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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 times I live in

THE STEPPING MACHINE Last night, after yet another day spent largely in front of a computer screen (for reasons of both necessity and choice) – bar one short trip by car for a food shop – at about 5.00pm I deliberately set off to stride up to my gym for a session intended to ‘blow the [...]

October 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another report from the exercise frontier

This is another in a sequence my occasional Rust posts reporting and commenting upon my late-life attempts (well, at 65 I don’t think I can qualify anymore as ‘middle-aged’) to improve the health-promoting aspects of my lifestyle habits via a self-devised dietary/fitness campaign. Firstly, [...]

October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The slippery pole

These days I no longer spend much of my time pondering upon the great mysteries of life, a fact that I tend to put down to the fact that – in my mid-sixties – if I haven’t worked them out by now, and were suddenly to find the ‘key’ to everything this time tomorrow, it wouldn’t matter a [...]

October 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The power of sleep

I make no apology for beginning this post with three quotations: “Life is a sexually-transmitted disease and the mortality rate 100%” [R.D. Laing]; “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” [Ernest Hemingway]; and “Early to bed and early to rise [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Glad that day is over

I would like to think through no fault of my own yesterday I had something of a frustrating day. Firstly, my fitness campaign has been going to pot recently. A fortnight ago I began my week weighing 12 stone 8 pounds – this down from 13 stone 12.2 pounds at the beginning of January – but over [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

M & S

I had an interesting lunch with Bob Tickler in which he expanded on his theory that an investor should understand both product and service as well as the financial state of a company. We discussed Marks and Spencers, now caught up by the online retailer ASOS. As part of my brief for another [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Monday shopping nightmare

On Monday of this week I went shopping at my local well-known supermarket store. I registered that the omens were not good the moment that I drove down the driveway to the car park and spied that it was packed with cars – and so it proved. I should add here the information that (and I do not [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reality and perception

Regular readers of the Rust will be aware that for many years now I have been interested in both the possibilities – and moral/ethical issues attendant upon – presented by the rapid advances being made in the fields of robotic science, artificial intelligence and computer-generated [...]

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

The joys of maturity

It so happens yesterday that I was engaged upon a schedule that saw me setting off from the south coast to London at sparrow’s first fart in the morning, spending much of the day in town and then returning to the coast in the early evening. As part of my general scheme, I first [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The sleeping giant awakes

At the clear and present risk of disappearing up my own fundament, today I am reporting upon the round of golf I played yesterday at the Surrey National golf course not far from either the M25 and the leafy suburbs of the concrete jungle that is Croydon or indeed the dormitory town where I lived [...]

August 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

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