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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

Another staging post is reached

This week, some two years and seven months after suffering what appears to have been a self-inflicted catastrophic onset of osteoarthritis in my hip whilst playing golf, I went for a pre-op assessment in advance of my date with the knife for a hip replacement in July. By ‘self-inflicted’ I mean [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast …

I’m currently staying with my elderly father, primarily engaged upon combining mowing the lawn in between the rain showers and watching sport on television. On Friday we watched an hour or two of the first cricket Test Match between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley – with eight wickets down, [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mind at rest at last

And so yesterday to Soho, one of my familiar haunts of my yesteryear career, for lunch. In days of yore at one stage the Gay Hussar in Greek Street was practically a staff canteen and I (no gourmet I hasten to add) was occasionally taken down the road to L’Escargot, where the legendary Elena [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of things to come

In an otherwise unremarkable day, yesterday I filled up my car with fuel and – in the course of doing errands and seeing people – I ended up in Bicester, twelve miles or so up the M40 beyond Oxford, visiting my daughter and her partner for a pizza meal and general catch-up. I’m not quite sure [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

A ‘nothing’ day with something

Yesterday promised and then delivered bright warm sunshine and I awoke facing nothing more than an in-tray full of correspondence, perhaps a phone-call or two to make and then maybe a trip to the health club at some point in the late afternoon. Then two telephone calls caused things to change. The [...]

April 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pick and disconnect

M& S is generally regarded as a store in decline from its halcyon days of being the flagship retail, high street outlet. Several reasons are suggested for this: its failure over the last few years to create and deliver popular lines of ladies fashion; its internet resource; problems of [...]

March 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s not as bad as you think

Roughly about twice every winter I reckon to catch a cold – or is it a dose of the ‘flu? I don’t suppose it matters which. When I was working, I very rarely took time of work for such occurrences. I don’t like being ill and I’d rather be ‘doing something’ than not, so carrying on [...]

March 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

You’re lucky I’m here at all

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. With a very welcome small amount of free time on my hands this week I had planned nothing more than to camp myself in my council library’s ‘Local Studies’ section and research stuff (we anoraks do). I did two days of that on Monday and [...]

March 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pause for thought

Over the weekend, roughly two and a half years since my sudden arrival of my hip’s osteoarthritis, a copy of a letter from my intended surgeon to my GP flopped through my letter box onto the corridor floor. It contained references such as ‘he limps, gets pain most of the time and has difficulty [...]

February 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

I should no doubt begin by apologising for returning to a subject that I have blogged about previously, but that done, I am going to proceed anyway. One of the bug-bears of life for anyone of mature years is modern technology. I am perhaps not best placed to complain because technology and I have [...]

February 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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