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About Gerald Ingolby

Formerly a consumer journalist on radio and television, in 2002 Gerald published a thriller novel featuring a campaigning editor who was wrongly accused and jailed for fraud. He now runs a website devoted to consumer news. More Posts

The secret of male attractiveness

Everyone knows the allegedly true story – recounted by the man himself on a TV chat show, if my memory serves – of the time that a middle-aged male hotel employee brought some element of room service up to footballer George Best’s room and, surveying the evidence of what had plainly been an [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

I did okay, but not as well as I thought I would

Hello, it’s me again. I’m reporting in with progress post my hip replacement operation which took place in July – something I haven’t done in a while. In advance of undergoing the knife I had received medical opinion from all quarters that I should put off having a replacement for as long [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

An act of plucky Brit defiance hits its mark

[The events recorded in this post occurred yesterday and regular readers will be familiar with my suspicion that I am under constant surveillance by organs of the British Government in its attempt to persecute me for spurious driving offences, most particularly speeding on UK roads. For the above [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day 2

This week I went back for a final (‘signing off’) appointment with one of the team that did my hip replacement surgery three and a half months ago. It was relatively uneventful largely because, having pitched up for a previous appointment early in September, I had learned my lessons as regards [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Shush! Keep this to yourselves …

This morning, after undertaking a food shop designed to enable me to last at least three weeks without leaving the house, I am barricading my front door, refusing to answer my phone and just generally ‘lying low’. Attentive or regular Rust readers will know that I am one of not a small number [...]

October 31, 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

That’s it – I’m off!

Further proof that I am being hounded by Big Brother government authorities emerged over the weekend when out of the blue I received a personal notice of yet another alleged speeding incident caught by CCTV camera in west London. On the day in question I was pootling along on my way to a wedding in [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sorted!

In these uncertain times – I’ve just finished reading a scaremongering article on a newspaper website suggesting that climate change will have made the world unfit for human existence by 2050 – those of us who have reached retirement age, or indeed by choice and/or force of circumstance have [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

For those who may have not the slightest interest in hip replacement operations, this is probably the moment to move on to another item. Today I am simply posting one of my irregular blogs on the subject because today marks the completion of nine weeks since I had mine. In terms of formal contacts [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

They say pride comes before a fall, but I’m happy to record today that I now feel I’m ‘on the up’ as regards recovering from my hip operation (eight weeks ago this coming Friday). I won’t bother you with an exhausting recap. Suffice it to say that, after an initial period of making swift [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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