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Stepping gingerly through the minefield

The issues of nostalgia, political-correctness and modern, ‘let it all hang out’, right-on, ‘any-old-how-will-do’ latitude are – quite rightly in my view – recurring themes on the Rust and I’m not the only contributor to put forward his or her viewpoint upon them. At my age, one [...]

January 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of nap-taking

My family sometimes josh me because for the last four years or so I have grown into the habit of retiring to my bed after lunch for a post-prandial nap. The official line being broadcast to the world behind my back is that it signals another step upon my journey into old age. From my perspective it [...]

December 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting out what you put in

After a period during which my arthritic hip and engagements diary have together conspired to prevent me having the time or indeed inclination to maintain my fitness campaign, I returned to the fray (and the gym) last week. It has been a bit of a ‘curate’s egg’ of a start … In the build-up [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Passing my MOT

Yesterday I had my annual check up after which my doctor pronounced me “fit and well”. There is always the fear thet the dark skin pigmentation might be something more sinister or that the ECG should require a referral to a cardiologist “just in case”. I  like my doctor [...]

November 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another day passes

Having begun my umpteenth and latest (rather vague) ‘fitness and dietary’ regime about two weeks ago, yesterday afternoon I forced myself to go to the gymnasium for 90 minutes at about 4.30pm. I like to think I never shy of challenging myself when it comes to such matters so I hope you will [...]

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around (again)

After a slew of circumstances which seemingly justified me not going – a business trip plus various social and domestic commitments from which I could not escape all featured – yesterday I returned to my local health club for a ‘session’ for the first time in at least a month. The immediate [...]

October 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another brave new world

For the past week Sky News has been running a series of reports on the rapid and ongoing development of ‘smart’ robots, thereby prompting a discussion upon the potential threat to jobs represented by the possibility that one day there’ll barely be a reason for human beings to work at all [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Adventures in Human Being/ Gavin Francis

When I was a GP I was always amazed how little my patients understood their bodies. The odd heavy drinker had undue faith in the regenerative powers of his liver but to most you had to explain that the heart was a muscular pump. Thus Gavin Francis, a Scottish doctor, has done a service in his book [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

The nuts and bolts of sexual attraction

I believe that it was that film star Paul Newman, well-known for his marital fidelity to second wife Joanne Woodward, who first coined the immortal phrase “Why go out for a hamburger when you have a steak at home?” but recent media reports, here in the form of Christopher [...]

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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