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Everyone’s at it (“oh no they’re not!”)

It seems close to a truism to state that every generation lives within the prevailing sexual laws, morals and social niceties of its own era. Take Britain for example – and my apologies for the imminent sweeping generalisations – King Henry VIII plainly ‘put it about a bit’. In the [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

What makes the world go around

The thing that amazes me about the Establishment and politicians is that things never change. In recent months I’ve just been getting on with my life, watching the world go by in the background, but I guess the fact is, as someone once said – I thought it was John Lennon in his lyrics to [...]

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coping with things

Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A fitting prelude to the Six Nations Grand Slam decider

On Thursday this week (17th March), as part of the Rugby Football Union’s Great War Commemorations, the FRU and the French Rugby Federation – together with the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the French Commission for the Centenary – organised a ceremony at the Tomb of The Unknown [...]

March 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A moment in time

Yesterday morning I set off for two hours’ research in my local municipal library on my latest project. As I arrived I came upon a scene that could have been potentially disruptive to my cherished plan – on one side of the room one of the regular female members of staff was conducting a ‘show [...]

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Answering Ireland’s call – but which one?

Sometimes one spots an article in the national media that is not only enlightening and informative and actually makes one sit up and think. Here’s a link to one from Robert Fisk, who normally covers things connected with politics and conflict in the Middle East, on the centenary celebrations [...]

January 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Flame and Citron

A topic that comes up regularly on the Rust is how we oldies never appreciate the full potential of our computerised appliances. Some time ago I acquired a state of the art Smart television. The installer explained how I could do my emails on it but I confess it all went over my head. Recently [...]

December 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Peake of achievement

Yesterday, almost by chance, I watched the take-off of the Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that took with it the European Space agency British astronaut Major Tim Peake to a rendezvous with the International Space Station. I had been out shopping and, upon returning, [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nuremberg 70 years on

70 years ago the Nuremberg trial took place. To constitue a tribunal from the diverse legal systems of the 4 Allies – France, Russia, UK and USA – so quickly was a considerable achievement and it was sad it did not endure as an international court of justice . Winston Churchill in [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

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