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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 travails of my printer and modern consumerism

Although frustration in the digital age is a common topic on the Rust, here I will put it in the context of modern consumerism. It’s all to do with my Canon Printer which about a month ago only copied and printed in blank. At first I thought the cartridges needed replacement. First point: [...]

September 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

Two unexpected flight experiences in one day

Sometimes odd or extraordinary things happen to you where you least expect them. Yesterday was a case in point for me. My latest fitness (that could alternatively read as “futile attempt to ward off the ravages of time”) regime – like all my previous equivalents – involves setting [...]

August 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

All things come to pass

The Rust enjoys a justified reputation for fearless reporting of difficult subjects, amongst which the vicissitudes and inconveniences that attend those of us beyond the first flush of youth can sometimes loom large. It fell to the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) to describe the state [...]

July 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach …

Regular Rusters may be aware that – possibly in part as a gesture of defiance and/or general “raging against the dying of the light” – from time to time I undertake periods of what might properly be described as regular physical activity but I prefer to pretend are “fitness campaigns”. [...]

July 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

I’m a travelling man

Despite still not yet being restored to a position where I can drive on the roads of the UK, despite having served my sentence of six months’ disqualification for amassing 12 speeding penalty points (since when I have not yet been able to find an insurance broker or company that will insure me), [...]

June 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Competence and standards in the modern world

These days – where this be a sign of the times or not – this organ feature on its pages tales of contributors or others who run into stark examples of modern “craziness”; complex official administrative or bureaucratic red tape that – for the average Joe in the street –  hinders [...]

May 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Modern life

One of the characteristics of my new life in the country down in the south east of England – first amongst which was always going to be the joy of quitting “the smoke” for the quietness and ease of life in an agricultural setting – are the regular reminders, some of them significant and [...]

May 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Back in training – yet another first report

In my more self-centred moments I’ve been happy to admit to myself that I’ve enjoyed a fairly active and sporty life. I wouldn’t try to kid Rusters. Although I loved watching and taking part in sports and spent most of my misspent youth and later life playing games and and/or competing in [...]

April 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Longines watch

On the occasion of our silver wedding anniversary my wife Megan presented me with a Longines watch. It has always been my favourite luxury watch marque. My late father had three. He had a cunning ruse of using his own watchmaker to service them but, when we came to have one valued, the assessor [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

The ironies of football success and fan devotion

Some of the most notable aspects of President Putin’s decision that Russia should invade Ukraine in furtherance of some ludicrous geo-political scheme to “restore” its supposed previous position in the scheme of things can be filed under the heading of “Unintended Consequences”. I won’t [...]

March 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

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