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Playing With Electricity – Part 1

28th May 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]

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Why DOGE Has Failed

28th May 2025 Patrick Barron 0

After much ballyhoo and euphoria over Elon Musk’s DOGE findings, it now appears that the federal budget will not decrease one penny this fiscal year. What went wrong? As a long-time consultant in the banking [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; The Great Betrayal(s)

27th May 2025 Colin Cross 0

My loyal reader may remember an article I published, funnily enough, in May 2022 when I wrote about my encounter with a fellow in Bath and my resultant (and still current) flirtation with herbalism. I [more…]

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Home Backup Systems, Part Two

27th May 2025 Swiss Bob 0

What You’ll Need A Home Backup System, in my case (AC300 + B300K) Solar panels 405w £50 each Solar cable, from Bluetti with connectors and 50m cable only from Electrical World Solar cable crimper Staubli [more…]

20th Century

Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?

26th May 2025 Northern Man 0

Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe.  The science was settled and the experts agreed.  The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]

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Another disappointing week

26th May 2025 well_chuffed 0

In the USA it was all supposed to be habbening, only it didn’t. Over here Starmer is supposed to be toast but he still lingers and the anchor baby was supposed to be facing a [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Twenty-Nine

25th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Enjoyed your article SB. I follow these four vlogs: Domaine Sauvage Diego Leon Utube (not the footballer) The Irish Homestead Our Small holding Adventure These are not strictly off-grid but they use some of the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Two

25th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s a bit cloudy this morning and I see, according to the forecast, it’s going to rain in London later this morning. Legohead held a presser this morning to [more…]

21st Century

Big Boys’ Rules

24th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

In yet another BBC documentary on the subject, a Panorama edition entitled Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes dropped on 12th May and investigated serious allegations against UK Special Forces, in particular the SAS and [more…]

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