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Saturday TV sport

Rather like the modern type of restaurant that serves tables all morning, afternoon, evening and night – during which time service declines – the televised sport I watched yesterday got worse as it went on. The best was indubitably Ireland’s first ever rugby union victory over the All [...]

July 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tempus keeps fugitting …

Life has a habit of throwing up happy accidents and/or random interventions that either prove to be decidedly fortuitous or indeed quite the opposite. Only the other day the publisher of this organ mentioned in a conversation that its founders’ original mission had only ever been “to do [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach …

Regular Rusters may be aware that – possibly in part as a gesture of defiance and/or general “raging against the dying of the light” – from time to time I undertake periods of what might properly be described as regular physical activity but I prefer to pretend are “fitness campaigns”. [...]

July 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Finally, the world stops going mad

Although this organ’s mission statement and running themes are well known to its adherents – and we need make no apologies for them – I have been reassured to see that recently the world of sports administration seems, after much hang-wringing and procrastination, at last to have [...]

June 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting pictures in the mind

For what it’s worth – despite my Rust editorial responsibilities – I have to confess that my original plan for yesterday afternoon had not involved sport at all. There was plenty of it going on – the women’s rugby league international between England and France, the rugby union [...]

June 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Time keeps slipping away …

One of the weirder aspects of “being of one’s time” is the phenomenon I readily admit to – I don’t know whether other Rusters have similar thoughts – that, human nature being what it is, beyond the age of about 45 one’s perception of how old one is becomes progressively more at [...]

June 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Das Boot/third series

Last night Sky Atlantic began the third series of Das Boot. Originally an outstanding film which was hailed as one of the best films on World War Two in one recent poll, it then morphed into a tv series. It posed a problem on how sympathetically you dramatise a Nazi naval success that halted many [...]

May 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Back on the road again (not)

As regular Rusters will know, on the face of it my driving record – now encompassing two separate six month disqualifications for amassing 12 speeding points in a single clutch (by which statement I mean to refer to the fact that after three years duration each “offence” is treated by the [...]

May 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

My last day’s shopping

Yesterday was our last full day and I decided to make mine my customary shopping visit to the high end menswear shop Bexley in the centre of Nice. I cannot find any equivalent to Bexley in the UK as its range covers shoes, suits, jackets, shirts and leisure wear. I especially like their [...]

April 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Two novels set in Florence: Angels of Mud & Still Life

As Venice is for painters so Florence has attracted writers: E. M Forster’s Room With a View and Alex Preston’s In Love and War to name but two. By happenstance the last two novels I have read were both set in post war Florence. Curious too with half the Rust team in Nice. The first – [...]

April 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

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