Fourteen quid, that cost me
She gave me a shilling once, but that was long before I sat in the barber’s chair. He and I started on summer holidays, but went quickly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 31, 20223 min
Something had to give
Bear with me. It will get easier. There is an exquisitely complex theory about ecosystems, of the sort that I suspect I only read up on...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 24, 20212 min
How a bag of tea could save the world
Back in 1962, the ex-wandering Jain monk and tireless campaigner for peace and the environment, Satish Kumar, started a walk from the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 31, 20212 min
The Joy of Socks
If you were to google ‘making people happy’, you would find around 7.8 billion threads to follow up. Ironically, this is within 1% of the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 8, 20213 min
When the Words Stop
In the end, one shared glance was enough. Enough for that promise that just about any conscientious dog owner has silently articulated to...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 28, 20213 min
A Lesser Man
After twenty-seven years of marriage, you notice things. And the thing that I had started to notice was that, every time Caroline found...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 3, 20212 min
I contain multitudes
‘Do I contradict myself?’ ‘Very well then,’ continued the American poet, Walt Whitman. ‘I contradict myself. I am large. I contain...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 31, 20203 min
The Bonfire of the Certainties
Exactly a year ago at this moment, Caroline and I were jumping in the car to head down to the Crab and Lobster in Sidlesham for an early...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 25, 20202 min
Little Brother of the North
Normally, each October, I give up alcohol for the month. I haven’t this year, partly because I conveniently forgot to start, and partly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 18, 20203 min
The Tyranny of the Cooker
In the garden of 73, Church Street in the Nottinghamshire village of Southwell has stood the same tree for a very long time, like about...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 24, 20202 min
‘Please leave in Porch’
‘Nothing,’ a journalist who had stolen the idea from someone else once told me, ‘is ever as good or as bad as we lot make it out to be.’...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 10, 20203 min
Dear Rishi
Dear Rishi First of all, thank you for my furlough cheques. To be honest, I normally thank myself each time one turns up, on the basis...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 31, 20203 min
The unbearable joy of uselessness
‘We are what we repeatedly do’ said someone who may or may not have been Aristotle. In which case, I am a Jaffa Cake. Whoever it was who...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 14, 20203 min
In the Darkest Days….Sock Pelmanism
These are strange days, but I still have 26 pairs of socks. Without wanting to lift a lid on my marriage, it would be fair to say that my...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 14, 20204 min
16,303 reasons to pass this on.
‘The longer we delay’, said Ban Ki-Moon, one of a long line of UN Chiefs with delightful names, ‘the more we will pay’. When you become...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 9, 20203 min
PS. It’s Real.
I was never any good at science at school, apart from locust sexing, the concept of which, being a normal 13 year old boy, I found...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 9, 20193 min
How one Equation changed my life.
You probably know all this. Newton’s third law sets out that, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. By this strange...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 18, 20193 min
I should have listened to Annie
Annie Macdougal, who helped my Granny keep her Isle of Mull cottage clean and tidy each Wednesday morning half a century or so ago, had...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 16, 20194 min
The fine art of utter incompetence
I think we can agree it was sub-optimal. Cricket is a statistical game for statistically minded people and, by any measure, the raw stats...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 8, 20193 min
Finding my inner supermarket hero.
We all know her. We have seen her a thousand times in the rear-view mirror of our ageing lives. Because of her, we drive more carefully,...
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