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The internet has a lot to answer for

It occurs to me that a feature of the internet and its attendant modern social media phenomenon is that most people over the age of fifty have a difficulty to some degree or another in understanding what on earth is going on and why. I know I do. Furthermore, anyone who claims different is being [...]

November 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

I’m probably missing the point, but …

Yesterday Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt of the Metropolitan Police faced the media to issue a public apology to the world as part of an attempt to bring to an end to the ‘scandal’ of a series of undercover policemen having intimate sexual relationships with unsuspecting women [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping up with girls

A couple of weeks ago there were a number of stories in the media about a new musical – featuring choreography by Arlene Phillips – being built around the 1970s magazine for young teenage girls called Jackie. Some of you may remember it as a ‘feel good’ publication all about the latest [...]

November 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s the 21st Century after all …

We’re all products of our own age, or perhaps that should be ‘… of our own lives between the ages of 18 and 24’? I like to think that I’m a liberal (with a small ‘L’) sort of a guy who embraces the proposition that we should all be able to do exactly what we want, provided of course [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Time and tide wait for no man

It was my 64th birthday yesterday, deliberately built around a splendid lunch of boeuf bourguignon, alcohol, a log fire and watching the Rugby World Cup with my father. Shortly after midday we had a visit from a local lady who had dropped in to see my parent and cracked open a bottle of champagne [...]

November 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

An out of town diversion

This week found me staying overnight in the vicinity of Oxford for a meet with a pair of girlfriends with whom I share dimming but fond memories of borrowing and yore (“Can I borrow your shoulder-wrap/blouse/brooch/high-heels/boyfriend …?). This gathering of the distaff clans inevitably [...]

October 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to do it!

Continuing our time-honoured tradition of bringing interesting and/or significant items of public interest to readers of the Rust – well, that’s as good an excuse as any – this morning I thought I would provide a link to this vitally-important article that appears today on the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

How things worked out

For family reasons I had my son Barry staying with me over the weekend which was a rewarding experience as these days he lives abroad, often totally out of contact, and only makes two or three brief visits a year to these shores. By most standards he had a tough time of it as a kid. He was/is badly [...]

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Going back and learning stuff

Last night I attended a firm’s annual dinner with my father. It was a fun evening and ended up with several speakers in succession paying tribute to him on their hind legs, which was a somewhat surreal but welcome circumstance for me as a family member. Why? Well, because these were tales and [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Such is life …

One of the aspects about modern life that most often irritates me is the sheer numbers of people that exist and then on top, of course, the knock-on effects thereof. [Having opened with that sweeping statement, I perhaps need to qualify myself. I am not addressing the issues of the global size of [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

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