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You live and learn

Yesterday I went to my little tame garage man around the corner [definition: the excellent old-school mechanic who, unlike all main dealers, doesn’t charge a fortune and, if I call in extremis, will drop any/everything he’s doing to ‘sort me out’] for my car to have what amounts to its [...]

December 12, 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

Well, I suppose you live and learn …

If I sound shocked I supposed I shouldn’t be, really. Being in what I consider the final third of my life span I know that my kids evidently regard me as beyond help in terms of modern life and technology but I have always thought that some aspects of the human condition remain universal and [...]

December 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

And the weekend is still yet to begin …

Regular readers of the Rust may be able to recall my report last week about being texted by my bank at home and being asked if I’d just spent over £200 on groceries in the United States. Shortly afterwards a phone call to their customer service line revealed that there had been an apparent [...]

November 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

The internet has a lot to answer for

It occurs to me that a feature of the internet and its attendant modern social media phenomenon is that most people over the age of fifty have a difficulty to some degree or another in understanding what on earth is going on and why. I know I do. Furthermore, anyone who claims different is being [...]

November 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

I’m probably missing the point, but …

Yesterday Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt of the Metropolitan Police faced the media to issue a public apology to the world as part of an attempt to bring to an end to the ‘scandal’ of a series of undercover policemen having intimate sexual relationships with unsuspecting women [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping up with girls

A couple of weeks ago there were a number of stories in the media about a new musical – featuring choreography by Arlene Phillips – being built around the 1970s magazine for young teenage girls called Jackie. Some of you may remember it as a ‘feel good’ publication all about the latest [...]

November 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s the 21st Century after all …

We’re all products of our own age, or perhaps that should be ‘… of our own lives between the ages of 18 and 24’? I like to think that I’m a liberal (with a small ‘L’) sort of a guy who embraces the proposition that we should all be able to do exactly what we want, provided of course [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to do it!

Continuing our time-honoured tradition of bringing interesting and/or significant items of public interest to readers of the Rust – well, that’s as good an excuse as any – this morning I thought I would provide a link to this vitally-important article that appears today on the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

How things worked out

For family reasons I had my son Barry staying with me over the weekend which was a rewarding experience as these days he lives abroad, often totally out of contact, and only makes two or three brief visits a year to these shores. By most standards he had a tough time of it as a kid. He was/is badly [...]

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

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