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Shunting Puzzle

26th November 2017 Sweaty Dave 1264 Comments

As many people do, I spend all day using computers. My spare time, when not not reading comments on here is usually spent, again on a computer or phone or occasionally watching TV. With the [more…]

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Baking bread with Going Postal

8th January 2017 Sweaty Dave 1 Comment

With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]

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Give a man a fish

10th December 2016 Sweaty Dave 1 Comment

A poster asked a question about what would the assembled despicables of GP recommend as a hobby now the nights  are long and the weather foul. The most popular recommendation seemed to be railway modelling [more…]

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Concorde – End of an era

11th May 2016 Sweaty Dave 0 Comments

Initial thoughts of such transport were started in the 1950’s, focusing around the required wing shape necessary for both supersonic flight and low speed manoeuvrability, but it wasn’t until the Anglo-French accord of 1960 that [more…]

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