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Coming to terms with the past

My first father-in-law had an abiding hatred of the Japanese borne of his WW2 experiences. It was perhaps understandable. He has signed up at its outset, got shipped out to bolster the defence of Singapore about a fortnight before the British surrender and spent the rest of the War as a Japanese [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A churchyard matter

Last week my father told me when I was down for a visit that the grave of his sister, who died last September aged 94, was in a state of some disrepair in a nearby churchyard – he knew this because he’d recently visited it in the company of my brother. Yesterday, having completely a food shop [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting it right

Having begun yesterday with the assumption that there must be as many different types of family relationship as there are families, yesterday I came to the conclusion that there are may actually be a finite number – and that, one day not too far away, I’m going to read a report in the Daily [...]

March 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rubbing it in …

Yesterday I was flicking through The Times newspaper and gave myself a bit of a fright. Well, Doctor Mark Porter – who is either their medical correspondent and/or a regular columnist on medical matters – did. In a piece entitled Paternal age could be an important factor in the health of your [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Why can’t I be left alone to be ancient and normal?

Every time the subject of sex is raised I know before I begin airing my opinions that I’m going to cop flak for coming across like an old fuddy-duddy. I’m therefore torn between resignedly just bowing to the inevitable, trying to deflect the incoming by admitting the charges before the [...]

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

What men don’t understand

Inevitably upon a daily basis there is a ton of stuff in the media of doubtful use to anyone, but just occasionally something comes along and makes me laugh (nearly out loud). Which is why I’m sharing it with Rust readers today – DAILY [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Lott to talk about

Sometimes one comes across a piece in the media that is so deep-felt and searingly honest, so potentially self-lacerating and ‘out there’, that you cannot help but feel sympathy for both the author and the other parties involved. Here’s one I came across today on the website of [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Press and responsibility

I don’t know where we are on the second part of the Leveson Inquiry – is it going ahead or not? My impression was that – after all the shenanigans, hoo-haa, ridicule and celebrity interventions that had attached themselves to the first part – even Lord Justice Leveson had [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Saying goodbye

Two funerals in the past fortnight for your author and as a direct result therefore also as few reflections upon mortality and life. As it happens, I was attending the first of them – of someone I barely knew – only as a companion to someone else, but yesterday’s farewell was to a formidable [...]

February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

60th birthday at an iconic venue

Last night I attended the 60th birthday of an old friend held at the Clissold Arms Fortis Green, East Finchley. Not just another local. Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks lived opposite and the first and last musical sessions of the Kinks in 1960 an 1996 were played there. The room where we ate our [...]

February 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

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