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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

Spoiling a good walk

In twenty-five days’ time Bernhard Langer will turn sixty years of age. About a week ago he won a record tenth title on the PGA Tour by annexing the Senior PGA Championship, eclipsing the nine won by Gary Player, who will be 82 in November. It’s all right for some – but this much I know. [...]

August 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing gold

Yesterday I visited Old Thorns Golf & Country Estate in Hampshire in order to play a round of golf with the three old reprobates that I played with regularly in one combination or another for about a decade and a half from my early forties. My early forties were a long time ago – looks, [...]

July 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

This shoulder of a giant doesn’t need standing upon

Staying in the country over the weekend, on Saturday in perfect weather conditions we joined a party that took a motor launch out of harbour and across the Solent to drop anchor off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. Our purpose was no more than to enjoy a birthday picnic lunch and watch some of the [...]

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Treating triumph and disaster just the same

Yesterday I travelled to the Pre-Operation Assessment centre at the hospital where I had my hip replacement operation last year, having been requested to do so in order to take further part in the research project which I had consented to join shortly before my operation took place. Regular readers [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

It never rains but it pours

Yesterday was largely taken up with travelling to the designated medical centre for an appointment for a screening offered to me (as someone over the age of 65) by the NHS that is designed to provide an early warning sign – if any be detected – of a potential future abdominal aortic [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to the tee

As the PGA tournament began at Wentworth yesterday two other golfers continued their attempts to return to the fray. Whilst Tiger Woods wisely announced his intention to take his time following his latest back surgery, in scorchingly hot conditions I took another step on the road back to the top [...]

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of getting used to it

The Rust’s go-to readership demographic rapidly becoming polarised around ‘senior citizenship’ status, it is perhaps only natural that occasionally we concentrate upon subjects and obsessions that tend to occupy us oldies. Today I noticed a report by Ben Spencer, medical correspondent of the [...]

May 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Strange times and indeed a strange world

Yesterday (7th May) I followed my habitual Sunday morning routine of watching the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 from 9.00am followed immediately by Nicky Campbell’s weekly audience debate show The Big Questions an hour later – whilst flicking through The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

May 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Lost in translation (or something)

Last night I was ‘saved’ at the last minute from having to go to the gym – even after I had changed into my sports kit for the purpose – by Janis, the Ukrainian who runs my local general store [I’m still not sure, or have forgotten, whether his name is pronounced as written or whether it [...]

April 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Walking back to happiness (as Helen Shapiro once sang)

At the beginning of the year – approaching six months after my hip replacement operation, the point at which medical savvy had it that someone in my position should ordinarily be ‘back to normal’ – I made a commitment to both my regular Rust readers that I would provide updates from [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

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