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Getting used to it

Well, that’s my hip operation and hospital-stay recovery over, and now I’m back at home feeling tired, battered but also happy to be less institutionalised than I was over the weekend. My days currently consist of four bouts of taking between 3 and 6 pills at a time during my waking hours (a [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get serious

One of the benefits of getting old is that life becomes ever more simple and straightforward – that’s what I like to maintain, anyway. The thing is that – as modern life hurtles on past your train window – we all tend to get fed up trying to stay ‘connected’ and gradually regroup (or [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the mind – or is it?

For someone who played a lot of sport in my youth, albeit in a ‘keen but averagedly talented’ fashion, I reckon I’m in reasonable shape. I’ve had the occasional twinge over the years – e.g. two broken matatarsals in my feet (one retaining its metal pin some four [...]

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s life

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? Well sometimes it comes true. After yesterday’s opener in what I had intended might be a gritty, blow by blow, series of reports from the front line by a gentleman of a certain vintage – plainly one a little beyond the [...]

July 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hip-(H)op

At about your breakfast time this morning I shall be driven by my daughter to a hospital in southern England in order to prepare for my long-anticipated hip replacement operation. It was about two-and-threequarter years ago now that, whilst temporarily and deliberately playing golf at high speed in [...]

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

BRASSERIE MALMAISON Brighton Marina is not well served by restaurants almost all are chains – purveying  fast food. The Seattle hotel has been taken over and re-branded by the Malmaison Group.  I went there with Editor of the Rust and our Web designer. You take a lift up from street to the [...]

July 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Call me old-fashioned …

It is a fact of this life that, as one gets older, the frequency of being teased (or ribbed) by others – whether family or friends – about one’s characteristics, habits, traits or attitudes tends to increase. I suspect that in part it’s all done in affection – and indeed that, as [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

An afternoon on the ocean wave

Yesterday I went out on a pleasant afternoon motor launch trip with my father and some friends on the south coast. This was after I had braved England’s motorways to get there – and for the fourth consecutive time in doing so, found myself trapped in a serious traffic gridlock. This time the [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/64 Degrees

Yesterday in Brighton centre, amongst a myriad of young European adolescent schoolchildren not intimidated by Brexit and some enjoying the first rites of sexual encounter, I came across a forlorn, pitiable feature. It was none other than our very own Bob Tickler. He has suffered in the last [...]

July 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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