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Matt Andrews

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Engineering manager at GitLab. Formerly Economist, BBC, Guardian etc. Music nerd, cyclist, tired dad. Run a 20+ year old music webzine and still blogs sometimes, too! https://mattandrews.info/

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 18h

(apparently I "failed" because I walked in front of the car rather than behind it or something)

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 18h

I dumped him immediately after this taster lesson but even now I'm still annoyed at myself for not just handing him the cash there and then and saying "this isn't going to work, mate" and walking back inside the house.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 18h

Just remembered the driving instructor who told me to get in the car, waited until I sat down and buckled the seatbelt, then smugly said "you've just failed your driving test" and got filled once again with pure, unbridled rage despite this happening seven years ago.

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Just for a second you see a bright shell or a glinting rock on the sand, then the waves race in and pull it greedily back again, rushing through your fingers never to be felt again. The ocean just wears everything away and it's mesmerising, immovable, infinite. Couldn't stop just standing there.

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Been spending a lot of time just standing in the ocean letting the waves wash over me here in Portugal, and you can basically call me Legolas because the Sea-longing is affecting me powerfully.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 5d

Welcome to Portugal, I guess

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

The joke's on him as we're going on holiday tomorrow and I was going to give him some spending money anyway 😂

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

Also I hope no child heard the noise I involuntarily made when I reached the top of one of the walls and gingerly let go of it while Ted shouted "just jump down, dad!".

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

Took the 6 year old climbing to reward a good first term at school. Foolishly agreed to pay him a fiver if he made it to the top green pipe here. Forgot how motivated and determined he becomes when he can cash in.

Long story short I now owe him £40 after he climbed to the top of *every* wall.

A large set of green pipes with children climbing up them

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

I too started a (punk) webzine in 2003 and somehow found myself able to escape the 7000 person village I lived in and (briefly) end up on the guestlist for gigs by my favourite bands, interviewing them as a teenager with absolutely nothing of insight to ask them. It still boggles my mind now.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

PSA:

A photo of Frodo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings movie with the caption "It is 10 o clock in the morning on October 24th, if you want to know"

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 8d

Thank you Nick Mohammed for finally playing this game properly #celebritytraitors

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 10d

My six year old has entered his Hans Zimmer phase