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A family golf day

Yesterday I attended the 32nd annual golf tournament of a family I know well. It’s always played at Royal Ashdown Forest, a natural and beautiful course with no bunkers. Some 20 years ago I went there with my father. It proved to be one of his great golfing moments, perhaps even one of his [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Even Groundhog Days are different

Watching your own parent travel into old age is a strange process, a bit like looking down the list of notable people’s birthdays in the Times or the Telegraph, being surprised at how old some of the icons of your youth have become, or even marvelling that they’re still alive … and then [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tether-reaching

You’d think that once you’ve retired from the hurly-burly of working life you’re going to go one of two ways. If you’re the type that relies upon excitement, stimulation and the company of people, you may begin worrying that you’re going to lose out, get forgotten, lose touch and [...]

September 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of self-awareness

On Saturday I attended a family wedding in the Midlands. Only it turned out when we arrived that it wasn’t actually a wedding because that had taken place at least a week beforehand.  What we had actually been invited to [billed as a ‘Ceremony and Celebration’] might best be termed a summer [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A new one on me

As some who is rapidly approaching his eighth decade, I find that both instinctively and rationally (not necessarily at the same time) I am constantly adjusting my perspective on what is and is not important, relevant or worthy of my attention. There are some aspects of life that I like to think [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it will come to this

It is, of course, the duty of all Rust contributors to keep an eye open for items in the media that might be of interest – whether practical or just passing – to our readers. In that spirit, I feel justified in bringing to wider attention the following report by Shivali Best that [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Funeral for a friend’ s mother

Yesterday I went to the cremation and reception afterwards of the mother of a close friend of mine. I doubt if  I met her 10 times in her life, never visited her home, nor her mine but  that was not the point . It was the correct thing to do to pay my last respects and to be there for my friend. [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Something that didn’t smell quite right

Yesterday evening I made a journey into south-west London in order to have the latest in a lengthy line of ‘swift and cheerful’ catch-up early evening meals with my daughter at a local version of a well-known pizza chain establishment. Normally I bomb up to her place in Oxfordshire where she [...]

August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bedroom success

One of my father’s party-pieces was to declare to anyone who would listen – as often as not, female attendees at family functions or drinks – that “All I know is, I haven’t had my fair share …” (by which he was referring to sex). I well remember the occasion when he deployed it at a [...]

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another thing that goes around and comes around

When you’re in your sixties and one or both parents are still alive, the chances are that they’re close to or beyond the age of 90 – and therefore, inevitably, age-related issues are to the fore. The ironic aspect is that, when people ask me about – in my case – my father, I used to take [...]

August 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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