Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

2018

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December 21, 2018

Whether the weather…

I might be in Australia but I’m a Brit. Therefore am at liberty to discuss the weather at any opportunity. And its an odd thing here. ‘Here’ being wherever I am at the time. Which was the Hunter Valley for the last 2 days and now its Sydney, to where I’ve returned. We’ve had a – Read More-

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December 19, 2018

Stralia…

OMG I just LOOOOVVVVVE Australia. I’ve been here less than 24 hours and Spurs beat Arsenal. At the Emirates!!! I love this place. It has a magic that… which… I feel… We beat Arsenal. And we beat them in their house. And we kept a clean sheet which we haven’t done in an away match – Read More-

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December 18, 2018

In good spirits…

Quantas planes no longer appear to bear the name Quantas. Instead they bear the legend ‘the spirit of Australia’. Almost as if that would be something to be proud of, even boastful about. I mean to me that’s like putting ‘Loud, brash and arrogant’ as your mission statement. Would that encourage business? Whereas in fact – Read More-

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December 17, 2018

Training…

The purpose of the trade unions was to stop exploitation of the workers. To give them rights, protect them from ‘fat cat capitalists’ who would otherwise have children up chimneys for tuppence a day. So what happens when the workers become the fat cats? Some tube train drivers earn over £100,000 a year. Many earn – Read More-

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December 16, 2018

Sense and sensibility…

I just walked off the tennis court without playing a stroke. Not in protest, I wasn’t wearing my yellow jacket. But because although it is a really beautiful morning and sunny and gorgeous and even much less frigid than yesterday, when I did play, its fucking icy. Not like sheets of ice, not hard ice, – Read More-

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December 15, 2018

C*** word…

Advance warning; the following may contain words that might offend some people. Tossers, granted, but sensitive tossers nonetheless. A minority, like all others, we have to fucking respect. Because I want to talk about C******. The football club, that is, rather than the people who go there. They get less **s. Because this week a – Read More-

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December 14, 2018

Man on the edge…

So you remember my ‘TIA’, right? Surely you do; you uncaring, forgetful know-nothing. My ‘transient ischemic attack’. I thought my left arm went funny for 2 minutes one Sunday morning before tennis and the next thing they’re blue-lighting me to intensive care and reading the last rites. Ok, a slight exaggeration, when I got round – Read More-

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December 13, 2018

Sorted…

OMG! What a day in Westminster. The biggest, most exciting, most productive, most decisive day since… Because Theresa May won over the entire parliament and is allowed to continue in ‘the worst job there ever was’ at ‘the worst time you could ever do it’. And when I say ‘the entire parliament’, I obviously don’t – Read More-

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December 12, 2018

Stay or go…

It was decided yesterday that we will emphatically NOT be leaving Europe. To leave would be a total national disaster whereas to remain ensures that we at least get to play in the knockout stages. You know: EUROPE! The Champions League. No-one has the remotest interest in that other ‘Europe’ the unmoving, intransigent, inflexible, dictatorial – Read More-

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December 11, 2018

They’re watching…

I had a bizarre event a few months ago. Well, it seemed it at the time. I needed to get a pair of glasses for a girl who’d lost hers and had to replace them with exactly the same, even though it was ‘discontinued’ and not available. I googled the model to see a photo – Read More-

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