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No mobile angst

Given the travails of my colleague with his new phone I was rather fearful of my trip to Vodafone to upgrade my iPhone. My now old mobile was clearly on its last legs – prone to seizures – and the bottom part of the screen did not activate at all. I was an unusual customer because of my [...]

March 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

The business side of it

For musical Rusters – or even just those fascinated by the music industry, here’s an editorial that appears today upon the website of – THE [...]

March 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Table talk

…. And now here’s a list to keep Ruster movie fans everywhere reflecting over their bacon and eggs this morning: Tim Robey and Robbie Collin – film critics for The Daily Telegraph – make their selection of the 100 best British movies of all time – see here, courtesy of [...]

March 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Some things keep changing – and some don’t

It is of these things that in the world of entertainment some of the standard rules of business apply and some don’t. In one sense it’s an obvious point to make – and no doubt most sectors (e.g. fishing, fashion, flying and … er porn) would probably claim similar – but few have been more [...]

March 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old

I sometimes wonder whether when we Rusters appear a service a notice comes up to the provider: “Ruster alert, be unhelpful” One of my colleagues was berating the dilatory nature in which a finance house produced paperwork – or failed to. I was promised that a pack crystallising a stagnant [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part III)

They say that in life that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better and but yesterday I think I just about held my own – which is a laidback way of reporting that I shall be on my way back to the phone shop as soon as it opens this morning to try and discover the answer to a [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man … (Part II)

Yesterday afternoon, and probably inevitably, by 4.30pm I was back at the phone shop. Overnight in the wee hours I had set about the task of getting to grips with my new Huawei P30. I tried to establish in it my two email accounts, my preferred Apps and some new ones I was being offered, in order [...]

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Yesterday I took a step into the unfamiliar and – to me often baffling – modern world by the simple means of upgrading my mobile phone, a move that apparently came my way because I had come to the end of my current two-year contract. As any oldie will tell you, such things are always beset by [...]

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye upon some perennial favourites …

Here’s an update upon the latest media stories on two issues we feature regularly in our Rust sports coverage: CONCUSSION Iconic Wales rugby union player George North is even now undergoing concussion protocols as a result of yet another head injury he sustained in the last round of Six [...]

February 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ 24 hours dining in London

I had a whirlwind trip to London in which I visited three of my favourite restaurants: Fischers, the Wolseley and the Goring. I have reviewed these often enough so I will only say that all three maintained  their high standards of cuisine, comfort and service. At the Wolseley I gave an old friend [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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