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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

Broadcasting – excellent and very, very average

Last night, after a fairly busy day culminating in making myself an evening meal, I decided on a whim to retire to bed just after 8.30pm for no other reason that I was weary and felt like it. It proved to be a happy move because, quite by chance, I had only just missed the beginning of what turned [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Standing up and being counted

Today the media is featuring reports upon a scientific study commissioned by Pubic Health England and the Active Working Community Interest Company, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which recommends that office workers should spend two hours – and preferably four – on their [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s all getting too much …

Having proved to my total satisfaction on Wednesday that taking one’s car for granted is a foolhardy conceit, my nightmare of a week continued yesterday with a weather forecast of constant rain all day … a slew of scheduled family commitments in central London … and then a need to pick up a [...]

May 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

The best laid plans of mice and men …

I have been a member of the Automobile Association since 1978 and – as far as I can recall – have had little need to resort to calling upon their assistance. Perhaps half a dozen times in thirty-seven years? One of the oddities of ‘the system’ is that, from about 1990, I took advantage of [...]

May 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Right up themselves

Actors and performers generally are a bit like normal people only not quite. Back in the day – and maybe this remains true today for all I know – it used to be said that, at any given moment, 90% of actors were out of work. Equity (the actors’ union) is in a not-dissimilar position to the [...]

May 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

He’s made a big mistake

Right – that does it! It’s war! Yesterday I went up to the health club again in the mid-afternoon. I looked at my ‘watch’-type thing that tells me not only the time, but also how many steps I’ve taken and calories I’ve burned off each day and it said “1613” (i.e. 4.13pm) as I [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Triumph, at last!

Yesterday, over a week after I last visited, I went to the health club in the late afternoon. Having devised a fitness plan consisting of ‘the bleedin’ obvious’ (‘Eat better and less, plus take exercise’), my failure to go to the gym for the above-mentioned length of time had been [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

How it comes across

Yesterday I went to my health club in the cause of my fitness regime – well, I say that, but in reality it is a weight-loss/vanity campaign. It is also one that is becoming increasingly frustrating because, despite my best efforts, I have stalled at the same weight for the past three weeks. [...]

April 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Am I going loopy?

This potentially either demonstrates the state of my humdrum little life or, alternatively, the kind of obsession that invade the minds of those who begin taking exercise regularly – but I’ve now gone beyond getting irritated by those I’ve mentioned on this website previously, viz. the [...]

April 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fitness report

I thought I’d write another post today about my arthritic hip which would include updating my National Rust readers how things are progressing with my New Year’s fitness campaign, designed in part to assist or stave off the hip’s problems and potential eventual replacement operation. For few [...]

March 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

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