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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

A fond farewell

Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere continues and my father and I have now developed a working pattern. At night we retire to our rooms at about 9.00pm, having agreed to meet in the foyer beside the breakfast area at 7.30am the next morning. The next morning at 6.50am he calls me to [...]

November 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another hop completed

After another Singapore Airlines flight, this of six or seven hours’ duration – I cannot remember which because, with the three (or is it four?) hours difference between Singapore and Victoria, it’s very easy to get in a muddle – we arrived at Melbourne and made out way to [...]

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Roger, over and out …

I guess it was inevitable. After two full days in Singapore – the first of which we spent being driven around on personal guided tours and then having a slap-up meal at a famous private club … and the second of which we spent visiting the Bay South version of the epic Gardens by the Bay [...]

November 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming back to earth

I am a chastened gentleman. There is nothing quite like a well-appointed bathroom facility in a double room hotel suite in a foreign land to bring a chap crashing back to earth. Before making my way to my computer to compose this post report this morning I had occasion to visit said facility in [...]

November 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cruising with Scarlet at 45,000 feet

Having departed on Monday from Heathrow for a ten-day tour of Singapore and Australia acting as wingman for my aged father, he and I duly reached our first port of call yesterday after a flight of thirteen hours and have spent our time since resting and acclimatizing ourselves. It is apparently the [...]

November 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Signing off with the quack

Yesterday, some six months after my previous visit, I attended an appointment with my consultant at a London hospital in order to assess my progress since being diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the right hip. On the last occasion we met, as part of the experience, I had a second x-ray and a steroid [...]

November 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

A full day for once

One aspect of growing old is that you don’t have quite the energy stores of yesteryear. Yesterday I had a moderately busy time of it – something of a novelty in itself – the schedule for which involved going for a catch-up morning coffee with my daughter in a town just north of Oxford and [...]

October 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

God’s own country

Two rounds of golf in two days – if you’d asked me a week ago whether I could manage even one without a buggy, I’d have laughed at you. I guess you find out little about yourself until and unless you try. The Old Course at the Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club near Forest Row is one [...]

October 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

But how stiff will I be this morning?

Yesterday I drove to Petersham for a warm-up round of golf with my brother and a Canadian relation in advance of my brother’s annual tournament later today in the heart of the East Sussex countryside. Both outings are something of an annual tradition. With having to manage my ongoing hip [...]

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The cost of getting it up

I suppose it was inevitable that there had to be a downside to something which can give such great pleasure to the human race – and indeed indirectly cause it to perpetuate itself. This week media stories have it that the drug Viagra, which over the past decade or so has grown into considerable [...]

October 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

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