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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

Report from the front line …

Hello. I haven’t troubled the scorers in the ongoing unofficial Rust contributors ‘most prolific poster’ competition for a while. Nevertheless, I am happy to return to the fray this morning, hard on the heels of the news that Jo Pavey, the 47 year old middle distance runner, will be [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Easter weekend musings

Here’s another of my reports from the fitness front line, hampered as it is slightly by the callus or growth – you’ll have to excuse my lack of medical knowledge – on the ball of my left foot and the Achilles tendon yank/chronic inflammation which has troubled me now for seven months. [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Printer Scam

It  is assumed that everyone has a printer and it works. A few days ago this sign appeared on my printer. I could not find the manual so I googled the error. I discovered from a video that the manual recommends one thing – repair or replace – but the clever user found a way that you [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Waking and sleeping hours

With the lock-down in full swing and Boris now in intensive care a degree of monotony is descending upon the Ingolby household. You can only undertake your daily routine … collect the newspapers, make breakfast, deal with correspondence and bills, listen to the radio, watch television, go [...]

April 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

A nagging reminder of how great I am

Have you ever sensed that glorious feeling that you are a complete genius and the rest of humanity minnows? I know I have. Although I must admit that as time slips by in this modern world actual instances of the phenomenon are becoming rarer and rarer, I had one on Wednesday. Let me expand. As part [...]

April 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Teething problems with a new fitness campaign

As Rusters share their experiences of the Coronavirus lock-down here comes an Ingolby dispatch from the front line as I begin my latest doomed fitness campaign. Being one of the freelance Rust correspondents laid off by the publishers on Monday who received a batch of Huwaei smartphones as a [...]

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Infamy, infamy … they’ve all got it in for me

Today I can report – from the front line of a sixty-something’s quest for fitness – that I returned to the gym last night for the first time in three weeks in the pouring rain and managed twenty minutes on an exercise bike and a cursory tour of the weights area before returning home [...]

March 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fitness, health and phones in the modern world

I suspect this – my latest report from the front-line of sexagenarian super-fitness campaigns – will merely go to underscore the truism that ‘oldies’ have it tougher than any other generation. Okay, we baby boomers started it all – with the Yippies’ rallying call of “Never trust [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

The subtle art of letting it creep up on you …

Ageing is a weird process because every living thing does it without ever – I suspect – fully knowing (or should that be ‘acknowledging’) it. Every dog begins as a ball-of-fluff puppy, acts like one until they’re about eight or even ten and then gradually turns in to a wheezing, rarely [...]

February 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Investment matters

Later this month investors in Neil Woodford’s flagship fund Equity Income will receive their first pay out since it was suspended – known as “gated” in the trade. “ Equity income” is a misnomer as the equities were mainly private companies and illiquid (he could find no market [...]

January 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

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