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What have they done?

27th August 2020 Rookwood 4066 Comments

I generally hate supermarkets. Memories of being dragged by my neurotic mother, quite probably screaming, around the shops as a dysfunctional, short-sighted and asthmatic child probably doesn’t help much. While most people focus on the [more…]

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Holography, Part Two

26th August 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 3647 Comments

A Holographic Camera Standard photography uses a lens system to focus an image onto a film or an electronic sensor. If you recall from part one, Dennis Gabor had a problem with his electron microscope’s [more…]

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Car Review: Renault Type AI Sport CT

21st August 2020 Tachybaptus 3430 Comments

It was after the third accident in the pony trap going down Pitsford Hill that my wife said to me, ‘We really ought to buy a motor car. After all, this is 1910 and we [more…]

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Nouilles a la Cnut

20th August 2020 El Cnutador 3700 Comments

As many of you know, I am something of a foodologist, responsible for such delights as this delicious meatloaf: and other such culinary masterpieces for example this 1″ thick sourdough failure that worked nicely as [more…]

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Hydroxychloroquine and Abortion – Helen Whately, Minister of State for Care

20th August 2020 James Dalton 3253 Comments

“Two weeks…” was the refrain back in March when the world’s media got hold of the COVID-19 story following the outbreaks of the virus in China, then Italy, at the beginning of what was soon [more…]

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19th Century

Holography, Part One

19th August 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 3209 Comments

Introduction To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said, “I’ve a sceptre in hand, I’ve a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be Come dine with the Red Queen, the [more…]

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Review: Kärcher WD2 Wet and Dry Vacuum

18th August 2020 Going Postal 3246 Comments

I’m not someone who usually suffers from FOMO but having purchased a new wet & dry vacuum recently and seeing as it is de rigueur to post reviews of vacuum cleaners on GP I thought [more…]

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At the next junction, turn left

18th August 2020 rattuscatchus 3433 Comments

It was whilst approaching a junction where the options are to turn left or go straight ahead – I was going straight ahead – that I had to move slightly to the right as there [more…]

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Car Review: Volkswagen T-Cross 1.0 R-Line DSG

14th August 2020 Going Postal 3338 Comments

As GP has recently turned into an alternative source of information for the motoring enthusiast, I thought I would join Always Worth Saying and Phil the Test Manager in writing a motoring review. We took [more…]

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