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Hip-(H)op

At about your breakfast time this morning I shall be driven by my daughter to a hospital in southern England in order to prepare for my long-anticipated hip replacement operation. It was about two-and-threequarter years ago now that, whilst temporarily and deliberately playing golf at high speed in [...]

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Better check it out?

One of the difficulties of the ageing process is assessing whether one has a serious ailment or a transient meaningless pain. Recently I noted a sharpish intermittent pain above the heart. Was this the start of a coronary or nothing of consequence?  Had a life of rich food clogging up the arteries [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A brush with the medical profession

Currently billeted with my 90 year-old father at the coast, I was out yesterday afternoon and returning to base when I was called from his house by She Who Must Be Obeyed (‘SWMBO’). Where was I? As it happens, I was just passing the church – less than half a mile away and counting. Well, [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A questionable state of mind

Yesterday I continued my new fitness/dietary regime by going to the gym for the second day running. Hard-earned experience has taught me to avoid all diet fads and theories – fibres, carbs, good and bad types of fat, protein must be eaten, protein mustn’t be eaten, fruit or vegetable shakes, [...]

June 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another staging post is reached

This week, some two years and seven months after suffering what appears to have been a self-inflicted catastrophic onset of osteoarthritis in my hip whilst playing golf, I went for a pre-op assessment in advance of my date with the knife for a hip replacement in July. By ‘self-inflicted’ I mean [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coping with things

Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well somebody’s gotta do it …

I don’t know why, particularly – but this piece by Adam Sherwin, spotted today on the website of The Independent, caught my eye today and I thought I’d share it with fellow Rust readers as we chart the passage of time both in the world and our own personal lives: See here – [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Forest Mere

I spent yesterday at Forest Mere with Bob. I have stayed at and written about such places. They started as essentially high-end residential weight watchers where those who are and drank too much in those  heady reckless days ( and nights !!!!) of excess of which I was a fully paid up member took [...]

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Institutionalised.

It’s the second day and I feel fully institutionalised. Not that the stay has been free of problems as you will read. Breakfast is a buffet of healthy options of cereals and fruit or hot dishes from the menu and maintained the high standard of cuisine. I continue to be amazed that working [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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