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The eyesight conundrum

Yesterday – some six months after I received a reminder from my local high street chain – I toddled along for my latest eye test, my two previous ones having been in 2014 and 2011 (as I learned minutes into my exam). Now in my mid-sixties I have had a so-so relationship with eye tests and [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rubbing it in …

Yesterday I was flicking through The Times newspaper and gave myself a bit of a fright. Well, Doctor Mark Porter – who is either their medical correspondent and/or a regular columnist on medical matters – did. In a piece entitled Paternal age could be an important factor in the health of your [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dentistry and cars

Yesterday I was in the absurd position of having to give up a day of my life in order to spend seven hours travelling to the south coast essentially to take my elderly father to a half-hour appointment at his local dentist. This state of affairs had arisen because – although we had specified to [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week Two)

And so, about a fortnight in and probably inevitably, we get to the first real hiccup in my new 2017 personal fitness regime. Last week for reasons beyond my control I had first to spend 36 hours in the country visiting family and then attend a bit of a blow-out meal where copious amounts of [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

NHS ( part two)

We do not have too many rules on the Rust but we are not encouraged to repeat the same theme two days running. However I make no apology for returning to yesterday’s topic of the alleged demise of the NHS. Yesterday I saw my private doctor for a flu jab. I very much like my doctor as he is [...]

January 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week One)

Although it has been only six days since I began my new fitness campaign, I deliberately weighed in yesterday because it was a Monday and (for me, like most people) the first day of a new week. Thirteen stone ten, which means I have lost just two pounds. To remind you of the basics – food (and [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fitness campaign starts here

We’re at that time of year again – New Year inevitably equals a looking back at our pigging out over the festive season (when we all ‘let go’ food and drink-wise because – as we intend to really sort ourselves out over the next twelve months – we may as well enjoy ourselves one [...]

January 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The purpose of it all

Please pardon the delay in me addressing this media story, but I was listening to Dotun Adebayo’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live in the early hours of this morning when I heard a segment on new research from the United States of America apparently demonstrating that sex just gets [...]

December 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why do these things always happen to me?

Yesterday I had a dentist appointment to replace a tooth cap that I had lost without even noticing it: “Perhaps you swallowed it …?” he had helpfully suggested when we met a fortnight previously for my six monthly check-up. Is it Murphy’s Law that says “If it is possible for something [...]

December 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all going crazy!

Twice every year there tends to be a disconnect between the world as it normally is and a degree of weirdness, i.e. during the August (end of summer) ‘silly season’, when not much is happening, and then the second half of December, when it’s almost a case of too much going on. It won’t have [...]

December 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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