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We’ve all seen ’em from time to time

In the Rust traditions of  firstly, ‘collecting’ lists and – secondly – of providing links for our readers to interesting articles spotted in the media, here’s one from the movie department: David Barnett, writing about the tome The Bad Movie Bible, as see today on [...]

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

A trying day

Yesterday I had a meeting with the editor of The Rust as he wanted me to contribute a regular article on business. Apparently my contribution to the article on alternative investments was well received. I duly met Richard Bolton at my local yacht club. I am no yottie but it has a good view over the [...]

August 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s sauce for the goose …

As I understand it from media reports overnight, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn – who was once in favour of them on principle, has now rejected the proposal made earlier this week by shadow fire minister Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, that ‘women only’ railways carriages should [...]

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

RIP, Horace

Let me tell you a story. I am currently in residence on the south coast of the UK with my father. It has become our practice while staying here to feed the birds on the terrace and on the lawn beyond, only because it means that we benefit from having a small aviary-worth of little (and not so [...]

August 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

The joys of maturity

It so happens yesterday that I was engaged upon a schedule that saw me setting off from the south coast to London at sparrow’s first fart in the morning, spending much of the day in town and then returning to the coast in the early evening. As part of my general scheme, I first [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rose tasting

Think Rose – or better drink Rose – and the image is of a chilled summer wine drunk as an aperitif or with food accompaniment but not one of the big boys of wine. So this is where the marketing comes in to upgrade the image. Thus the Miraval, produced by the vineyard of Brad Pitt and [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pretending they were there

From time to time those of us who live relatively straightforward and uncomplicated lives come across media stories that seem to come from another (alien) world altogether. It’s one in which con artists, fraudsters, fantasists and Walter Mitty-types ‘live out’ lifestyle scenarios [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Let’s get back to … er … basics

Sometimes I find myself agreeing with the Rust editorial line of seeking to present alternative viewpoints or angles to those provided the mainstream media, simply because (1) well, that’s what we like to do; and (2) why bother to rehash or ‘report’ matters which professional [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

It all works out in the end

My daily grind includes internet-surfing around the websites of broadsheet UK newspapers both to get a ‘heads up’ on what’s happening in the world and to see if I can come across any new item worthy of using as the subject of a blog. Thus any astute readers or saddo regular followers can [...]

August 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Everything works fine until it doesn’t

One of the ironies of the age is that anyone of ‘a certain age’ (like me) can be found harping on about how things were in their youth – and how baffling or stupefying the modern world increasingly tends to be – and yet half the time we’re also part of it. On the Rust there’s always [...]

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

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