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Home Backup Systems, Part Three

3rd June 2025 Swiss Bob 2594 Comments

Four months on So far I am very pleased with it. No alarms, no problems and good customer service from both sales and technical support. I’m not saying other vendors aren’t as good but Pecron [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 1

28th May 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 1855 Comments

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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Home Backup Systems, Part Two

27th May 2025 Swiss Bob 2482 Comments

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…]

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Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?

26th May 2025 Northern Man 3283 Comments

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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Home Backup Systems, Part One

20th May 2025 Swiss Bob 4909 Comments

When I bought my first custom PC back in 1999, a Gateway machine with dual Pentiums (Only PC I ever had which actually did two things at once), one of the things missing living in [more…]

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Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister

19th May 2025 Going Postal 2072 Comments

Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned.  In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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California’s Medi-Cal implosion Explained

29th April 2025 Going Postal 2680 Comments

California’s Democrat socialist democracy, thanks to our one-party supermajority, is a sterling example for our country.  At least its chief architect, Gavin Newsom, hopes so for his 2028 ambitions.  His chief entitlement used to attract [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2423 Comments

Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]

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