Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

Andy Conway

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August 3, 2024

Brilliant…

It’s totally been the most, like, 100% bestest ever, like maddest, really insane week for Britain. Ever. Because we’ve been in the Olympics and we’ve won gold medals in sports that until last Tuesday I never knew existed. Yet in just one week, we’ve excelled in the rowing, we’ve bounced on trampolines, shot things with – Read More-

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August 2, 2024

true love…

So the thing about school holidays is that they cause a lot of work, even for grandparents. On a normal Thursday, between school drop off and the afternoon pickup lie hours and hours of peaceful inactivity. Whereas holiday days are full-on. Though realistically, is my life more peaceful with Mel or with Lila and Joey? – Read More-

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July 31, 2024

hot and cold…

This is now getting personal. Me and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. First we had ‘black-hole-gate’, into which Rachel Reeves blindly stumbled, and now it’s going to get much colder. Because La Chancellor has decided that the quickest way to pay off the 22 billion pound deficit in her mathematical ability is to get pensioners – Read More-

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July 29, 2024

Black Holes…

Oh. My. Goooooooooood!!! I’ve just looked at the nation’s finances and I’ve found… a massive black hole!!! Billions missing!!! Didn’t see that before because the outgoing government must have hidden it. Or covered it with… things. Or… Well, its an interesting question how you ‘hide’ figures in accounts which are 100% fully on public view – Read More-

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July 27, 2024

Olympian dream…

Its starting. The Olympics. Today. Paris. Though the opening ‘ceremony’ was yesterday. Pretty much all of yesterday. Went on for hours and hours. And being ever competitive the French showed us that they’re even better at rain than us. God probably hates the French too, so it absolutely pissed down upon the entire 9 and – Read More-

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July 23, 2024

Dear David…

This is a copy of the email I sent this morning to the Foreign Secretary of all of England, South London, North Manchester and Golders Green, Mr David Lammy MP. I’m so angry with him that I didn’t even put xxxx-es at the end of it. Happy Tuesday A xxx Dear David, if you’ll excuse – Read More-

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July 22, 2024

The First Jew…

It had to happen. For the first time in the 5,000 year history of the Jewish faith, one of our own will be living at the White House. Ok, for 4,800 years of that, there was no White House, and if there was it was referring to a little hut in the Judean hills that – Read More-

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July 21, 2024

Eve of destruction…

Last weekend I was deploying my new ‘super-strimmer!!!’, the one with the circular saw attachment, to cut down an old bush. My mate popped round. Quite a big deal because he lives in France, so we had to make a big fuss. (We put the kettle on). And then he told me that I was – Read More-

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July 20, 2024

Shut down…

We survived the pandemic. Well, anyone reading this did. Lots can’t read it, cos they died. Such is life. (Oh, the irony). But basically we survived. Collectively. What happened yesterday didn’t directly kill anyone but probably had a greater effect on our lives. Not just because of the devastation to travel, hospitals, trains and doctors – Read More-

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July 19, 2024

The journey…

So when last we spoke of The Brother, he was banged up in the Royal Free, having avoided dying of sepsis but trying to overcome complete organ failure. That was some months ago. And things were indeed looking brighter as stuff started functioning again and thus one more of his multitude of ‘life support’ could – Read More-

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