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The Gilbert Scott/ Renaissance Hotel

Having only a narrow window to meet my cousin en route from New York to Paris I chose the Gilbert Scott restaurant in the Renaissance Hotel. It could not be closer to St Pancras station of which Gilbert Scott was the architect. It’s under the aegis of master chef Marcus Wareing whose group [...]

December 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

And the weekend is still yet to begin …

Regular readers of the Rust may be able to recall my report last week about being texted by my bank at home and being asked if I’d just spent over £200 on groceries in the United States. Shortly afterwards a phone call to their customer service line revealed that there had been an apparent [...]

November 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

The internet has a lot to answer for

It occurs to me that a feature of the internet and its attendant modern social media phenomenon is that most people over the age of fifty have a difficulty to some degree or another in understanding what on earth is going on and why. I know I do. Furthermore, anyone who claims different is being [...]

November 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

I’m probably missing the point, but …

Yesterday Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt of the Metropolitan Police faced the media to issue a public apology to the world as part of an attempt to bring to an end to the ‘scandal’ of a series of undercover policemen having intimate sexual relationships with unsuspecting women [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Meeting up with an old friend

Yesterday I had occasion, as a bit-part player, to join a gathering of the military great and good in central London for lunch – for security and other reasons I fear I cannot give many more details than that. At my advanced age I don’t get out much these days so I guess that readers should [...]

November 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Montpelliano

What is that mysterious alchemy whereby a restaurant survives for over 40 years? In Knightsbridge there are several Italian restaurants still flourishing that I visited for many years – San Lorenzo, Signer Sassi and not so far away La Famiglia – and yesterday I went back to another, [...]

November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Proving I’ve still got it …

There I was, minding my own business watching television last night, when at about 8.30pm a ‘ping’ indicated that a text had arrived on my mobile phone. So far so good. A short while later I wandered over to the sideboard to see whether at last Sophia Loren had seen sense, found herself staying [...]

November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping up with girls

A couple of weeks ago there were a number of stories in the media about a new musical – featuring choreography by Arlene Phillips – being built around the 1970s magazine for young teenage girls called Jackie. Some of you may remember it as a ‘feel good’ publication all about the latest [...]

November 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / The Ship Chichester

I have long been a fan of Murrays restaurant in the Ship hotel but had never stayed here. This I did last Thursday when invited by Tim (Horsfall-Smith) to go to see Ivanov. We were also scheduled to have a National Rust editorial conference in the morning. With this in mind I booked the Cottage as [...]

November 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

The voyage of life

When I signed up as an occasional contributor to this esteemed organ one of the things that persuaded me to do so was the editorial team’s determination that it should not just be a conduit for reflections upon the 21st Century from those of us who were ‘getting on a bit’, but would also [...]

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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