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Aspects of political correctness

Here’s an early bid to win a nomination for the shortlist of the 2017 version of the internal Rusters’ competition to find the most incongruous link between two media stories. My starting point is that familiar old bugbear of the editorial team – the wonderful world of Political Correctness. [...]

March 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

GRAND HOTEL DU CAP FERRAT Whilst unquestionably a hotel that justifies its name in terms of location, elegance and amenity and one we always visit every year they were a bit naughty with their pricing. 14 Euros for a latte? Come on!!! After being charged 60 euros just to use the pool!!! Admittedly, [...]

March 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Goodbye, cruel world!

Give me strength! The vagaries of modern technology get occasional mentions on this organ but I’m seemingly under near-constant attack at the moment. Within the pages of the glossy supplements and technology magazine programmes we learn about the coming joys of artificial intelligence – robot [...]

March 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Turning back time (not)

I didn’t watch yesterday England’s 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania yesterday because I was on my way to the gym and wasn’t that interested. Call me old-fashioned in this era when FIFA want 128 or something nations to play in the World Cup Finals but, for me, in prospect any England [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with the past

My first father-in-law had an abiding hatred of the Japanese borne of his WW2 experiences. It was perhaps understandable. He has signed up at its outset, got shipped out to bolster the defence of Singapore about a fortnight before the British surrender and spent the rest of the War as a Japanese [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

I always enjoy the Rust trip to Nice. March and April supposedly spring can be cold and windy in the UK whilst it is 15 degrees here. On our first night we went to La Petite Maison. I too was overwhelmed by the warmth of welcome of its owner Nicole as her rudeness is legendary and only matched by [...]

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dearie me

No apologies for this one! On the Rust we all mock ourselves for ‘cheating’ whenever we spot a silly piece in the media covering some whacky survey or published research, off which we can make some hopefully amusing comment and/or comparison with one’s own life. Here’s a [...]

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bob’s birthday and Cote d’Art

One of the things I most enjoy about the Cote d’Azur is the public art or to put it differently the U.K. suffers by comparison. Even in London there might be the odd public sculpture, memorial fountain or park gates usually of a poor standard. Here in Nice we noticed immediately a blue modern [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

A reunion lunch and afterwards

Yesterday I had lunch with Bill, one of my old golfing partners, whom I hadn’t seen for about four years. The parting of the ways was originally prompted by a lunch at which our group of four regulars sat down and took a decision to give up our club memberships simultaneously. We had concluded [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bienvenue National Rust

Michel de Vacri It takes more than Brexit, the July 14 terrorist attack and the slump in the pound to prevent the spring trip of National Rust to my city. I was delighted that not only Alice, Daphne, Nancy and Robert with his two p/as Grania and Polly were coming here but also Lavinia and Simon to [...]

March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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