Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

March 2025

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March 30, 2025

Fast and furious…

I wanted to drive from age 2. They wouldn’t let me. Bastards. I had to wait til I was 14. Because my brother’s mate, also-Richard, was given a van for work when he was 17 and he took me to a little airdrome in Romford which had been converted into a faux road system for – Read More-

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March 29, 2025

no prisoners…

I appreciate that not all Republicans are aggressive, domineering, scornful, malicious, lying, denying, avoiding, side-changing, disloyal, anti-Europe, anti-UK scumbags. Only the ones we see on tv. And most of the others. Who have three approaches to any question: deny, lie, shout. Even simple and easy questions like: what level of incompetence does it take to – Read More-

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March 27, 2025

Car crazy…

The Lord Trump has issued a decree!! That henceforth and forthwith and foreverafter, (until his next brainless whim), there shalst be a tariff on ALLL imported cars in the WHOLE of the United States of America, of 25%!!! And so it is written. Amen. This will cause major fuckage in the UK. Because 20% of – Read More-

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March 26, 2025

Life after…

Ok, so 70, for some reason, has become the latest… thing. Everyone’s turning 70, or thereabouts, so you get articles like this one, showing you what to do so that when you approach that terribly awful number of years, you’re not just still alive, like with a tube up your nose and a walking frame – Read More-

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March 25, 2025

unreservedly…

I’ve found a great and unquestionable difference between Americans and English people. And it is that we, the British, tend to grow up. With time. Over years. As you’re supposed to. We also develop an intrinsic and instinctual understanding of age-appropriate behaviour and responses. Whereas Americans, on the other hand, tend towards stupidity and retain – Read More-

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March 24, 2025

Predisposed…

Mel and I sponsor a local cultural event: the Proms at St. Judes. We do every year. It’s a series of musical concerts; classical, jazz, some pop/rock, in all manner of styles, over a two week summer period at ‘our church’. The one we might go to if we: a. Were Christians, b. Went to – Read More-

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March 23, 2025

The problem with boys…

The difficulties with young men and boys has become so great that they’ve wheeled out Gareth Southgate to solve it. Like he solved the ‘how to win a World Cup problem’ during his tenure as England football manager. But he is a really nice bloke. The problem is that boys are ‘lost’. They want to – Read More-

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March 22, 2025

Stand by your (wo-)man…

Sometimes its hard to be a woman… They need to re-write that song. Changing the next line from “giving all your love to just one mayun”, to, possibly, “especially when she has a penis”. Or even “so I’m changing to be a mayun too”. They rhyme doesn’t matter; its country & western. Nothing matters. But – Read More-

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March 21, 2025

inflation…

The Office of National Statistics has to work out whether we (the entire economy, not just you) are suffering from inflation, and to what extent. So they use a ‘basket’ of representative goods and services, 752 of them, and see how the price of these things change from quarter to quarter. And I’m worried that – Read More-

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March 17, 2025

Tale of two cities…

Spurs were at Fulham yesterday. In the league. And were doing ok. Well, they hadn’t conceded, were actually playing abysmally, but nil-nil at 70-plus minutes is pretty much all we can hope for, and as its better, mathematically, than 4-nil down, I was happy to take it. For the time being! Meanwhile later that evening – Read More-

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