty pleasure that sometimes delivers the goods

In liberal circles (with a small ‘L’) and among those of us who regard it as no more than a right-wing/middle class version of the Red-top tabloid British rags, the Daily Mail had a reputation – to adapt Prince Philip’s famous dismissal of the Daily Express – as [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from*

(* Musically-inclined Rust readers may be familiar with the above lyric line from Not Dark Yet off 1997’s Time Out Of Mind, one of my all-time Bob Dylan favourite albums). Today I thought I’d begin my offering by sharing with my readers a snap of Perkins, the male pheasant who over the [...]

April 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of changing one’s car

When you get to my age the years tend to fade to blancmange – you could ask me in which year between about 1997 and 2009 anything notable in my past happened and in all honesty I’d be guessing and probably have about a one in six chance of getting it right – so when I say I bought my current [...]

March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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