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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Download HERE the latest SID*tastic Anna Black Anorak from the home of Commodore 64 remixes SLAY Radio

As usual there was a C64 LIVE in the studio playing SID’s as they should be heard. An extra long show this week due to the rather large amount of games to be loaded from the Brighton Commodore 64 Swag

207 mins of retro computer things :D

* SID = Sound Interface Chip – the Music chip of the C64

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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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