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Flushed with heady enthusiasm as a result of gaining permission from the National Rust editor to post twice in twenty four hours, today I report upon a golf match with my two brothers, the latest in a keenly-contested series that has been running since about 1968. It was undertaken at Goodwood [...]

Last night I attended the sixtieth birthday party of my brother at a tennis club he’d hired for the purpose. It wasn’t actually his birthday – that had occurred a month previously – but presumably this was the first and/or most convenient date upon which his chosen venue had next been [...]

One of the few plusses of sliding beyond a certain age is that, whatever your views, they tend to become more strident and either black or, alternatively, white. I find that my youthful wishy-washy liberal desire to see all sides of every argument has tended to recede into the rear-view mirror as I [...]

Yesterday’s Coalition government reshuffle was described as many things, but most consistently as a means of establishing the team that David Cameron feels can win the Tories next year’s General Election. On that subject, for me, the jury is still out. It’s far easier to list the reasons [...]

I awoke this morning ruminating upon the vicissitudes of growing old. Partly this was the result of spending another six hours of fun out upon the water yesterday, watching keel boats racing in a regatta, at times having to ‘manage’ my own mobility issues caused by an arthritic hip. As my three [...]