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The sporting facts of life

Yesterday there was a bit of a hoo-hah at Edgbastion during Sri Lanka’s 6 wicket ODI victory which took them to a 3-2 series win. Sri Lankan bowler Sachithra Senanayake ran out England’s Jos Buttler for 21, when he moved out of his crease at the non-striker’s end, by breaking the wicket as he [...]

June 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Champions League

For once I found myself in agreement with a Mourinho post-match comment. He said games turn on incidents as much as tactical systems. Courtois made a brilliant save for Atletico Madrid and then they scored. Much has been said of Bayern Munich being less effective with the possession game of Pep [...]

May 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Who would have guessed it?

Yesterday my father and I lunched on the edge of the Goodwood estate in West Sussex in a party of four. Whilst I was driving him to the engagement he recounted a story that I had not heard previously. On the occasion in question, in the late 1960s, as a relatively youthful partner in his [...]

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Betting shops

Interested by the story that betting shops face closure because of a new tax, I visited one in Marylebone High Street. The high street is a combination of stores like Waitrose,Tesco and Boots and smaller shops  like Fromagerie  for cheese and Ginger Pig for meat, as well as numerous restaurants. [...]

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Making a choice about the past

An opportunity arose yesterday that has left me on the horns of a dilemma, as I shall now explain. I happen to possess two email addresses, the second set up a while back specifically as an intended ‘business’ version. Since then, as it happens, I have had precious little business to conduct [...]

April 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The importance of keeping up

As we grow older, we have to come to terms with the eternal truth that ‘standing still’ is not an option for the human race. You have to keep moving, simply to stay in touch with developments in fashion, technology and society itself. To stop doing so – whether by accident or design [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Was it really that uncool?

At National Rust we’re hot upon observing what’s happening in modern life and how people ‘over a certain age’ react to it. In contrast, however, here’s a YouTube link to a fun video piece currently doing the rounds in which modern kids react to an iconic piece of [...]

April 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

… One step back

Continuing National Rust’s monitoring of all things related to sport and performance-enhancing drugs, today we note the announcement that Veronica Campbell-Brown has appealed successfully against her ban for a finding of HTC (a diuretic) in her urine in May 2013, due to errors in the testing [...]

April 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Learning something new

Yesterday turned out to be exhausting. First I collected my brother on Putney Heath and then drove to the coast to join a lunch my father had organised with his cousin and her partner at a hotel near Chichester. The event passed off most satisfactorily. Being on alert for family nostalgia and [...]

April 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Timeless

Here’s an example of how the internet gives newspapers worthwhile opportunities that the mere printed page cannot, the subject being a delightful time-lapse video of a girl going from babyhood to the age of fourteen – as available on today’s website of the DAILY/SUNDAY [...]

April 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

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