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26th November 2017 Sweaty Dave 1264 Comments

As many people do, I spend all day using computers. My spare time, when not not reading comments on here is usually spent, again on a computer or phone or occasionally watching TV. With the [more…]

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Baking bread with Going Postal

8th January 2017 Sweaty Dave 1 Comment

With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]

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Give a man a fish

10th December 2016 Sweaty Dave 1 Comment

A poster asked a question about what would the assembled despicables of GP recommend as a hobby now the nights  are long and the weather foul. The most popular recommendation seemed to be railway modelling [more…]

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