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Winkworth Arboretum

I was probably two weeks late to appreciate the autumnal colours of the trees at Winkworth Arboretum near Godalming but still enjoyed yesterday the trails, views and colours. Laid down by a local doctor Wilfred  Fox at the start of the twentieth century and bequeathed to the National Trust [...]

November 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Traffic issues

I have not been having much luck recently whilst travelling in my car. Last Friday, having been detained on the south coast until mid-afternoon, I then embarked upon my drive home to south-west London – a trip I’d estimate I have undertaken in either or both directions well over a thousand [...]

October 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Great Dixter Gardens

Yesterday I visited Great Dixter Gardens. These are the brainchild of gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. I was disappointed. The first negative is that the Gardens are not that accessible. They are to be found to [...]

September 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Going off on one …

Having decided upon the subject of my post today – and still in the preliminary phase of contemplating its content – I became aware of the recurring issue that confronts every oldie commenting upon the world as it hurtles towards the future. Regular Rusters will be only too well aware of that [...]

July 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cruising takes a bruising

As our doughty UK businesses emerge from lockdown in order to take the country back into the bright sunny uplands of a post-Brexit, post-coronavirus world in which we start paying for the famously mega-big “unprecedented’ level of Treasury support that the Tory Government has thrown at [...]

July 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

My record has got stuck again …

Many Rusters will share my exasperation at the stupidities and frustrations of 21st Century life and nurse perfectly understandable nostalgia for the good old days of ‘brick’ mobile phones, flared trousers, Afro haircuts, audio cassettes and the classic Dukes of Hazzard television series. Last [...]

May 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Problems, problems, everywhere

Sailing folk are something of a breed apart for landlubbers like me. About ten days ago I was chatting with a pal of my late father’s whose son and family are – or had been – about a quarter into a four-year project to sail around the world, home-schooling their young children along the way. [...]

May 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another day gone

It’s getting tough out here in Lockdown-land. I don’t know what it’s like where other Rusters are living in self-isolation – and don’t get me wrong, we’re all in this together – but living in solitary confinement, which by personal choice I’ve been doing these past twenty years, is [...]

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Taking things in the round

As usual I spent a large proportion of yesterday listening to the BBC’s Radio Five Live in a variety of fashions. The most enlightening of these for me personally, being an oldie, was the moment that, when out in mid-afternoon on my “one per day” permitted exercise outing, complete with my [...]

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sometimes it comes to this

I once heard an interview in which the learned guest offered the statement “If you ask forty-two economists their view, you’ll get forty-two different answers”. Arguably – if you’re anywhere as cynical as I am – the logical extension of this dictum is the assumption that, if just [...]

January 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

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