Tony Blews

I need a new camera. And a new voice.

Let us face it, everything annoys me all the time. But currently some things are more annoying that others.

DNS:

Arsecakes. Fifteen years ago I could write DNS records in my sleep. Actually, I frequently did, but don’t tell Staffordshire University that, as they may want my wages back. So why is it that now I have no idea what I’m doing?

Ebay:

Okay, so I’ve identified myself using my credit card, and now you want another form of ID. As I don’t have a landline number, I click on the “identify yourself by credit card” link and… HOLY FLASH H. GORDON, you’ve taken another £1 from my card! Well, my auctioning friends, you can sod that!

Guitars:

I have quite a few guitars.  I own probably more than it is healthy for a non-musician to own.  My favourite, for a long time, has been a Spanish 3/4 size acoustic that a mate gave me about 15 years ago.

It survived 3 house removals, but sadly, it didn’t survive falling off it’s stand.

Broken Guitar!

I’m hoping that given enough strong glue I can fix it.

Does standing in a newsagent’s shop and reading a magazine, and then not buying it, constitute theft (in a very small way)?

Should, therefore, the likes of W.H.Smith’s have the right to remove any information you’ve gleaned from you brain as you leave the shop?

Dear W.H.Smith,

I have a power drill, and will perform lobotomies for free.

Yours etc.

Tony.

Nothing annoys me more* than having to push past “free readers” to get to my copy of Cat Torturer Monthly.

*Actually that is a lie. A lot of things annoy me more. French cars, for example.

Some photos of our day out at the Foxfield Railway, celebrating Bill’s forthcoming wedding.

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The Foxfield Railway is a former colliery line just outside Blythe Bridge. The Wikipedia article has more information, but doesn’t have this little map thing:

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The image was made using www.wordle.net.