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A day in Southampton

Yesterday I visited the Southampton Boat Show, not so much because I am a yottie but because I know people who are. A former work colleague had contacted me to announce he was attending with some pals and – if I was doing nothing else – I might like to join them. That was the case. Apart from [...]

September 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Close of play

The death (aged 84) of Brian Close, a Yorkshireman through and through, sometime cricket captain of England, Yorkshire and Somerset and an all-round sportsman of some renown, was announced yesterday. Although when he made his debut for England at the age of 18 he was the youngest ever to do so, [...]

September 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard :The River Cafe

When Ruth Rogers was recently on Desert Island Discs the one thing she omitted to say about her River Cafe is the size of the price of the dishes. First courses come at £20 mains £35-40. My host, a charmer from the property world, had 5 pieces of ravioli – gold ingots would have been [...]

September 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s raining cats and dogs

Ignoring those unfortunates who despise all animals, when it comes to domestic pets – and for these purposes I’m ignoring incarcerated beings such as snakes, lizards, tortoises, turtles, terrapins, rats, mice, stoats, ermine, hamsters, guinea pigs, goats, guinea fowl, parrots, cockatoos, [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another brave new world

For the past week Sky News has been running a series of reports on the rapid and ongoing development of ‘smart’ robots, thereby prompting a discussion upon the potential threat to jobs represented by the possibility that one day there’ll barely be a reason for human beings to work at all [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sticking to a hard line

Just occasionally one comes across a piece in the media that makes you think, irrespective of where you stand politically and/or in terms of religious belief (or lack of it). Throughout recent history there have been continuous internal interpretation discussions/arguments going on between [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

World’s apart

The process of ‘growing up’ (or is it ‘growing old’?) is a strange one, but I was thinking about it yesterday and it seems to me that reaching overall impressions and conclusions about the world just doesn’t get any easier. This self-revelation is somewhat disappointing because – [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stanmer House

In my recent review of Brighton restaurants I omitted Stanmer House sometimes called Brighton’s hidden jewel. Stanmer House is more or less opposite the Amex stadium in Falmer adjacent to the university and a refreshing alternative to the busy restaurants in the Lanes or on the seafront. [...]

September 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Don’t shoot the messenger

Sassy rock singer Chrissie Hynde – she of Pretenders and sometime marriages to the Kinks’ Ray Davies and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds fame [and by the way I don’t care a fig that the sisterhood might seek to take me to task for defining her by her marriages to well-known men – I’m solely [...]

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

The eagles have landed but (just) remain in touch

Having yesterday forsaken the drudgery of Britain for a week’s recuperation sampling the delights of the Tuscan/Umbrian border with my husband and three other couples, regular Rust readers may react with a variety of emotions to the news that I spent the early evening contemplating the novelty of [...]

August 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

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