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OK – but could do better

My latest report from the minefield of medical science and fitness regimes contains a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Earlier this week I presented myself to the nurse at my GP surgery to undergo a ‘general health test’ – something that I was first offered a couple of years ago. As I [...]

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holier than thou

My new fitness regime, hampered of course by my gammy hip, continues. They say man cannot live by bread alone and, since (on my new self-designed diet imposed since 1st January) bread and potatoes are banned, some of us cannot even live on that. Last night, for our evening meal, we had what I now [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Colony Grill/ Beaumont Hotel

I was intrigued to see how the Corbin/King combo who brought us the Caprice and Ivy and now Wolseley and Fischers would fares in their latest venture – a hotel (the Beaumont). The short answer seems to be very well. The hotel has at first sight an unusual location in that rather anonymous [...]

January 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, whaddya know?

I’m now in my second day of having my laptop back from the computer repair shop around the corner. I do promise you that little would have given me more pleasure this morning than to have no reason to blog any further about my ‘screen cleaning’ incident of Saturday and its aftermath. Sadly, I [...]

January 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Matter of Choice

Even though we are bombarded by emails to buy from a company once you have purchased from them on line, there is still something satisfying about a chance personal acquisition. This happen to me twice over the past 6 months. I  was walking to my hotel in Welbeck Street from Oxford Street some [...]

January 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

What triumph is this?

So The Sun has quietly dropped its Page 3 topless model shots and I spent much of my yesterday being presented with female MPs, campaigners and celebrities on television and radio meowing in triumph at the demise of this iconic symbol of male chauvinism and tendency to treat women as objects, not [...]

January 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A night in Barnes

One of minor hazards of being a columnist for one of the great internet commercial successes of the 21st Century is that my friends and acquaintances are always badgering me for updates upon my attempts to survive in the world of modern technology. [In which context, I hope that more occasional [...]

January 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Doing what you can

Medical and fitness issues concern me today. It’s been about three months since my hospital consultant, having listened patiently to my long list of symptoms and ongoing discomforts in my arthritic hip, paused for a moment and cheerily responded “That’s fine then, I’ll sign [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Raging against the modern world – particularly modern technology – seems to be coming a way of life for your truly. My previous venture onto the pages of the National Rust was all to do with the practice of organisations (both commercial and otherwise) telephoning individuals out of the [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

In the Apple Store

I belong to the generation that went from no knowledge to Word for Windows overnight and, like many a writer on the Rust, confused by it all. I accept that my p/a Polly can dance over the keyboard effortlessly producing documents, images etc. but when my six year old Godson can work the handset on [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

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