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One of the aspects about modern life that most often irritates me is the sheer numbers of people that exist and then on top, of course, the knock-on effects thereof. [Having opened with that sweeping statement, I perhaps need to qualify myself. I am not addressing the issues of the global size of [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Charity begins at home

Yesterday, whilst I was continuing my four-day stay in the country, my host (an elderly relative) suddenly announced that he had decided to attend a service at his local church – thereby resuming his regular Sunday routine after a gap of about four months. Long ago he stopped going to the Matins [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign of the times

In my capacity as a Rust-er observing life as it is lived in the 21st Century I sometimes alight upon an item on the internet that amuses or causes pause for thought. My grandmother, who died in 1977, held views that no doubt reflected the attitudes of her time. One of them was that men who grew [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Hotel du Vin/ England v Australia

For the England v Australia match husband Ollie had invited the chaps round for lagers and take-away pizza to watch and, not feeling like any of the last four, I organised a girls’ night. Ivan Conway called to say as he was going to the Amex and therefore not taking up his 4 places at the [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

All’s well that ends well

I spent yesterday at the coast with my aged father. It began inauspiciously with two expeditionary failures. The first was a drive to the local town’s theatre – when we arrived there at 0915 hours we learned for the first time that its box office does not open until 1000 hours and we [...]

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Internet v shop visit

A debate raging over the sports pages of the Rust is the relative  benefits of attending  a sporting event or watching it at home. The same factors of convenience v social contact apply to the issue of Internet or personal shop visiting. I was asked to participate in a survey and rather than base [...]

October 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to Blighty

Yesterday I and three family members, one a cousin who has lived in North America for the past forty years, returned to Blighty after a four-day tour of WW1 battlefields and cemeteries for which our guide was fellow Ruster Henry Elkins. The trip served us well on two counts – firstly, the [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign Of The Times

Not all my Rust colleagues are reactionary old coots. However, besides raging against the dying of the light and chronicling our personal observations upon the passing of time – and without ‘doing a John Major’ by being erroneously nostalgic for periods of our youth when life [...]

September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the preparation

Next week I shall be part of a family group (one flying over from Seattle for the purpose) on a four-day tour of the cemeteries and battlefields of WW1 centred – because of an ancestor’s connection – around the centenary of the Battle of Loos which began on 25th September 1915. Guiding us [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Wright Brothers , Old Brompton Road

Wright Brothers are huge suppliers of fish to the restaurant industry so when they opened their fourth restaurant in Old Brompton Road you could guarantee that the produce would be fresh and tasty. The restaurant used to be one of those intimate French brasseries, la Bouchee, in which I finished up [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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