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Mark’s Club, 28-50 and Chez Bruce

A good friend of mine, when it his turn to take me out for a six monthly lunch, favours the exclusive restaurant clubs of Mayfair. The service is first rate, the food is always reliable and one can talk discreetly. Yesterday he invited me to Mark’s Club which was founded by Mark Birley, the [...]

January 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Comparing drama with reality

As someone who very rarely watches films these days – either in cinemas or at home via television, DVDs and downloads – I’m a little wary of venturing tentatively onto the territory patrolled by the Rust’s great Neil Rosen. Nevertheless, I trust that the powers-that-be will allow me [...]

January 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Tortoise in Town

Yesterday (Tuesday) I had cause – taking my aged father to two routine medical appointments – to visit the centre of London by car. On Monday I had paid £11.50 for my required Congestion Charge in advance and, in the wake of recent media reports that not only is the Congestion Charge generally [...]

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

You never quite know what you’ve got

Serendipity is a wonderful thing and today I wish to bring Rust readers the joys of a true story. I have lived in my current abode in the quiet suburbs of south-west London for over twenty years. During this period I have been in the habit of going across the road to my local newsagents shop to [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s all around, so get used to it!

Comment upon the process of ageing is a familiar subject on the Rust – one might say it comes with the territory – and so I hope our readers will allow me this one. It seems to me there are two basic competing themes. The first is that, on a day to day basis, human beings naturally regards [...]

January 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Keeping the flame alive

I don’t know for sure but I suspect that a proportion of the Rust’s estimated 875,000 daily readers would agree with me in occasionally becoming tired and frustrated at the incessant complaints of some of our most prolific columnists about the modern world and the way that technology and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s all wonderful in the mad world of PC-correctness

They say that people gravitate towards publications and media outlets that reflect/reinforce their own views rather than those that might tend to broaden their horizons. How did that old joke go? The Times is read by the people who run the country; The Guardian is read by people who would like to [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week Two)

And so, about a fortnight in and probably inevitably, we get to the first real hiccup in my new 2017 personal fitness regime. Last week for reasons beyond my control I had first to spend 36 hours in the country visiting family and then attend a bit of a blow-out meal where copious amounts of [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Le Colombier

I visited this restaurant for the first time as it is a favourite of a good friend of mine a retired art dealer called Sebastian. It has, with its terrace and pretty blue and white interior, very much the flavour of Paris and you might term the cuisine as reliable French brasserie. Situated right [...]

January 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reunion meal

Yesterday I travelled into central London for lunch with a pal and some of his mates, all of them alumni of the same school. There was a certain novelty to the expedition because I’m now about a decade past the time I last commuted into the metropolis and it was fascinating – if you see what I [...]

January 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

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