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Tony Zale – hewn of rock

Many years ago I cut my teeth as a boxing hack on alternative boxing publication called Round One. It was comprised of wannabees like me and has beens like Walter Schlumbermayer. Uncle Walt as we called him was as well known and respected as AJ Leibling and to have met him was a considerable [...]

June 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections

Yesterday for the first time in 10 weeks, I judged it safe to take a corporation bus. It was spotlessly clean and for most of my short journey I was the only passenger. The only breach of social distancing I saw was a van by the kerbside that sold hot food. It is popular with workers at the [...]

June 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coronavirus percentages and life chances

Here’s a link to an article by Professor Karol Sikora on the pandemic and the current factors – and the “at risk” groups prey to them – that appeared overnight on the website of the – DAILY MAIL No doubt there’ll be many people – like me – going [...]

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye on what’s happening

It’s a funny old world. During the gestation period of this organ, in our wildest imaginings not a man jack among the original editorial team had the slightest idea that in a few short years the Rust would become one of the world’s most popular go-to websites or achieve its current ever-growing [...]

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Christo

There are several notable features about the artistic work of Christo who died recently aged 85. His large scale outdoor works were not commissioned – he received nothing for them – and although they took years sometimes decades to plan with his wife Jeanne Claude they were dismantled [...]

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

An outing under the new rules

Yesterday – I believe as permitted under the latest Government rules/advice – I travelled to Oxfordshire in order to see my daughter Grace in the flesh for the first time since she formally announced to the world that she was pregnant and due to produce in late September. It is, of course, [...]

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

It is arguable that one of the greatest casualties of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the last half century’s advancement of female equality. Already it has been reported that, in direct consequence of the UK lockdown, female employees has been more likely to be furloughed and/or [...]

May 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of life thing

As the vicissitudes of encroaching senility gradually creep up behind me I am also conscious that not-dissimilar is happening to those close at hand. Given my past history of occasional mishaps with my attire – cue a reference to those unfortunate times when I have exposed myself to Mrs Patel [...]

May 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s Going On – as Marvin Gaye might have sung …

To borrow a phrase, democracy is a many-splendoured thing but also – as to paraphrase Churchill – that is, if it wasn’t one of those clever/profound bon mots he didn’t actually say or write but which people fondly attribute to him because it sounds like the sort of thing he might have [...]

May 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

There is a positive too

Every morning when I do my 10,000 steps I see a young woman probably in her early twenties walking her Pomeranian dog along the broadwalk. She is  clearly a popular character as her walk is accompanied by those on their balcony greeting her and engaging in conversation. She has probably done this [...]

May 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

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