Nothing Stops The FAS!!

It's one thing having your head stuck in 1971 with the music and the press to work on the FAS, because you are writing about it, but it really is quite freaky to relive it in 2022 as a reality!

I know what, let's all go on strike for 20% wage rises, have threats of power cuts, rising inflation, national unrest. Oh, we have that now... Seriously, does what goes around truly come around? It seems it does! History really does repeat itself and teaches us NOTHING! Wasn't that a song by Sting in like, 1987 or something? 

Due to the nature of the current postal worker strikes in the UK, and the random nature of the announcements of them, I'll start the posting out of issue #165 next week. This will hopefully bring some small modicum of cheer to the pre-Christmas mash-up of forced merriment and shopping, shopping and shopping. Along with Slade, Wizzard, Cliff Richard, crap supermarket adverts, DREADFUL REPETITIVE Christmas songs in the shops and, of course, the horror at the expense of it all! Bah, Humbug!

This FAS 'care package' will start with the mailing out to America, Japan and Australian on Monday (5th), then Europe straight after that, and finally the UK around the 10th. Once everything has been mailed I'll put the usual magazine overview up here so you'll know the issue is on it's way.

Regards the 'Festivities'... Treat yourselves well, and look after the ones you care about. Spare a thought for those who may be on their own, especially those who have lost loved ones, and be patient with all the idiots (yes I know, there are a lot of them). Be nice to each other. Tell your friends how much they mean to you, and raise a glass to those no longer with us. Sometimes it just seems like everything is shite, but it really isn't. Good people will continue to do good things. Strive to be one of those good people.

You'll be getting another FAS after the New Year has faded from focus a little, to help with hangovers, and the brutal truth of how much you owe on your credit card. In the meantime the diary for the next section dealing with 'Free At Last' is almost complete, and I'll be sitting trying to make some sense of it all over this whole period. The FAS NEVER sleeps!