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Christmas Fencast and three new collections!

Dear Friends of the Fen,

We hope you’ve all got your extra thermal layers on as the weather turns nippier because suddenly it’s that time of year again when we bring you something new for your listening pleasure.

Our new Fencast is full of delights for you. Mr South quizzes our new archivist, Ian (see picture), about his knowledge of Grunty Fen, there’s a free episode from Christmas 1993 and you’ll also hear a bit more about the three new collections of episodes we’ve put together and which are available from Dennis’s shop.

Click Fencast for me, please to go to the podcasts page.

Archive Editions 12 – Scab sees Mr South asking such questions as:
What’s the secret of Esme Gartside’s hen house?
What’s a standard lamp doing in the Great Puddle?
What does Dennis think of the new President?
What’s the importance of a Yarmouth dartboard?

Archive Editions 12 features – among other things – African violets, a slither, a balaclava, dandelion and burdock, The Gibbet, Clara Butt, brake blocks, the string on a yo-yo, a tie press, pong, writhing, oo, Grandad’s uniform, the Duchess of Albermarle, illicit liquor, Hopalong Cassidy, Tizer, Shippam’s, nostrils, slot machines, spasms, caustic soda, halo glimmers, divine beds, knitted bathing drawers and Mrs Sharman’s corsets.

Click Scab for me, please to take you to the shop to find out more.

Archive Editions 13 – Gt. Harm finds Dennis enlightening Mr South on subjects such as:
What doesn’t Mrs Sharp stick out for Tarzan?
What’s rife up Pious End?
What Dennis has never joined?
Why was it a ‘two-pylon’ day?

Archive Editions 13 features – among other things – snuffing and pricking, snogging, an electrified doll, toffee apples, the Peek Frean, the War Office, an emergency po, a faintly glowing beak, fug and shag, Hudson’s soap, carbolic, icebreakers, frittering, Sagger’s Sheds, Mounties, Father Christmas, chafing, Nuaru, guano, boomerangs, beekeepers, a ghillie’s bothy, a final thrust, tight suits, conversions, banging, two long one short and a scrape, natural gas, fundamentalists, blandishments, Shippea Hill, knolls, cowlicks, linseed oil putty and amps and amps and amps.

Click Gt. Harm for me, please to go to the right page in the shop for more information.

Archive Editions 14 – Lt. Harm once again finds Mr South having his outlook broadened as Dennis educates him in such aspects of life as:
Why is Gran having a heavy wash?
What can’t the cat stand?
Why didn’t Beryl Burgess want to get her mouse damp?
What wasn’t Dennis’s mum very good at?

Archive Editions 14 features – among other things – a Fox’s glacier mint, a gas cape, breaking wind, Mrs Price’s narrow entry, holding two cherries, Digger Shag dottle banging, silverfish, a bobble hat, pig muck, a walrus, a horse-shoe, a concrete mixer, spring fashions, coley, singing, Old Mother Riley, nymphing experience, Bannockburn, Christmas cake 1974, the raising of Lazarus, sowbugs, I-spy books and Deanna Durbin’s hat.

Click Lt. Harm for me, please to go to the shop to find out more.

Thank you for your support once again both here and on Dennis’s facebook page. We couldn’t do this without you. My nervous sister, Miss Edna and I, on behalf of all at Grunty Fen, would like to wish you the very best of the festive season, and we hope the New Year is good to you.

Yours festively,

Miss Edwards

YouTube clip and New Christmas Fencast!

Dear Friends of the Fen,

It’s that time of the year again when we give you a FREE episode to listen to as a little Christmas treat.

This new Grunty Fencast brings a seasonal reflection from Mr South followed by the Christmas episode from 1991. When Dennis pops into The Bull, he finds that his friends and neighbours are having difficulty summoning up some Christmas cheer. Until, that is…

…well, you’ll just have to listen to it, won’t you?

Please click on Fencasts to go to our podcasts page, and Christmas Cheer is podcast number 6.

We’d also like to draw your attention to a little clip on YouTube, where you can hear a snippet from our new collection Archive Editions 8 whilst watching the big old tape recorder going round. To find the clip, please click Dennis and The Cheese Wire.

Don’t forget, our shop is always open for CDs, downloads, maps, and Mr South’s excellent books.

We’d like to thank you for your custom and wish you all a happy, safe and warm festive season and we look forward to being of service to you next year.

Kind regards,

Miss Edwards

Grunty Fen Post Office Stores

Dennis and the Christmas Social

As the nights are getting long and even darker than the days let us lighten your hearts with an episode of Dennis of Grunty Fen from 2002; the Christmas episode in fact.

Hear Dennis describing the Grunty Fen Christmas Social to Mr South.

Gasp at the Christmas decorations and their anagrams.

Wonder at the high survival rate of attendees to the Social.

Click the triangle to play the episode.

Think of this as a little Christmas present from all of us at Grunty Fen and Mr South (and poor Mrs South) to you. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

More Dennis episodes are available from the shop.