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Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Who are the stakeholders?

There was much coverage yesterday of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that the cost of child care is putting some families below the minimum wage. This follows hard on the comments of Andrea Leadsom that because of her children she is more of a stakeholder in society than Theresa May. I found [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Feeling good about giving stuff up

Thinking back now, I think it was about January 2009 – not long after my fifty-seventh birthday – that I stopped worrying about modern technology. Or as the young of today might more accurately put it, finally gave up, let go, and stopped trying to keep up with it. The vehicle involved in [...]

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Family Occasion

Yesterday I went to 2 family celebrations: the first was a form of orthodox Jewish cocktail party, normally after the religious service called a kiddish, given by my niece to celebrate her latest child and a smaller family lunch given by the wife of my nephew. A big difference between Gentiles [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

A fun reunion

Five decades ago – whilst incarcerated in the countryside at public school – my boarding house was joined for a single academic year by an American. In the intervening years we have exchanged occasion letters and latterly emails and last week, when he came to London briefly, we took the [...]

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hold on a minute, ladies!

Here’s another blast on the trumpet against ‘the monstruous [sic] regiment of women’ [origin, out of copyright by now, John Knox 1558]. At the risk of outing myself as am antediluvian male misogynist stuck in the 1950s, I couldn’t help noticing overnight two examples in the media that [...]

June 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things don’t feel fair

Many years ago – no, make that many decades ago – I used to be a lawyer before I moved on to other things. As a result, although I retain a working understanding of the basic principles involved in areas of the law that I formerly practised in, I am more than prepared to declare upfront that my [...]

June 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buddy road chat

Twice this week I have been a passenger on long car journeys largely spent in conversation with a friend who was the  driver. There is  something about a such a journey that is conducive to a deeper conversation. In both cases the journeys were blighted by traffic jams that put at least another [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

As long as you’re still learning new things yourself …

They tell me that the saying “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” comes from a John Lennon lyric – a line from Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) from the former Beatle’s last album Double Fantasy in 1980 – but these days there are two principle means by which I [...]

May 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Whoever would ever have thought it?

[Disclaimer: There’s been a long-running in-joke on the Rust team for years about ‘filler’ media reports setting out supposed insightful findings about humanity, as discovered by obscure research teams in obscure universities around the world, usually via surveys they have conducted featuring [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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