the signed photograph quest

http://www.annablack.com/hobbitism Knowing me as you do, you know that these things happen to me. Whilst having a quiet pint yesterday with my joint favourite German chap, in the best pub in London, we were forcibly, but politely interrupted by Luke (above)

“Do’you think I’d make a good Hobbit?” he said “I’m short enough and got the accent aint I?”

I enquired if  his feet were hairy enough. As these things are important to Peter Jackson.

“Don’t matter does it. They got special shoes aint they” he replied.

He was a nice chap (if a little overbearing and nottookeenonsamesexrelationshipsandpeople in a nice way – my German friends accent “we has been” was misheard as “Lesbian” and…) and he bought us a drink which was nice too. He was in a Phones4U advert a while back and used to have a ZX Spectrum +2.  He did however think that the @thesignedphoto project was a bit weird, but coming from a chap who’se main drive appears to be Hobbitism I shan’t take that to heart… :)

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http://www.annablack.com/organisation

This month I am mostly sorting the notes for my book. Only another 1000 odd people to meet :D

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http://www.annablack.com/thelankyhobo Just back from wild camping, tramping and hitching around the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

Met some genuinely kind and jolly people (and sheep) and got into a few scrapes and japes – so have plenty of stories to tell in the coming weeks (and a fair few APOTSPOAB’s* too) :D

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Ok… I admit this is getting silly now…but as requested “825 photographs in less than 1 minute?” !

Warning – please don’t watch this film if flashing lights and fast images affect you at all :)

Love Anna x

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Popped into the City on Wednesday to meet Andy from retrocomputers.eu – a veritable hub of all things retro micro computer.

Andy is a volunteer for the “The Centre for Computing History” in Haverhill, Suffolk http://www.computinghistory.org.uk and a jolly nice chap. He was recently at the Gadget Show in Birmingham displaying some rather fabulous SD/Flash add ons for various retro systems of which I am very  jealous! ;)

The Centre for Computing History also provides background retro computer bits and bobs for the excellent Channel 4 Comedy  “The IT Crowd” Andy was off  to watch a recording in Pinewood later in the week – so have to keep our eyes peeled for some rare items in Series 4. Hurrah!

Also, during a ZX Sinclair Spectrum part of the conversation Andy told me about the rarity of the 16K “Issue 1″ Speccy’s. Intrigued, I checked my boxed 16K when I got home and turns out that I actually own one! Hoopla! Thanks Andy! —-> See the “Issue 1 Spectrum” Page

Obviously of course we didn’t forget the most important part of meeting up and decided on a Fire of London-esque APOTSPOAB :D

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