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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

The passing of Time

You might regard this as hypocritical or contradictory, but as someone who claims he lacks personal vanity, as I get older I find that my willingness to attend reunions – be they of school old boys, former work colleagues, or the usual round of funerals, wakes and thanksgiving services – [...]

December 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used ter be

This is my sixty-fifth Christmas and one thing I’ve noticed recently is that either my computer keyboard needs a new battery – that was my first assumption some eight months when I first noticed the phenomenon, since when I’ve changed the batteries twice – or my ability at two-fingered [...]

December 25, 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

The secret of male attractiveness

Everyone knows the allegedly true story – recounted by the man himself on a TV chat show, if my memory serves – of the time that a middle-aged male hotel employee brought some element of room service up to footballer George Best’s room and, surveying the evidence of what had plainly been an [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make them up

Please forgive me, but I must share with Rust readers these two examples that I have copied from a piece appearing on the Daily Mail website today on the subject of embarrassing and/or funny text exchanges between parents and children, posted on the internet almost exclusively by the latter. There [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things never change – or should they?

There’s a new survey out that apparently concluded that nobody above a certain age – the beginning of one’s sixth decade – should ever wear a pair of jeans. See here for a piece on this in – THE GUARDIAN Confession time. I’m writing today as someone who lives by the Bob Dylan lyric [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Whatever you want

As a forward-looking 21st Century man I like to think that I’m pretty liberal on most matters to do with human relationships and hold a relaxed attitude towards the interests of others, even if they should differ from mine. The universe is an entity without boundaries or limits, that is, if [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaction blues

Rape is a ghastly, sickening crime and one that many surveys and studies testify may be wildly under-reported not just in the UK but around the world. However, the recent acquittal of (now) Chesterfield professional footballer Ched Evans in his re-trial continues to produce a great deal of [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A new one on me

As some who is rapidly approaching his eighth decade, I find that both instinctively and rationally (not necessarily at the same time) I am constantly adjusting my perspective on what is and is not important, relevant or worthy of my attention. There are some aspects of life that I like to think [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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