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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

Turning back time (not)

I didn’t watch yesterday England’s 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania yesterday because I was on my way to the gym and wasn’t that interested. Call me old-fashioned in this era when FIFA want 128 or something nations to play in the World Cup Finals but, for me, in prospect any England [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

A reunion lunch and afterwards

Yesterday I had lunch with Bill, one of my old golfing partners, whom I hadn’t seen for about four years. The parting of the ways was originally prompted by a lunch at which our group of four regulars sat down and took a decision to give up our club memberships simultaneously. We had concluded [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The eyesight conundrum

Yesterday – some six months after I received a reminder from my local high street chain – I toddled along for my latest eye test, my two previous ones having been in 2014 and 2011 (as I learned minutes into my exam). Now in my mid-sixties I have had a so-so relationship with eye tests and [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dentistry and cars

Yesterday I was in the absurd position of having to give up a day of my life in order to spend seven hours travelling to the south coast essentially to take my elderly father to a half-hour appointment at his local dentist. This state of affairs had arisen because – although we had specified to [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

You never quite know what you’ve got

Serendipity is a wonderful thing and today I wish to bring Rust readers the joys of a true story. I have lived in my current abode in the quiet suburbs of south-west London for over twenty years. During this period I have been in the habit of going across the road to my local newsagents shop to [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week Two)

And so, about a fortnight in and probably inevitably, we get to the first real hiccup in my new 2017 personal fitness regime. Last week for reasons beyond my control I had first to spend 36 hours in the country visiting family and then attend a bit of a blow-out meal where copious amounts of [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week One)

Although it has been only six days since I began my new fitness campaign, I deliberately weighed in yesterday because it was a Monday and (for me, like most people) the first day of a new week. Thirteen stone ten, which means I have lost just two pounds. To remind you of the basics – food (and [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

It had to happen one day

Morning! Ingolby here. When I posted my blog yesterday, probably to their relief, I promised readers that I would be reporting upon progress on my 2017 fitness regime on a weekly basis. I therefore apologise for putting my head above the parapet quite so swiftly (only 24 hours later). On that [...]

January 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fitness campaign starts here

We’re at that time of year again – New Year inevitably equals a looking back at our pigging out over the festive season (when we all ‘let go’ food and drink-wise because – as we intend to really sort ourselves out over the next twelve months – we may as well enjoy ourselves one [...]

January 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The passing of Time

You might regard this as hypocritical or contradictory, but as someone who claims he lacks personal vanity, as I get older I find that my willingness to attend reunions – be they of school old boys, former work colleagues, or the usual round of funerals, wakes and thanksgiving services – [...]

December 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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