Liz and the Doubly Thankful Villages
We die twice; once when we actually die, and once when those who remember us die. As a former soldier, I have developed a little informal...
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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 4, 20222 min
You, Ukraine and my walk.
As many of you know, I am setting off on Monday for a 1,000 mile walk from Lymington to Cape Wrath. A bit bonkers, but it’s not exactly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 25, 20223 min
Finally cured by a detour to Saginaw
A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest. When I was about seven or eight, I had this fancy that my parents would one day...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 21, 20222 min
The Secret Shame of Tamworth
‘Failure,’ as Henry Ford never tired of pointing out, ‘is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.’ So,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 17, 20223 min
On being a lesser man
In every sense, it is the calm before the storm, whether it is tomorrow’s weather, or my 1,000 mile walk in two and a half weeks’ time. I...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 4, 20223 min
Love and the Boris Letters
I first came across the concept of love as a phenomenon that reached beyond mere families, when my parents came home one day, rather...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 28, 20223 min
Me and Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf was sort of cool in my family until Tom was about thirteen, and someone at school told him he (Meat Loaf) was ‘properly shite’,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 18, 20222 min
Steps
It is not up to me to pass judgement on his faculties, but the last President of the United States was allegedly keen on expressing the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 30, 20213 min
Puffin Pie
My ambitions for 2022 amount to little more than our young football team winning the World Cup in Qatar, and neither Boris Johnson nor...
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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
Dec 19, 20214 min
End of Spoons
My first pay packet came to me in September 1976 in a barn, in the form of an envelope that had £15.20 in it, being forty times the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 10, 20213 min
My Obituary. Flat-packed.
By far and away the best email I have received in the last week was the one from my regimental association asking me to present the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 8, 20213 min
Love your Inner Neanderthal
If you had a load of money to burn, and used some of it to take a sophisticated genetic test, the chances are that you would discover...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 30, 20213 min
Tonight, you can change the world.
Just how weird these times are is underscored by the fact that, when I took treats out to the three Border Leicester sheep I am looking...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 21, 20212 min
Why go?
The last time I flew anywhere was 21 months ago, when I came back soaked and knackered from a hectic week of bird research off County...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 16, 20213 min
Heading North
I think that we all have a predisposition to look in a certain direction. Mine is just west of north. Not fjord north, walrus north or...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 9, 20213 min
My Little Town
On a sultry night in New York, just over forty years ago, two unassuming Jewish boys from Queens District stepped onto a stage, looked...
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