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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

Three steps forward and then … er … one going nowhere

By Friday afternoon this week it will have been exactly a fortnight since I had my hip replacement operation and my post today is a report upon how things have been going. This is not going to be heavy stuff – I’m nothing special in the category of those who have had hip replacements and I very [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Progress and a disease

Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk of about half a mile along the river from my home with my daughter, partly to ‘get some air ‘ (I had barely been out all day), partly to get some exercise, and partly to experiment with how far I had come in terms of general mobility since having my hip [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it

Well, that’s my hip operation and hospital-stay recovery over, and now I’m back at home feeling tired, battered but also happy to be less institutionalised than I was over the weekend. My days currently consist of four bouts of taking between 3 and 6 pills at a time during my waking hours (a [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s life

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? Well sometimes it comes true. After yesterday’s opener in what I had intended might be a gritty, blow by blow, series of reports from the front line by a gentleman of a certain vintage – plainly one a little beyond the [...]

July 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hip-(H)op

At about your breakfast time this morning I shall be driven by my daughter to a hospital in southern England in order to prepare for my long-anticipated hip replacement operation. It was about two-and-threequarter years ago now that, whilst temporarily and deliberately playing golf at high speed in [...]

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Resolution

Readers might be surprised that in a day of upheaval with myriad of challenges and maximum turbulence I should be writing on the ongoing problems of my tv reception but I don’t think I can add anything useful to the debate except it may not be over. Ireland and Denmark had second referenda on [...]

June 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Exasperation

One of the issues we often address on the Rust is the interference of the Internet and automatic voice response into customer relations. Yesterday I got no Sky signal which I attributed to the adverse weather. In such moments I fiddle with the cables loosely referred to as rebooting which normally [...]

June 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

A fun reunion

Five decades ago – whilst incarcerated in the countryside at public school – my boarding house was joined for a single academic year by an American. In the intervening years we have exchanged occasion letters and latterly emails and last week, when he came to London briefly, we took the [...]

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things don’t feel fair

Many years ago – no, make that many decades ago – I used to be a lawyer before I moved on to other things. As a result, although I retain a working understanding of the basic principles involved in areas of the law that I formerly practised in, I am more than prepared to declare upfront that my [...]

June 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

A questionable state of mind

Yesterday I continued my new fitness/dietary regime by going to the gym for the second day running. Hard-earned experience has taught me to avoid all diet fads and theories – fibres, carbs, good and bad types of fat, protein must be eaten, protein mustn’t be eaten, fruit or vegetable shakes, [...]

June 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

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