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A Tale of Two Cities.

Today I’m travelling to Paris for an antiques fair at the Grand Palais. Such is the state of Southern Fail that whilst logistically feasible to travel from the south to St Pancras International directly by the Capital Connect Line it is too risky to make the journey in one day by walking the [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strange times or perhaps maybe not

It is difficult to avoid the view that we live in interesting times, but then in reality all times are ‘interesting’, irrespective of whether they appear to be hosting a bigger number of earth-shattering or iconic events that one might normally expect. Right now we’re approaching getting the [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drive he said

When ex-premier Jim Callaghan retired from office he was asked what he would miss the most and he said a driver. It’s truly one of life’s great luxuries to be collected and delivered door to door avoiding all the stress of driving and other means of transport. A luxury has become a [...]

September 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Did I just dream that?

The act of dreaming is a fascinating and complicated phenomenon. I believe I rarely dream, but several people I know contend strongly that I’m completely wrong in this view, asserting instead that everyone dreams every time they sleep and that maybe it’s just that I don’t remember my mine. [...]

September 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

28-50 and Kitty Fisher

Yesterday I visited an old favourite and a new recommendation. I’ve been going to 28-50 in Marylebone Lane for years and it’s never let me down. The two dishes I fancied, gazpacho and pork belly, were on the fixed lunch menu. Both delicious. Gazpacho can be cloying but here the fresh [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A new one on me

As some who is rapidly approaching his eighth decade, I find that both instinctively and rationally (not necessarily at the same time) I am constantly adjusting my perspective on what is and is not important, relevant or worthy of my attention. There are some aspects of life that I like to think [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it will come to this

It is, of course, the duty of all Rust contributors to keep an eye open for items in the media that might be of interest – whether practical or just passing – to our readers. In that spirit, I feel justified in bringing to wider attention the following report by Shivali Best that [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

They say pride comes before a fall, but I’m happy to record today that I now feel I’m ‘on the up’ as regards recovering from my hip operation (eight weeks ago this coming Friday). I won’t bother you with an exhausting recap. Suffice it to say that, after an initial period of making swift [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why does it always happen to me?

Aspects of modern life that drive you nuts – part 36. Yesterday I was endeavouring to order a set of four 2017 pocket diaries from a well-known supplier for members of my family. Hitherto the annual process has worked like this: towards the end of August the current diary in question has a note [...]

September 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

We’ve come a long way (or have we?)

To be honest, having fought a few equality battles in my time on behalf of the sisterhood and looking back now, sometimes I wonder what all the fuss was about. It’s either that – or that I find myself worrying about what modern young women are doing with the hard-won advances that we put [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

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