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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

Christmas fun

Yesterday we popped across London to join a Christmas Day gathering that became one of the most enjoyable of its kind I can recall in recent times. As a group we have a had a number of family health issues in the past twelve months – and also a wedding – and yet the schedule unfolded in as [...]

December 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical matters again

Sometimes I frighten myself with how blasé I am regarding medical matters and my own body. I used to be terminally squeamish with anything too gruesome or detailed about other people’s illnesses, diseases or injuries. For a long while I was prone to feeling a mounting queasiness whenever people [...]

December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

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