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
Oct 14, 20213 min
My Sunk Cost Fallacy, Sunk
Home alone yesterday morning, I devoted my breakfast exclusively listening to an hour of the Chieftains playlist on Spotify, in honour of...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 11, 20213 min
What does 3.5 billion look like?
On a bluff at the confluence between the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, you will find a monument, one whose implications are truly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 7, 20214 min
Gone
The first tiny shards of Spring were apparent yesterday; an exuberant great tit singing from the beech hedge here, a bold snowdrop there....
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 27, 20213 min
On Being Unwanted
Mother Teresa knew a thing or two. And, in her own words, one of the things that she knew was ‘that the biggest disease today is not...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Sep 17, 20203 min
Rage, rage against the dying of the Light
An urban myth runs that Dylan Thomas spent so much of his life drinking himself into a stupor at Brown’s Hotel in Laugharne, South Wales,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 21, 20203 min
The Strange Joy of a Nameless Map
‘There’s a silent voice in the wilderness that we only hear when no one else is around’. In a couple of weeks’ time, I have to walk...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 11, 20203 min
The Forty Page Rule
I have read around 2600 books in my life. You’ve probably done the same, give or take a few hundred either way. Years ago, I had a rule...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 3, 20203 min
Bottled…
I am in an ‘exceptionally’ high risk category, apparently. Having spent much of my life trying to be exceptional, this pleases me. It...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 27, 20193 min
Loving my post SAGA world
For the last thirty or so years, I have helped to run a roving cricket team. In exactly 400 matches of the club’s history, of which I...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 15, 20193 min
Anything Greta can do….
There is a model of the old person I don’t want to become. He lurks somewhere in a damp pool of intolerance in a members-only golf club,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 22, 20193 min
Veterans
In these digital days, the act of walking a letter down to the village post-box is a rare and slightly cathartic one, and there is...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 14, 20193 min
Tales from the wrong room
My favourite character in Under Milk Woodwas always the mad Lord Cut-Glass, with his 66 clocks all set at different times, his dog-dish...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 10, 20193 min
Why ties cause national chaos.
Not long ago, I was refused admission to an event, on the curious basis of my not wearing a tie. No big story there, I grant you. The man...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 24, 20192 min
Dinosaurs Leave Big Footprints
A new girl at the office asked me at lunch if I had photos of my grandchildren to show her. If my Budgens Creamy Coleslaw tasted a bit...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 13, 20194 min
I have seen hell, and it looks like this
My spirit animal is a Manx Shearwater, and simplicity is why. Sometime in the late summer, the Shearwater takes off from its west coast...
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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
May 12, 20193 min
Wind in the Bloody Willows
‘More often than not’ said the moral philosopher Peter Singer, ‘there is a compromise between ethics and expediency.’ Too bloody right...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 2, 20193 min
The Dung Beetle
There are 1,267,069 words in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, 9,609,000 characters spread over 3031 mesmerising pages. I expect that you...
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