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Whoever would ever have thought it?

[Disclaimer: There’s been a long-running in-joke on the Rust team for years about ‘filler’ media reports setting out supposed insightful findings about humanity, as discovered by obscure research teams in obscure universities around the world, usually via surveys they have conducted featuring [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Frustration

Somebody is soon going to have to do something about the traffic conditions in modern Britain. Having not so long ago failed to reach a funeral in Fulham because on the day the roads of south-west London were in the grip of in a ten square mile gridlock for unknown reasons, I’ve recently had the [...]

May 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaching the end of the road

Yesterday I went to the south coast to join a lunch at which my aged father was present. During the ten days since I had last seen him he had an ‘incident’ in which, in seeking to remove his car from a car park, he drove quite hard into another car by somehow getting confused and accidentally [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tour de Lyon

After a hard half-day’s travelling (leaving our hotel in Lyon at an eye-watering 0445 hours) I reached home yesterday and ‘flopped’ – pulling up the drawbridge, watching a bit of the Barcelona Formula One Grand Prix before retiring to my pit for a two-hour snooze. Some that sports fans [...]

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach

This is the Big One – at precisely 0630 hours this morning a two-man SOE unit [you’ll have to look it up] will be picked up and driven to the City airport in London to be flown into enemy-occupied France. Their do-or-die mission will be to provide support to the formerly-mighty Quins match day [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ La Petite Maison

I went to the La Petite Maison on Brooks Mews just behind Claridges with some trepidation after the three superb meals I enjoyed in the restaurant that bears its name in Nice. It does not appear under the same ownership but reference is made to it in the menu and the cuisine is certainly Nicois. [...]

May 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

I had booked the Mango Tree in Victoria for lunch with Les Girls, our first opportunity to get together after Nice. On the Sunday I was called to reconfirm though I find this an unnecessary practice. All the more so as the Mango Tree is a spacious restaurant and only four tables were taken. This [...]

May 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

It depends how you define equality

From our growing ‘stuck record’ department, I fear. On the subjects of tennis, equal pay, political correctness and similar, here comes another report upon research suggesting that elite female tennis players are some of the luckiest sports-people alive in terms of ‘value for [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Remembering rugby’s sacrifice

Yesterday afternoon I travelled to Twickenham Stadium for the launch of the RFU’s Rose & Poppy Gates opposite the middle of the West Stand – essentially a memorial to the England internationals who were killed in the First World War – but (and I was unclear on this point) possibly [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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