Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

Andy Conway

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December 26, 2014

partridge in a pear tree…

Who needs a partridge in a pear tree?? Unless they’re holding a shotgun at the time, like Prince Edward’s son and heir, and its hunting season. For those who like semi-mouldy birds filled with lead pellets. Unlike me. I don’t like ‘game’ particularly. Much as I don’t like West Ham particularly, and they lost to – Read More-

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December 25, 2014

pop-pickers…

I spent half of last night watching Mel scribbling down tips for cooking a turkey from first, Jamie Oliver’s Cockney Christmas Cooking C-C-C-programme (wasn’t called that but he does enunciate somewhat abysmally and if you don’t add the ‘cockney’ as some kind of intention then he just becomes a little street-urchin who can cook), followed – Read More-

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December 24, 2014

what would you do…

if I sang out of tune; would you stand up and walk out on me? The wondrous Joe Cocker took those words, previously sung so… er… so… so mediocre-ly by Ringo, and elevated them to a new plane. And elevated himself to superstardom at the same time. Woodstock time. Yet more cast-iron proof that excessive – Read More-

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December 23, 2014

happy daze…

Spurs won again. For the 3rd time 7 days. Swansea, Newcastle, Burnley; we even won a league match at home. And that never happens. Lamela scored a scorcher, starting to pay off his (outrageous) price-tag already. Its only been 18 months and that must be his third league goal. But more importantly, as the young – Read More-

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December 21, 2014

Christmas Day…

“Jesus Christ!!!!” exclaimed the CEO of a massive, mulit-national retail perveyor of semi-erotic underwear, “this is Christmas, for fuck sake, it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ”. (Well, he could have done, couldn’t he? I might have made it up but I might not). What have we become? Where have we ended up? What – Read More-

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December 20, 2014

end of interview…

The movie The Interview, written, directed and starring Seth Rogan, will doubtless be full of nob jokes, sexual innuendo, bare breasts, slapstick and probably would be quite funny. For which, in order to interpret such things, you need nothing more than ‘a sense of humour’. Which is banned in North Korea. Along with most other – Read More-

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December 18, 2014

crisis averted…

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1961 is finally over, just 53 years after it began. The world can relax once more, phew. Relations of a diplomatic nature can be resumed once more between the largest of Caribbean islands and its massive, continental neighbour who lives about 50 miles away. And that’s a great thing. Its – Read More-

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December 16, 2014

hero…

I have a cold. Such a bad cold, its actually approaching the lower limits of the dreaded ‘man-flu’, a terrible condition which renders the sufferer unable to function in any normal way and can lead him (always a him, doh: man-flu) to lie inert for several days watching re-runs of Match of the Day and – Read More-

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December 15, 2014

asteroids…

There was a meteor shower on Saturday night. It comes every year on the same day, December 14, early in the morning. So I went outside at about midnight when our dinner guests left, stood there for about 2 minutes and was absolutely amazed by the sight. There was nothing there. Sod all. Not a – Read More-

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December 14, 2014

not working…

1 Chelsea 16 23 39 2 Man City 16 19 36 3 Man Utd 16 12 31 4 West Ham 16 8 28 5 Southampton 16 12 26 6 Arsenal 16 9 26 7 Newcastle 16 -4 23 8 Swansea 15 3 22 9 Liverpool 16 -3 21 10 Tottenham 15 -3 21 I generally – Read More-

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