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1st day of Test: no new dawn, same old precipitation.

The first day at Lords is always a magical event. I always arrive early, not just to avoid the queues, but to take in the atmosphere and to look down at the sward of green and impressive modern and Victorian architecture. Ticket prices were not on my mind but by the end of an eventful day there was [...]

June 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

About Schmidt (2002)

Any doubts you might have about the greatness of Jack Nicholson as an actor would be dispelled by this film. He is never type-cast but his persona was more as rebel in confrontation. Here he plays Warren Schmidt, a retired actuary in Nebraska, who buys a mobile home with the intention of travelling [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Das Boot/third series

Last night Sky Atlantic began the third series of Das Boot. Originally an outstanding film which was hailed as one of the best films on World War Two in one recent poll, it then morphed into a tv series. It posed a problem on how sympathetically you dramatise a Nazi naval success that halted many [...]

May 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Two novels set in Florence: Angels of Mud & Still Life

As Venice is for painters so Florence has attracted writers: E. M Forster’s Room With a View and Alex Preston’s In Love and War to name but two. By happenstance the last two novels I have read were both set in post war Florence. Curious too with half the Rust team in Nice. The first – [...]

April 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

The complications of modern – and ancient – life

Today I dip my toe gingerly into potentially controversial waters as I express a certain sympathy with the plight of poor Northern Ireland Women’s manager Kenny Shiels. Rusters who follow the sport of football will be all too familiar with the incident which has propelled Mr Shiels on to the [...]

April 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Photo session at Hove & Peter Shilton Dinner

Yesterday was a full on sporting day with a photo session of our Players Club at Hove Cricket Ground and a football dinner at the RAC where Peter Shilton was the guest of honour. I arrived at Hove at 8-50. Although I turned 68 recently I still get a kick out of seeing the ground albeit empty. [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Communication in the modern era

Earlier this week I read somewhere that these days spoken phone calls are becoming less popular than alternatives such as texting, instant messaging or video calls. Apparently a new survey conducted for Sky Mobile found that 80% of people contacted said they preferred messaging or video calls to [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Anatomy of a scandal/Sarah Vaughan

I am reading Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan, a political thriller shortly to be dramatised on Netflix. It is not very good. Firstly the characters are flimsily based upon Boris Johnson/David Cameron (Oxford ex-Eton toffs) and a Conservative sex scandal – all familiar territory to [...]

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Longines watch

On the occasion of our silver wedding anniversary my wife Megan presented me with a Longines watch. It has always been my favourite luxury watch marque. My late father had three. He had a cunning ruse of using his own watchmaker to service them but, when we came to have one valued, the assessor [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

A Day at Plumpton Races

There is one factor that is not taken into account in the Great Rust Debate of TV versus actual watching of an event, namely getting out of your home. This I feel all the more after essentially being locked up for two years and watching sport with no one there, plus those depressing images daily [...]

March 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

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