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Norman Hunter

I am afraid that the passing of Norman Hunter did not generate the type of feeling that John Pargiter expresssed over Doug Sanders. Norman Hunter belonged to a school of defenders and defending that was prevalent in the late 60s and early 70s. They  were brutal and intimidatory. All the big clubs [...]

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Doug Sanders RIP

I am not one for watching replays of golf tourneys – you know the result and nothing to bet on. Golf does not need spectators in the way football does, indeed some players might welcome the absence of raucous spectators such as you find towards the end of the final day on the US PGA. So I [...]

April 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Pasta Evangelist

We restaurant critics are a redundant breed. What I would give for those expensive wine lists and entrees I have panned. A friend of mine recommended an acceptable substitute. It’s a food delivery company called Pasta Evangelist. They change the menu every week, you order fresh pasta and [...]

April 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Trace Elements/Donna Leon

Donna Leon is an American crime writer who has spent much of her life in Venice and now lives in Switzerland. She has written several detective novels set in Venice  featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti and this is the latest. A woman is dying of cancer in a hospice and confides her husband’s [...]

April 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

A surprising shop

I was dreading my weekly shop at my local supermarket. I don’t like it at the best of times as they have little fresh food outside fruit and veg, the clientele are rather aggressive, they play music loudly and the staff are cliquey. So the notion of queuing for an hour or so filled me with [...]

April 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

An invitation to a virtual lunch

“The Virus, self-isolation and virtual” are the contemporary buzzwords. I received an invitation for a”virtual cricket lunch” on Zoom. Time, dress even matters to be discussed were specified. I did not accept this invitation but I did have a good story for it which I will share with our [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Poirot

On the Rust many of us have our pet television programmes to see us through lockdown. Ivan dotes on University Challenge where tonight the semi-final is contested. I am watching Poirot faithfully every weekday evening on ITV3. My late mother was a devotee but I cannot recall watching the series [...]

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Virtual reality v actuality

I would like to start a new Rust debate of virtual reality, which I will call virtuality, against actuality. In a recent article in The Spectator Martin Gayford considered this as museum and art galleries shut down, then offered the possibility of viewing their art on line. He felt a photograph of [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cosi Fan Tutte/streamed from Royal Opera House

As part of the collective arts effort to continue to operate in the face of social distancing and then the lockdown, the Royal Opera House are streaming opera on Friday night. Last night was Cosi Fan Tutte, the last co-operation of Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Ponte. Opera goers and lovers [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Printer Scam

It  is assumed that everyone has a printer and it works. A few days ago this sign appeared on my printer. I could not find the manual so I googled the error. I discovered from a video that the manual recommends one thing – repair or replace – but the clever user found a way that you [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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