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Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you just have to give credit

Yesterday, despite the attractions of the sunny weather on the south coast, I strapped myself in and watched the European Rugby Champions Cup Final (kick-off 5.00pm at Murrayfield) ‘live’ on BT Sport from end to end. It was won for the second year running by Saracens, this time by the margin of [...]

May 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

First of the season

They say that simple things please simple minds and maybe that is true. Yesterday, in a party of six, I set off on board a motor launch somewhere along the south coast of England for our first outing of 2017. The co-owners of the boat always refuse to have it put it in the water before mid-May on [...]

May 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

An enjoyable lunch

Yesterday I had lunch with an very old pal of mine, a heavy hitter in the ad world and a sports media personality who was a former footballer. I thought I would be reprising my trip in Nice but our conversation was more catholic. My ad friend, picking up on Alice Mansfield’s theme, is an [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

An expedition into town

Yesterday I went on my first trip to central London in about five months for a lunch. Courtesy of my old age pensioners’ free whatever-it’s-called travel card I travelled by rail to Waterloo and thence by the Northern Line to Tottenham Court Road, scene of one of my former working haunts. The [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The mince-grinder of sporting success

The English Premiership season is drawing to its play-off stage and, appropriately perhaps, the one thing that can be said for those clubs involved [Wasps, Exeter Chiefs Saracens and Leicester Tigers] is that – over the course of the competition – there can be no dispute that the best four are [...]

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

British Gas saga ( part two)

My father had a wonderful phrase to describe a dashboard of the motor cars which he liked to trade every two years: “It’s got the mug’s eyeful” I cannot think of better description of the smart meter whose most useful feature is the clock and has many of which I am unaware [...]

May 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brave new world

One of the leitmotifs of the Rust is the difficulty we oldies experience in dealing with the new techno/internet world. We are the generation that went overnight from ignorance to word and world of windows over night. Being a bachelor I am not susceptible to the same pressures to get things done [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

A high-achiever and natural communicator

This is either going to be a ‘first’ for the Rust … or a complete waste of time. I say that with a degree of confidence because, as a ‘Gold Star’ winning technophobe, I have not the faintest idea as to whether what I am about to attempt will work … Let me [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another tale of ‘cheap and cheerful’ flying

Reading of Robert Tickler’s experience of flying back to the UK by Easyjet on the Rust yesterday brought to mind my own progress from Palma, Mallorca to Gatwick on Thursday evening. One of the things that never ceases to amaze me – when our media and left wing politicians would have it that the [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

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