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Good old Sussex by the Sea

Yesterday I awoke to the most beautiful dawn of vivid blues and pinks over the sea. I drove over the glorious South Downs and did some early morning shopping in the picturesque village of Rottingdean. I thought of those London commuters pasty-faced, inhaling foul air struggling to work they do not [...]

November 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

That Winning Feeling

This is not my favourite time of the year when the missus does our household budget and like some nervous government Minister I anxiously await to hear what my department will be allocated. I am definitely treated as a provider not a cost centre. It was therefore unfortunate both for him and me [...]

November 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Swansea 0 Brighton 1

After this away win, the second such in row, Brighton are in eighth place. Carry on like this and we will be in the Europa League. The fans are grounded enough to confine their hopes to the speedy amassing of 40 points, 25 to go. Next Monday week after the international break – yet another [...]

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

If you can’t beat em, app em

A common theme of the Rust is the difficulty we oldies face in the techno society where it is assumed everyone has a smartphone and knows and wants to use it. I have mentioned in the past that the parking machines in Hove are now not coin-friendly but operated via an app. This is unfair to those [...]

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

My Sporting Weekend

There is probably only one golfer on the planet who can be 6 shots ahead off the field going into the last round of the WGC Champions event in Shanghai and still lose and his name is Dustin Johnson. When I awoke at 7, you could not get a bet on Justin Ross as he was so far behind DJ who was 1-4 [...]

October 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Bolton1

Many seasons ago in the grim years of bottom tier football I attended a game with John Mitchell, one of our 1975 FA Cup run heroes, and a personal one of mine. He assessed the team and said “The problem here is that they are not enough players giving a consistent performance. We had [...]

October 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Thank you for your music, Benny Andersson

In the arts section of the Rust we have our own debates and one is that because an artist is popular that should consign him per se to a negative critique. Whether it’s Melanie Gay extolling the story-telling of Daphne du Maurier, or Alice Mansfield being inspired by Ken Howard’s [...]

October 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Goal/Michael Donald

What did Dick Nanninga and Jorge Brown achieve which Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona did not? Answer: score in a World Cup Final. In this  book, photographer and writer Michael Donald interviews and photographs those alive of the 54 scorers who have done so. It [...]

October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Sporting Weekend

For once I had an enjoyable and successful sporting weekend. Both the USPGA and European tours provided me with winners – Justin Thomas and Sergio Garcia – but not after some drama. Justin Thomas was the favourite for the tourney played in South Korea as part of the Asian swing. I enjoy [...]

October 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Party

Older Rusters and readers may remember The Wednesday Play an often obscure dramatic venture into the avant garde on BBC. I felt the same slightly bored detachment that I experienced watching it as I did  during The Party. This might be because it was filmed in black and white and set in the [...]

October 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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