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Perfection – or glorious uncertainty?

Yesterday sports editor Tom Hollingworth posted an early-morning instant personal reaction to the impact of that super-typhoon Hagibis had wreaked upon the hitherto admirable smooth running of the 2019 Rugby World Cup even before it had hit land. Having, like all good and true followers begun my [...]

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Saga endeth

I had to admit conditional defeat in my battle with Saga. I took advice from a loss adjuster I have known for many years who said that an insurance company can and does cancel a policy if payment is not made, even though it is the incorrect sum. So I decided to agree to pay on a quarterly basis and [...]

October 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Blown away

Overnight I was listening to Rhod Sharp’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live when it cut at 4.00am (UK time) live and direct to Rugby World Cup press conference at which it was announced that two games on Saturday have been cancelled – one of them the Pool C shoot-out between England and [...]

October 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The PC advance continues …

Just as the human condition defines our view of the world, so does our stage of life. It’s not so much a case of “Stop the world I want to get off!” but the fact that – as we reach the cusp of adulthood – our backgrounds and circumstances determine our [...]

October 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

Turning up the volume

Make no mistake, thanks to the choice of host nation and the party atmosphere generated by the fans, this is already a great Rugby World Cup despite the on-pitch controversies over new high tackle rules and the ‘slippery ball’ handling errors caused by the temperatures, humidity and dew. At the [...]

October 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

A feature of the modern world

With a nod to “When did you last stop beating your wife?” – the legal phrase allegedly deployed recently and controversially by Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC – I wished to turn today to the vexed subject of gender. In doing so, and being (as I am) sufficiently ‘in touch’ to be [...]

October 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Doing it right

It is an inalienable fact of life that every sport known to man comes with a series of principles that define its culture and to an extent attracts participants that respond to them on one level or another. There are also inherent differences between those which one might describe as individual [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Saga continues

Readers may recall my profound dissatisfaction with Saga over the renewal of my medical insurance. The premium increased by 100% and when I queried this I was told there was a computor issue. A new letter arrived quoting the disputed sum as last year’s premium and increasing that. In desperation [...]

October 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

And in The End …

It is in the nature of things that at a Ruster’s stage of life reminders of tempus fugit – welcome or otherwise – tend to come thick and fast in all areas of existence. Recently in the field of music a new edition of the Beatles’ penultimately released (but last recorded) album Abbey Road, [...]

October 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

A “Doh!” moment in Doha

Sharp-eyed Rusters may have noticed our ‘non-coverage’ of the World Athletics Championships currently taking place in Doha, Qatar, over the past few days. No disrespect intended to those dedicated and hard-working individuals who devote themselves to participating in track & field – [...]

October 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

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