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Brighton’s best restaurants

Next week Brighton”s Food Festival takes place and I was asked to profile my fave restaurants and here they are: Busby & Wild ( Kemptown, modern British) Danny’s (Hove, Chinese) English’s (traditional sea food, The Lanes) Ginger Dog (gastro  pub, Kemptown) The Salt Room [...]

August 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming to the point

Without doubt the world has always been obsessed with sex, probably because it has needed to be – why else would God or Nature have given every species (well, perhaps bar the panda if some zoologists are to be believed) such a strong desire to mate and perpetuate itself? I found myself [...]

August 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

History and character

Like many people of my vintage I conduct a futile personal campaign to hold back the ravages of Time by maintaining my membership of a local health club. To be frank, whenever I weigh the cost of doing so against the number of times I actually manage to visit said establishment, it doesn’t [...]

August 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming out of the woods with my hands up

There have been reports in the media this week detailing the findings of a YouGov poll on sexual preferences released last weekend – including the fact that almost a quarter of Brits (23%) would not regard themselves as exclusively heterosexual, a figure rising to 49% amongst those aged [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

An outing in the Solent

Yesterday I traveled in a small party by motor cruiser to Bembridge on the north-east of the Isle of Wight, for much of the trip being let loose on the wheel in the cockpit. The conditions were overcast and mild – save for the forty minute period over lunch during which bright sunshine broke [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

We love a good debate or discussion here at the Rust and therefore I make no apology for returning to the subject of women and sport, as most recently observed in cricket. Last week I blogged about the solitary Test match which, together with a mix of One Day Internationals and T20 games, comprise [...]

August 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Remembering VJ-Day

Yesterday was ‘VJ-Day plus 70 (years)’. I spent it in the company of my father, nearing ninety, who had indicated his intention to watch BBC’s live television coverage of the commemorative service at St Martins-in-the-Field attended by the Queen and Prince Philip and then the equivalent [...]

August 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Goodmans

My mother used to say when she went to a restaurant she would never order anything she could serve or cook at home, citing smoked salmon and steak. Steak features strongly on the menu at Goodmans whose Canary Wharf restaurant I visited on Thursday. I went with a friend of my husband Olly, who had a [...]

August 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Lessons learned by a bloody nose

Next week will mark the seventy-third anniversary of the disastrous Dieppe Raid on 19th August 1942 by British and Canadian troops. For some time the Russians had been lobbying Britain and the Allies to open a second front in north-west Europe in order to relieve the pressure they were under from [...]

August 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Adventures in Human Being/ Gavin Francis

When I was a GP I was always amazed how little my patients understood their bodies. The odd heavy drinker had undue faith in the regenerative powers of his liver but to most you had to explain that the heart was a muscular pump. Thus Gavin Francis, a Scottish doctor, has done a service in his book [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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