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Foot in mouth as an occupational hazard

Perhaps the blazing sunshine I’ve been sitting in this week has fried my brain, but today I’m almost going to argue against the very reasons that I first began contributing my scribblings to the Rust, i.e. the belief that those of us beyond the first flush of youth still have valid things to [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Religion and faith has plenty to answer for

Writing this as a self-proclaimed atheist, though not a proselytising one, it seems to me that such is human existence that as many people as possible believing in something is a good thing. Believing in anything, I mean. In a God or indeed gods, in a common set of humanitarian principles, in the [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Passing of a very great man

In 1938 Nicholas Winton a 29 year old London stockbroker decided on a whim to travel to Prague to see what he could to save the lives of people mainly Jews threatened by the Nazis. That decision was to save the lives of 669 children he organised onto trains to London. That would qualify him for the [...]

July 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Over there (for a short while)

As previewed in my previous post, I spent yesterday in France in the company of the Rust’s Mr Elkins, whose famous enthusiasm for things WW1 knows little bounds and prompts in him both a boyish gushing enthusiasm and verbal diarrhoea of biblical proportions. I was aware of this before our [...]

June 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Part of the team at last!

Today I am going on an expedition into northern France, accompanying Henry Elkins on one of his WW1 ‘recce’ research trips. He’s been engaged to guide a special family group tour at the back end of September, based around the centenary of the Battle of Loos and then the Somme in September [...]

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Things you never read

I never believe those couples who publicise their break up with there are no third parties involved. It’s rarely if ever the case and I wonder what the motive is. Perhaps they want to present a no-blame front to friends and family so no side is taken. I know one couple who sent out such [...]

June 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Memory lost

In the week I was invited to Scotland Yard for a lunch and  briefing by Assistant Commisioner Mark Rowley. As it was confidential I cannto share the contents with you as Tickler would be clapped in irons and taken  to the Tower . The Commissoner had 8 points to make and with my failing memory I [...]

June 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Anything that keeps you smiling

More recent generations than mine might think that there are few upsides to being a senior citizen with a fading memory. Although – speaking as someone in that category myself – I might even agree with them in principle, you have to try to keep looking at the bright side, don’t you? [...]

June 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Making the world go around

Anyone who’s reached the age of twelve or thirteen is capable of appreciating that human relationships – opposite sex or same-sex – are infinitely complex. They can be subtle – or decidedly unsubtle. I’m talking about all relationships here, not merely about [...]

June 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on

Someone once said “The world takes you at your own estimation”. Even though my kids are now in their thirties, I often quote that statement at them. I’m not 100% certain what it means, but the way I interpret it is that, broadly-speaking – and I’m not talking race, class or gender here [...]

June 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

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