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A la Colthard/ Grand Eastbourne and The Jetty

The Grand at Eastbourne is one of the,well, grandest hotels on the South coast. With its wide stucco facade like a wedding cake and its gracious salons it very much an old fashioned hotel of style and luxury. Claude Debusssy came to stay after his marriage packed up. Having said all of this I have [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmnnn ….

They say of London buses that when you need one they don’t come for ages – and, when eventually they do, several arrive in convoy. As a senior citizen, I say similarly damn this internet thing, whose most annoying aspect is almost the reverse. When you read something of note somewhere on a [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just a thought

A fascinating aspect of what, for want of a better terms I shall call ‘major crises’ (whether they be over something cooked for an important dinner party at home that goes wrong, your local football team losing four games on the bounce, right through to national political impasses or even US [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Upon receiving a short sharp shock

Yesterday evening, on the BBC television’s Six O’Clock News, I caught a report upon some new findings by medical researchers on the effects of smoking upon the human body. It was uncompromising, stark, direct and blunt and – for this viewer – a bit of ‘sit up and take notice’ moment. I [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make them up

Please forgive me, but I must share with Rust readers these two examples that I have copied from a piece appearing on the Daily Mail website today on the subject of embarrassing and/or funny text exchanges between parents and children, posted on the internet almost exclusively by the latter. There [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Bucca di Lupo

Last night I visited for the first time a Soho Italian restaurant called Bucca di Lupo. Not knowing the restaurant at all I was not sure what to expect but my old friends of many years standing had recommended and chosen it. My male friend ‘s family once had a second home in Umbria and over [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things never change – or should they?

There’s a new survey out that apparently concluded that nobody above a certain age – the beginning of one’s sixth decade – should ever wear a pair of jeans. See here for a piece on this in – THE GUARDIAN Confession time. I’m writing today as someone who lives by the Bob Dylan lyric [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day 2

This week I went back for a final (‘signing off’) appointment with one of the team that did my hip replacement surgery three and a half months ago. It was relatively uneventful largely because, having pitched up for a previous appointment early in September, I had learned my lessons as regards [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day

Yesterday I saw no less than 3 medicos wishing to clear them all in one day. I started with my first series of vaccinations for a trip to India later in the year. I like my doctor as he is old school, very experienced and optimistic. I won’t see a GP who is rushed and does not maintain eye [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Whatever you want

As a forward-looking 21st Century man I like to think that I’m pretty liberal on most matters to do with human relationships and hold a relaxed attitude towards the interests of others, even if they should differ from mine. The universe is an entity without boundaries or limits, that is, if [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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