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Knuckling down to it

With apologies to those who have not been following my progress since having a full right hip replacement in July, and (now I think of it) probably also to those who have, I return again to my chosen subject rather more swiftly than I might otherwise have done for the simple reason that on Bank [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Funeral for a friend’ s mother

Yesterday I went to the cremation and reception afterwards of the mother of a close friend of mine. I doubt if  I met her 10 times in her life, never visited her home, nor her mine but  that was not the point . It was the correct thing to do to pay my last respects and to be there for my friend. [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Something that didn’t smell quite right

Yesterday evening I made a journey into south-west London in order to have the latest in a lengthy line of ‘swift and cheerful’ catch-up early evening meals with my daughter at a local version of a well-known pizza chain establishment. Normally I bomb up to her place in Oxfordshire where she [...]

August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stuck in the middle

This weekend I am down at the coast and trying to keep to a routine of doing my new, more strenuous, physio exercises. Now six weeks out from my hip operation (the point at which, anecdotally, most ‘hippers’ are told they should be fit enough to return to work) I am still some way behind where [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

An incident in a supermarket

A true story. Yesterday, shortly before 6.00pm, I set off to drive into my local town in order to buy some food provisions that (I had been informed) were absolutely essential if I wished to enjoy the full majesty of my much-anticipated evening meal. My shop of choice for this expedition was [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Still possessing the urge and the protective cup

It wasn’t long after I joined the Rust that I received my first ticking off from the editor during an editorial meeting. He had just delivered a stirring oration upon the principles upon which the website had supposedly been founded, i.e. giving those past the first flush of youth the opportunity [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time

Yesterday I popped over to spend a couple of hours with my old friend Patrick in order to work upon our latest pet project. Before we got down to business, in catching up upon each other’s news, I mentioned in passing that a couple of days previously my younger brother had told me that one of his [...]

August 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The i360 Watchtower

Brighton is never a city to sit on its laurels or its backside. The electric railway of Magnus Volk, still running from the pier to the Marina, is the oldest such railway in the world; it is the only coastal city with its own Palace the  Royal Pavilion. It has the quaint Lanes full of antiques [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The next stage

Yesterday – five weeks and counting after my hip replacement operation – I went for my first physio session. Regular followers may recall that I only reached this stage because a couple of weeks ago, puzzled that I hadn’t already been called for physio as I understood would be the case, I [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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