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Only two more to go now …

Yesterday I was unable to watch the Harlequins’ away Premiership match against Sale (a 23-25 victory). This was because, although I’ve been to see Quins play away against Sale twice before [at their old ground, a bit of an ordeal because it was in a pretty primitive state], I wasn’t in the [...]

April 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

He’s made a big mistake

Right – that does it! It’s war! Yesterday I went up to the health club again in the mid-afternoon. I looked at my ‘watch’-type thing that tells me not only the time, but also how many steps I’ve taken and calories I’ve burned off each day and it said “1613” (i.e. 4.13pm) as I [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Triumph, at last!

Yesterday, over a week after I last visited, I went to the health club in the late afternoon. Having devised a fitness plan consisting of ‘the bleedin’ obvious’ (‘Eat better and less, plus take exercise’), my failure to go to the gym for the above-mentioned length of time had been [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Confronting cataracts

Yesterday I saw a leading ophthalmologist for a final review prior to two cataract operations. Over the past couple of years I have seen a man in London of some eminence but as I have moved to the coast there are clearly practical benefits in having the procedure done locally. I was trying to sort [...]

April 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Am I going loopy?

This potentially either demonstrates the state of my humdrum little life or, alternatively, the kind of obsession that invade the minds of those who begin taking exercise regularly – but I’ve now gone beyond getting irritated by those I’ve mentioned on this website previously, viz. the [...]

April 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fitness report

I thought I’d write another post today about my arthritic hip which would include updating my National Rust readers how things are progressing with my New Year’s fitness campaign, designed in part to assist or stave off the hip’s problems and potential eventual replacement operation. For few [...]

March 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

And here’s another one …

Simply by living life we come across every aspect of it, from birth to death – and that includes all the joys, laughter, madness, frustrations, hurts, slights, triumphs, challenges and innumerable other things and situations (great and small) that affect us personally and/or cause us to reflect [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

It depends what you think is important

There is an article by Fiona Macrae featured today on the website of the Daily Mail which suggests that continuing to have sex into your eighth decade sharpens your brainpower and improves the memory – see here – OLDER SEX Normally I dismiss media pieces like this as fillers deployed off a [...]

March 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

A visit to the doctor

My late father, a private doctor and GP, was a mild non-confrontational man. Once though a young strident cousin of my mother was holding forth that private medicine was unethical in a democratic society and should be abolished. My father turned to her and said “You have as much chance of [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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