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Hemingway/BBC 4

A new Ken Burns documentary is worth waiting for though not worth missing England v Germany as it clashed. You know that the production values will be high and he will lay out the facts in a non-judgemental way. By contrast the Channel 4 type of documentary, normally on the royals, will be more of [...]

July 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

An occupational hazard

Regular readers will be aware that my relationship with the speed limits displayed upon the roads of Britain has been slightly less than perfect during the fifty-plus years since I passed my driving test. Not to beat about the bush, it is fair to state that during the course of this period I have [...]

June 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

A day by the seaside

Yesterday I visited my newly acquired beach hut on my own for the first time. Two previous visits to the beach hut on West Wittering beach were on a Saturday with my handyman.  As these were on a weekend the beach was extremely crowded. The West Wittering beach website informs that the beach can [...]

June 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Black cab v Uber

In the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver about urban alienation the Presidential candidate Charles Palantine rather condescendingly praises taxi driver Travis Bickle for his metropolitan knowledge. Personally I find most taxi drivers  will offer their opinion whether you praise them or not. On the [...]

June 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

I guess you could make it up …

As, apparently right on cue, summer’s weather arrived in the UK last weekend it occurred to me that the Global Covid-19 pandemic is going to be dominating the news pages for a long while yet. During my occasional excursions out into the wider world of shopping and other “normality” since [...]

June 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Getting a grip upon a serious problem

From time to time Rust contributors blast away on this organ against the vast and ever-growing army of cyclists who in these politically-correct times are given far more support and encouragement than they deserve, not least the “cycle lanes” increasingly bringing traffic in our cities to a [...]

May 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

Vacation or staycation?

It’s been a most confusing time for the traveller and therefore the industry. You simply do not know whether foreign travelling is feasible. Before the Indian variant came along it seemed that on or after June 21st all restrictions would be lifted. Of course you can go to a green light country [...]

May 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

Upon coming out of it

As we come back from lockdown to “normality” some of us have had time for reflection as to how the past twelve months has affected the general public and ourselves in particular. If I’m honest, at the beginning – both in prospect and reality – I tended to be in tune with another resident [...]

May 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

Get a life, everybody!

Today I’m coming out of the closet – if that is the appropriate phrase – as a curmudgeonly old fascist git. We hear and read plenty these days about how “woke” the modern world has become (or is it just the Millennials, or even our “Generation X” youngsters as a group, that is being [...]

March 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Another milestone on the road back to where we were?

This is an important day. At some point the Prime Minister is going to formally announce his heavily-leaked “road map” by which the UK will gradually emerge from Covid-19 Lockdown 3 and ascend to the sunny uplands of its post-Brexit prosperity and world domination. Or possible not. Overnight I [...]

February 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

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