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WRITE AROUND THE WORLD (BBC 4)

The last episode in this excellent series featured Andalusia and writings thereon. Throughout Richard E Grant has been a superb presenter: enthusiastic, well-informed and – above all – he does not get in between the viewer and the subject. Blessed with a beautiful voice his readings [...]

August 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

A sense of proportion, perhaps?

From time to time, it seems to me, events or developments both at home and around the world remind us of the variety and randomness of each individual’s life chances, opportunities and indeed whatever are deemed to be our “human rights”. In the past week I have seen – on the one hand [...]

August 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

A bleeping nuisance

My day yesterday began at 3.30am when I was rudely awaken by an insistent and atonal beep. I traced it to my smoke alarm though there was no smoke. Nowadays you do not get an instruction manual but have to google, which explained that the battery needed replacement. I thought it a simple job at [...]

August 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

An inconvenient development

Some regular Rusters will be aware of my occasional brushes with “the long arm of the law” over my tendency as a driver of motor vehicles to pay slightly more attention to the condition of Britain’s roads – and the activities of those using them – than I do to whatever “speed [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

In praise of Moeen Ali

Moeen Ali was once a batter whose route to the Test team was to improve his bowling. He was never quite an all rounder but nonetheless a key cog in the team. Moved up and down the order from one to nine and filling his boots in the white ball game, he lost interest in Test cricket but thank [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

A result

It’s not often I get a first and second in golf but I did so when Kevin Kisner won the Wyndham in the US PGA and Kevin Na finished second. As is always the case, I cannot claim I have a brilliant system – just that I read and follow the Racing and Football Outlook. Kevin Na It went to a [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Never going to say “I told you so”, but …

Here follow two reports spotted on the internet overnight relating to one of several ongoing Rust campaigns seeking to try and highlight the lack of common sense being applied to life as it is lived in the 21st Century with all its cow-towing to diversity, political correctness, [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Third day of the Test

As it will all about Joe Root – rightly so – I thought I might post more about the Lords experience from the debenture level. Admission is less of a palaver as the Covid restrictions have been eased and left at the discretion of the person. However you still have to show  your [...]

August 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Second day of the Test

I suspect that most of the media coverage will lead with Jimmy Anderson’s fifer. However – in true Rust left-field style – I would like to lead off with two people who did not make a mistake all day- umpires Michael Gough and Richard Illingworth. To call a LBW correctly, as they did [...]

August 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

First day of the Test

In the course of the day I was asked if any cricket ground compares to Lords and the simple answer is no. I like the cockpit that is Trent Bridge but the Oval is too cramped and the other Test grounds in the north have become soulless, more venues dedicated to cash generation than traditional [...]

August 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

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