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Having acknowledged that anyone begins a piece with the words ‘Don’t get me wrong, …’ runs the risk of falling foul of the quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks …’ and/or the natural cynicism that accompanies [...]

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Churchill’s funeral : a personal memory

I attended Churchill’s funeral and still have clear memories of it. My mother’s cousin and her aunt came over from Paris to pay their last respects. Every Friday my mother would shop at Ridley Road market and the king of the market was a kind man called Major Alf F. He had an obvious [...]

January 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

An unhelpful survey

I found the report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph entitled Age is no barrier to an active sex life for sprightly over-80s somewhat distasteful and disappointing. According to a survey of more than 7,000 elderly people conducted by Manchester University’s School of Social Science, as part of the [...]

January 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

OK – but could do better

My latest report from the minefield of medical science and fitness regimes contains a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Earlier this week I presented myself to the nurse at my GP surgery to undergo a ‘general health test’ – something that I was first offered a couple of years ago. As I [...]

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holier than thou

My new fitness regime, hampered of course by my gammy hip, continues. They say man cannot live by bread alone and, since (on my new self-designed diet imposed since 1st January) bread and potatoes are banned, some of us cannot even live on that. Last night, for our evening meal, we had what I now [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Raging against the modern world – particularly modern technology – seems to be coming a way of life for your truly. My previous venture onto the pages of the National Rust was all to do with the practice of organisations (both commercial and otherwise) telephoning individuals out of the [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Trousers round my ankles again …

The world’s a tough enough place anyway, but of course the mass market for smartphones, social media and ‘keeping in touch’ 24/7 provides an easy breeding ground for all kinds of fraudulent behaviour. I like to think I’m pretty suspicious – I regularly put the phone down on anyone trying [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Greetings from festive land!

I hope you and yours are about to have a terrific festive period, enjoy your reunions with your friends, families and loved ones, eat and drink far too much, fall asleep after your lunch – or main – meal and generally have a good time. Yesterday (Christmas Eve) my traditional ritual of [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

A festive outing

I have two brothers and one of them lives in Wandsworth. Yesterday I travelled to a pub not far from there for my debut at an annual Christmas lunch he organises for his mates on a relaxed ‘anyone who can be bothered to turn up’ basis. He sends out an invitation to all and then decides where to [...]

December 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

And your point is?

The crazy thing about the war of the sexes is that it still makes the headlines. These days arguments over whether or not there have been disproportionately few great female artists, musicians, composers or political leaders down through history ought to be superfluous, but we still get the same [...]

December 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

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