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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

Another stage along the route

I guess that some might take the view – given the Rust’s brief and readership (age) profile – that one day this was bound to happen, but today I follow my colleague Arthur Nelson’s tale of his brushes with the medical profession by posting about my own hospital appointment yesterday at [...]

January 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The decline of the High Street

Figures released by the British Retail Consortium show that the number of high street shoppers in December 2015 was 2.2% down and there was a comparable decline in November. The greatest threat is the internet, £1 out of £5 was spent on line and shopping there increased by 15%. Moving from the [...]

January 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

A rewarding family gathering

Since Tuesday 29th December I have been staying with my ancient father at his home on the south coast. On Wednesday evening my cousin Patrick – who is over from America with his wife – rang to announce that, having spent Christmas north of London with family, they had just returned to the [...]

January 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nobless oblige on film

Yesterday afternoon – because there was nothing else on television – I sat down with my 90 year-old father to watch the drama-documentary film The Queen [2006 – starring Helen Mirren, script by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Frears] on ITV1, with Martin Sheen in the main supporting [...]

December 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of nap-taking

My family sometimes josh me because for the last four years or so I have grown into the habit of retiring to my bed after lunch for a post-prandial nap. The official line being broadcast to the world behind my back is that it signals another step upon my journey into old age. From my perspective it [...]

December 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting out what you put in

After a period during which my arthritic hip and engagements diary have together conspired to prevent me having the time or indeed inclination to maintain my fitness campaign, I returned to the fray (and the gym) last week. It has been a bit of a ‘curate’s egg’ of a start … In the build-up [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another day passes

Having begun my umpteenth and latest (rather vague) ‘fitness and dietary’ regime about two weeks ago, yesterday afternoon I forced myself to go to the gymnasium for 90 minutes at about 4.30pm. I like to think I never shy of challenging myself when it comes to such matters so I hope you will [...]

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes it comes to this

Life is what it is and, of course, it touches every one of us. Even the royals go to the toilet. Every relationship has its ups and downs. We all fail upon any absolute standard of the ‘ideal’. We are all inconsistent, hypocritical, tell lies, fly off the handle and act irrationally at some [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Uber alles?

Chatting to Bob Tickler the other day on the topic of Internet v personal shopping, he mentioned to me that the council in Brighton are shortly going to decide whether to admit the private cab firm Uber to the city. Licensed taxi cabbies  are of course much against Uber. They argue that the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

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