Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

2019

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October 29, 2019

Its comin’…

It’s comin’. The General Election that ‘everyone’ wants. Everyone needs. Everyone’s gagging for, chewing the bit, climbing the walls, simply MAD for. Its here. The Tories are desperate for it, because they need the majority in the House that they don’t currently enjoy. Labour would bite your arm off for it because its now time – Read More-

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October 28, 2019

First love…

Football was my first love And it will be my last… Football of the future And football of the paaaaast That was a pop song in nineteen something or other. Terrible bleedin’ song, so I changed the lyric a touch due to ‘artistic freedom’. Yet the sentiment is true. Football was my ‘first love’ and – Read More-

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October 27, 2019

Joking…

Have you seen Joker yet? Then you should. It’s remarkable. Brilliant. Mesmerising. And a bit brutal. Joaquin Phoenix plays the eponymous hero(??) in a study of a sick, warped and abused mind. Mel found it too long and too slow. Pretty much as she finds every movie due to her lack of patience with everything – Read More-

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October 26, 2019

If only…

If only Maro Itoje was our Prime Minister, and Kieran Read the leader of the opposition, life would be so simple. Because everyone would know their roles and everything would go like clockwork and there’d be no posturing, no posing, no cheating; no room for liars, procrastinators, deliberators or outright masturbators. As seems to be – Read More-

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October 25, 2019

Affluent…

Yesterday was Lila-day and I was sitting with her doing… whatever, when she just suddenly said; apropos of nothing; ‘grand-daughter’ and laughed. But said it properly, beautifully (she’s a posh bird, or will be once she masters ‘L’ and ‘G’… ‘J’… ‘K”….‘Z’…). And I said, ‘yes?’ And she repeated it as if the word itself – Read More-

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October 24, 2019

High flyers…

It’s always the same; the only sin in public life is hypocrisy. So they’ve gone and calculated the carbon footprints of lots of holier-than-thou and greener-than-green type ‘planet-savers’ to see if they ‘walk the walk’, rather than ‘fly the plane’. And it would appear that only Greta Thundberg is worth listening to without thinking ‘yeah, – Read More-

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October 23, 2019

Now you’re gonna believe us…

Well, it had to happen at some stage, I suppose. Spurs won a game. And not just won in any normal sense, but really, really WON! Beating Red Star Belgrade 5-nil at the Tottenham stadium. But its not really about beating out-classed Serbians, given a place in the top European competition on the grounds that – Read More-

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October 22, 2019

Different…

I’ve found another gender difference. And I’m just talking about the 2 ‘primary’ genders here, for simplicity, and because I can’t be bothered with the other 32 in between. In this context. But I’m always keen to find a good, honest, pure gender difference, mainly because that’s what keeps them ‘primary’ and prevents us turning – Read More-

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October 21, 2019

Guy Fawkes moment…

We elect a parliament to govern us. We delegate to them the running of our entire nation, a responsibility for which they are keen and eager. So why bother ever having a referendum? Ah, because it tests the will of the country. Or, more cynically, it allows government to blame someone else when it all – Read More-

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October 20, 2019

Football…

Talk about football? I don’t even want to think about football. It’s a horrible game that I used to follow a bit, just when nothing else was ‘appening. Which is in fact, 9 months each year. But now its just a horrible, racist, scummy, vile game and… and… and… And I don’t wanna ‘play’ any – Read More-

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