Engineering
Shunting Puzzle
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…]
Articles by Sweaty Dave
Cooking
Baking bread with Going Postal
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…]
Hobbies
Give a man a fish
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…]
Engineering
Concorde – End of an era
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…]