Culture
Personal Situational Awareness
Anyone who’s ever taken a moment to watch animals in the wild – birds in particular, can’t fail to have noticed they are constantly on the lookout for danger and predators, and are always primed [more…]
NeverUpToTheJob
Arts
Your First Steps Towards Superstardom And Guitar Hero Status (Part 2)
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…]
Arts
Your First Steps Towards Superstardom And Guitar Hero Status (Part 1)
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…]
Puzzles
Going Postal’s Monster 2025 News Quiz
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…]
Arts
A Fleeting Visit To a Great Museum
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…]
Literature
Product Review – VAX Platinum PowerMax Carpet Cleaner
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…]
Arts
Digitising Old Cine Films
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…]
Computing
Digitising Old Audio Tapes
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…]
Computing
Digitising Old Photographs
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…]