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Sternely Mullan My Phic Spelling

13th December 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

At Going-Postal in general and QT Review in particular, we pride ourselves that nobody reads the comments, nobody reads the articles, and at least one proofreader (me) can barely read and write. I’m often pulled [more…]

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From Tangible to Digital: The Shift from Physical to Virtual Media

18th November 2025 Going Postal 0

In the past few decades, we’ve witnessed a profound transformation in how we create, share, and preserve our memories and communications. The digital revolution has reshaped the landscape of human expression, moving us from the [more…]

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To Digital ID or Not to Digital ID?

4th October 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Above, my mother’s ID card from back in the day. House points to any Puffin who can tell us when, where and why. The prime ministerial launch Meanwhile, decades later and across the waters, Prime [more…]

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Today’s 200th Anniversary of The Railway

27th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

This weekend sees the 200th anniversary of railways – or at least of the first steam locomotive-hauled passenger service, which took place on the Stockton to Darlington railway 200 years ago today (27th September). On [more…]

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The Shock of The Modern

13th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Besides excitement and trauma, might the shock of the new also provide a synapse re-ordering adrenaline burst that remodels the brain? As a little boy the make-believe near-future modernist world of Thunderbirds (and the like) [more…]

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Solar Panel Installation for Dummies

8th September 2025 Going Postal 0

I thought I might share my limited knowledge and experience with fellow GPers regarding solar panels or solar PV. From Wiki: ‘Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the [more…]

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The Only One in The World?

6th September 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

I’m a great believer that surges of adrenaline reshape the connections in the brain in the way a deluge of flood water might reshape a river valley. You are not the same person after an [more…]

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Do You Still Believe Anything You Read?

1st August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Apologies in advance to Larry and his scribe WorthingGooner for pre-empting part of this coming Sunday’s ever popular and always entertaining Larry’s Diary, but something has cropped up and I think all G-P authors, commenters [more…]

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Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

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