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Your First Steps Towards Superstardom And Guitar Hero Status (Part 2)

11th March 2026 NeverUpToTheJob 0

In Part One of this two part series about launching a career as a guitar superstar, we considered how to assess whether or not you have any musical ability, and looked at what is involved [more…]

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Your First Steps Towards Superstardom And Guitar Hero Status (Part 1)

4th March 2026 NeverUpToTheJob 0

While hanging out on the GP night shift the other morning, someone asked the following question, rather out-of-the-blue: “Never, is it your good self who plays in a popular beat combo?” I replied: “No mate. [more…]

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Going Postal’s Monster 2025 News Quiz

31st December 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

Have you, your family and friends been paying attention this year? Here’s a chance to find out, with GP’s news and current affairs quiz featuring 160 topical 2025 questions. The questions are divided into categories, [more…]

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A Fleeting Visit To a Great Museum

30th October 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

There are surely few greater joys than visiting a top flight museum, and getting close up and personal with some of the great creations of mankind. It could be a visit to Duxford to see, [more…]

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Product Review – VAX Platinum PowerMax Carpet Cleaner

20th October 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

Like most so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’, I’m always more interested in what’s been swept under the carpet, than what’s on the carpet, but this changed when I simply had to pay some attention to the carpet [more…]

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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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Moribund?

27th February 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

A picture that tells you all you need to know about Europe (aka The EU). The gravy train is a very small club, and you ain’t in it. The proles can eat cake, and can [more…]

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