Two Hobbies
All the way down eastern European rivers such as the Danube and the Elbe are buried so-called ‘hunger stones’, laid down during droughts...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 16, 20223 min
Got the Badge….
Rather in the same vein as the extraordinary size that the venue would have had to have been if everyone who says they were there,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 9, 20223 min
‘I think you’ll find….’
Happy days are here again. Writers of all shapes and sizes are finally back on the road again in front of audiences in town halls, shops ...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 25, 20223 min
My Nearly Virus
‘If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,’, said Albert Einstein ‘it will spend its whole life thinking it is stupid.’ He is...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 2, 20213 min
The Gaviscon Monologues
‘Every ass,’ runs an old English expression, ‘likes to hear himself bray.’ Not always. Not this old ass. A few weeks ago, the company...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 16, 20203 min
The Rocks Remain.
It was surprisingly emotional. Sixteen months of my life came to an end on Wednesday afternoon at about 4.30, when the Danish gaff-rigged...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 28, 20203 min
Impostor alert in EC1
If you wanted to be an officer in the British Army back in the day, you had to pass a selection board down in Westbury, Wiltshire, called...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 4, 20193 min
Maybe….
‘Maybe this time,’ sings Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film, Cabaret, at the beginning of a wistful song of almost certainly dashed dreams....
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 30, 20193 min
Sloths. And how books happen
Every writer bangs on about what happens when the words don’t come. It’s called writer’s block. But no one talks enough about what...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 6, 20193 min
The worst thing you will ever read. Ever.
I subscribe to the Mark Twain dictum that a ‘classic’ is a book that ‘people praise but don’t read’. We are frequently told, for example,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 4, 20193 min
Getting my Awe in
None of us have a clue. Soap operas reveal their developing plots- if that is the right word- slowly, and the shifts and changes are the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 10, 20193 min
Words
Having written somewhere between a third and a half of a million of them in the last year, I gave words a week off whilst on holiday last...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 28, 20193 min
Polishing You Know What
They say you can’t but, believe me, you can. There are authors, painters, sculptors, rock groups and god knows who else who manage little...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 12, 20193 min
File Under ‘Miscellaneous’
No one actually buys a filing cabinet. Filing cabinets just appear in your house one day and, like that annoying Patek Philippe...
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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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