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Fiorentina file : Fiorentina 0 Atalanta 0

I wish I could say something interesting about this goalless bore draw. Maybe it was the early start at 12-30 on a Sunday but the match never came to life. Fiorentina lie in the bottom half and there is widespread dissatisfaction that there has been little investment in new players especially as [...]

October 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cricketing lunch

Ivan Conway and I had a bet, not the Pargiter kind, that if either of our two teams – Middlesex or Sussex – won a trophy the unsuccessful supporter must host lunch. Ivan kindly invited me to the GB 1 fish restaurant at the Grand in Brighton yesterday Conversation soon turned from our [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Preston 2

When I got my pre-match call from John Pargiter for a betting tip, I had to tell him I did not feel confident about this fixture. Preston had had 4 consecutive goalless draws with us, beaten Aston Villa and we are going to be without our most influential player Berem Kayal till December after an [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice 2 Lyon 0

Michel de Vacri Lat night Nice beat Olympique Lyon 2-0 to increase our lead at the head of Ligue Une by 4 points and our best ever start with 7 wins and 2 draws out of 9 games. Lyon were once one of the powerhouses of French football, winning the championship seven years running, and are still a [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Struggling in the Internet world

One of the recurrent themes in the Rust is the difficulty we experience in a increasingly Internet reliant world. Over the last few days I have had some stressful occasions caused by Internet service. The first was the printing of some travel documents. In the good old days my travel agent would [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Room With A View/Theatre Royal Brighton

A literary memory from my school is a discussion on novelists in which the head master termed E. M Forster a “weak writer”. There was much consternation over this but it discoloured my appreciation of him. I have made various attempts to read A Room With a View with little success and [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

The bank of mum and dad

There was an interesting programme on pensions to the extent that anything on pensions can be interesting. See link here – PENSIONS The programme informed that that it’s no longer sustainable to pay out on pensions because of the longevity issue hence the pensionable age is being pushed [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /24 St Georges

One of the interesting aspects of a restaurant is how it deals with something unusual even a crisis. Thus it was that on Saturday a French girlfriend and I went to 24 St Georges in Kemp Town, Brighton. I had been there before and considered it okay but nothing brilliant. It’s a restaurant set [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Madrid: The History/Jules Stewart

One of the debates we have on the arts side of the Rust is kindle v book. It’s not either/or as many like me see the benefits of both. The kindle is transportable, downloadable and readable. Yet it has somehow taken some of the “connection” out of reading. Giving someone a [...]

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

A family golf day

Yesterday I attended the 32nd annual golf tournament of a family I know well. It’s always played at Royal Ashdown Forest, a natural and beautiful course with no bunkers. Some 20 years ago I went there with my father. It proved to be one of his great golfing moments, perhaps even one of his [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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