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Aspiring Anorak Aversion Therapy

24th October 2019 Going Postal 3292 Comments

The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]

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The Last Hurrah for ‘Global Warming’?

16th October 2019 Going Postal 4392 Comments

One of the areas in which the UK has lost control  during its membership of the EU is that of being able to respond to the climate change agenda. True, both the UK and the [more…]

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Big Shed

19th June 2019 Sweaty Dave 3970 Comments

In my last piece I talked through the attempt to refurb a lawnmower, replacing the rusted body, which is now back to happily chewing all it crosses, without spitting bits out at random. As long [more…]

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An Afternoon at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

20th May 2019 Tom Pudding 4141 Comments

Although we moved from Yorkshire to the South Coast 38 years ago and despite living only two miles from his premises in New Milton, I had only once previously visited Sammy Miller’s wonderful motorcycle museum [more…]

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Project Mower Refurb

8th May 2019 Sweaty Dave 3627 Comments

It is the Easter holidays. The Missus is at work for the day, so I’m not being dragged around the shops, the kids are revising/ generally avoiding dad. I’ve pottered for a day or so [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 3285 Comments

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Seven

25th February 2019 Tom Pudding 3505 Comments

Introduction By the 1860s it had become obvious that the days of the muzzle loading firearm were numbered and that any government that failed to re-arm its troops with breechloaders would quickly be left behind [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2302 Comments

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Five

4th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2268 Comments

Introduction By inducing a projectile to spin around its own axis its flight is stabilised and accuracy and range are vastly improved. Rifling a barrel by cutting spiral grooves in a variety of forms and [more…]

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