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Charity begins at home

Yesterday, whilst I was continuing my four-day stay in the country, my host (an elderly relative) suddenly announced that he had decided to attend a service at his local church – thereby resuming his regular Sunday routine after a gap of about four months. Long ago he stopped going to the Matins [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to Blighty

Yesterday I and three family members, one a cousin who has lived in North America for the past forty years, returned to Blighty after a four-day tour of WW1 battlefields and cemeteries for which our guide was fellow Ruster Henry Elkins. The trip served us well on two counts – firstly, the [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another brave new world

For the past week Sky News has been running a series of reports on the rapid and ongoing development of ‘smart’ robots, thereby prompting a discussion upon the potential threat to jobs represented by the possibility that one day there’ll barely be a reason for human beings to work at all [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sticking to a hard line

Just occasionally one comes across a piece in the media that makes you think, irrespective of where you stand politically and/or in terms of religious belief (or lack of it). Throughout recent history there have been continuous internal interpretation discussions/arguments going on between [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

The eagles have landed but (just) remain in touch

Having yesterday forsaken the drudgery of Britain for a week’s recuperation sampling the delights of the Tuscan/Umbrian border with my husband and three other couples, regular Rust readers may react with a variety of emotions to the news that I spent the early evening contemplating the novelty of [...]

August 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming to the point

Without doubt the world has always been obsessed with sex, probably because it has needed to be – why else would God or Nature have given every species (well, perhaps bar the panda if some zoologists are to be believed) such a strong desire to mate and perpetuate itself? I found myself [...]

August 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Coming out of the woods with my hands up

There have been reports in the media this week detailing the findings of a YouGov poll on sexual preferences released last weekend – including the fact that almost a quarter of Brits (23%) would not regard themselves as exclusively heterosexual, a figure rising to 49% amongst those aged [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Surveys may come and go

We’re at the back end of what is known as the media ‘silly season’, but there still seems to be some life yet in the dying embers. Hot on the heels of this week’s revelations that bacon, sausages – and all the other foods that for three decades and more have been blamed for causing the [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

The nuts and bolts of sexual attraction

I believe that it was that film star Paul Newman, well-known for his marital fidelity to second wife Joanne Woodward, who first coined the immortal phrase “Why go out for a hamburger when you have a steak at home?” but recent media reports, here in the form of Christopher [...]

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Family complications

Yesterday – Sunday – my sister rang shortly after 10.00am. “Have you spoken to Dad today?” “No – why do you ask? “Because I’ve tried to call him this morning, he’s not answering …” In another situation one might have been referencing déjà vu, or possibly the [...]

August 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

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