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Second day/ a la Colthard

I too was pleased to  be the vocalist of the National Rust jazz touring quartet. My last visit to Cape Town was seven years ago and I was interested to see how tourism has fared post-Mandela. I certainly endorsed Bob’s critique of business travel and the price charged, £3500, for a return [...]

January 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A rewarding family gathering

Since Tuesday 29th December I have been staying with my ancient father at his home on the south coast. On Wednesday evening my cousin Patrick – who is over from America with his wife – rang to announce that, having spent Christmas north of London with family, they had just returned to the [...]

January 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day One/ National Rust Tour to South Africa

I felt honoured to make up the quartet of National Rusters going to Cape Town – with Daphne Colthard, Tom Hollingworth and Douglas Heath – to cover the second test and give our impressions sporting and otherwise of the rainbow nation. This is my fifth visit to South Africa, my first [...]

December 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of nap-taking

My family sometimes josh me because for the last four years or so I have grown into the habit of retiring to my bed after lunch for a post-prandial nap. The official line being broadcast to the world behind my back is that it signals another step upon my journey into old age. From my perspective it [...]

December 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

It’s probably a personal thing, and perhaps it was ever thus, but there doesn’t appear to be much happening this Christmas. Okay, there’s a lot of rain falling – or threatened – in Cumbria, some elderly gentleman has accidentally put his car through a Costas coffee house window in [...]

December 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Men are from Mars? Well, from some distant planet certainly

Sometimes – especially during the festive period when we ladies bear the brunt of the multi-tasking organising, buying and arranging – you just have to laugh. Here’s a link to an article that I spotted today on the subject of men shopping at a certain lingerie store that tickled [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s in a reputation?

Last week Jimmy Hill and Greville Janner, two gentlemen of public note who had been stricken with dementia of one form or another, both died at the age of eighty-seven. I ought to note here that I always steer clear of stating that anyone actually died of dementia because, having had a close family [...]

December 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ba Humbug!

And so the festive season is in full swing – the television schedules are all over the place; pre-Xmas sales are being advertised on the high street; media columnists from every department are compiling their highlights of 2015; BBC Sports Personality Of The Year takes place tomorrow; odd members [...]

December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

The best of Homer

No apologies from me or the Rust for sharing with our readers today this piece on the website of The Daily Telegraph on somebody’s pick of the 40 best one-liner gags from the US cartoon series The Simpsons over the past quarter of a century, or whatever length of time it is since the characters [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Peake of achievement

Yesterday, almost by chance, I watched the take-off of the Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that took with it the European Space agency British astronaut Major Tim Peake to a rendezvous with the International Space Station. I had been out shopping and, upon returning, [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

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