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Happy New Year – Grunty Fencast Number 13

Dear Fencast friends,

Happy New Year, and here’s to you, one and all.

We thought you might like to spice up your new year by listening to a Dennis episode, and so we now bring you Grunty Fencast number 13!

And not only do we bring you a free episode, but we’d like to give you a reminder of our latest release – Archive Editions 18, which finishes off our trawl through 1993’s episodes

Once more, Mr South does his dogged best to get sense out of Dennis (which he does, in a way – just not in a way that might be considered normal. You’d think he’d be used to it by now.)

Their conversation is wide-ranging, as usual. Dennis talks about Maudie’s vitality, and Mr South calls something grotesque. Dennis has the best afternoon, which could be because Mrs Jeffreys was furious. Our hero has a visitation, tries to get to the bottom of George Robinson’s tales of fairies and then has to make a Mary. After all that, he explains why he had to look and listen through the hole.

Be warned, Archives 18 contains a wide variety of things, such as treacherous lino, Butterkist, a little shed with curtains, General MacArthur, rinsing tinsel, riffs, the presidential chair, the isolation hospital, smiting and begatting, a len, Mrs Sturgess’s Iris, the parallels, a sluice, a culvert, beet, Thawpit, the goldfish, a man with teeth, religious smoking, a mangle, a demon singler, looming nostrils, an exceeding high place, the Festival of Britain and pigeon droppings.

Please click here or go over to the Albums section of the shop to get your copy, either as a CD or download.

And finally, here’s your free episode for the New Year. Just make sure you’re not all of a doo-dah before you listen, because Dennis is exactly that. And it’s all to do with the telephone kossak outside the Post Office. Click here to start listening.

Happy New Year, everyone.

TAIYL

Miss Edwards

Grunty Fencast Eleven. Chris, Liz and Dennis

Dear Fencast friends,

We at Grunty Fennery are delighted to announce that episode 11 of our Grunty Fencast is now available and I’m sure you would like to know what it’s all about. Well, as you know already the character of Dennis of Grunty Fen was created and brought to life by Pete Sayers. Also present at the birth was Pete’s first wife Liz. A few years back Liz spent an afternoon with Christopher South who took the opportunity to quiz Liz about both Pete and Dennis.

The recording made at the time has recently come to light and is now ready for your consumption in the form of a Grunty Fencast. The Grunty Fencast is introduced by Carol Carman.  To hear the podcast please click here.

And as this posting is terribly close to Christmas all of us at Grunty Fennery would like to thank you for supporting Dennis and wish all of you in your household a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Meet the Author of our Grunty Fen books 24th March 2018

Dear reader,

It is with great excitement I have to announce that Mr Christopher South will be having an Event! If you would like to meet Mr South and put a face to the senior voice of Radio Cambridgeshire please do go along to Burrow’s Bookshop in Ely on 24th March between half-past ten and twelve o’clock. That’s a Saturday.

All of Christopher’s book will be available to purchase and to get autographed including the latest Customs and Folklore of Grunty Fen. I am sure the author will be very pleased to meet you – he does like to know who reads his books and what their gardens are like.

Burrows bookshop has a facebook page here :

https://www.facebook.com/events/953608204789617/

Best wishes

Miss Edwards

The original travelling salesmen

Hello there. Many people think that the Grunty Fen General Stores have been here for ever! But before my sister and I took over the little post office Grunty Fen was visited by characters such as this gentleman who would deliver and sell all matters of comestibles.  Everything from cement to elastic for under-clothing. Just you read the chapter on Old Rep in Christopher South’s latest book.

I learn something new every time I pick it up!

 

Where to buy Customs and Folklore of Grunty Fen?

Hello everybody,

Mr South has been busy visiting shops and adding more locations from where his books may be purchased. Here is his little list:

Ely :
Burrows bookshop
Toppings

Cambridge:
David’s
Heffer’s

Saffron Walden:
The Tourist Information Centre
Harts Books

St Ives (Cambridgeshire):
Just Cards and Thornton’s

Great Shelford:
Scotsdales Garden Centre

Soham:
Soham Books

And of course you can buy direct from Dennis’ shop:

http://dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=186

Or if you don’t mind paying the extra postage you can get it from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Customs-Folklore-Grunty-Fen/dp/0993013023/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509621839&sr=1-3&keywords=grunty+fen

So exciting!

 

It’s here! The new Grunty Fen Book!

Grunty Fennery and Mr South are delighted to announce that :

The Customs and Folklore of Grunty Fen

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is now available. This is the third book in the series written by Christopher South and is even more enjoyable than the previous two.

The nice young person, Annabel, at Burrows bookshop in Ely was the first to stock Customs closely followed by Toppings.  In Cambridge that lovely little bookshop, David’s, is your shop to visit for a copy.

Meanwhile, those lucky people that live in lovely Saffron Walden will be able to buy Customs locally; both the Tourist Information Centre and Harts Books now have stock.

And of course you can buy direct from Dennis’ shop:

http://dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=186

Or if you don’t mind paying the extra postage you can get it from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Customs-Folklore-Grunty-Fen/dp/0993013023/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509621839&sr=1-3&keywords=grunty+fen

Thrilling isn’t it?

Best wishes

Miss Edwards
Grunty Fen Post Office and General Stores

 

 

 

Two more Dennis albums available!

We’re delighted to announce that there are now two more Dennis albums newly released in our shop!

The Best of Dennis Volume 2 is about how it took a week to thread a needle, Gran’s picnic,  the creepy crawly cruet,  mudmogs, Dennis’s letter from The Queen and a film star stuck in a drain.

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The Best of Dennis Volume 3 is about the time Mr South got stuck in the privy, S-shaped rhubarb, Dennis’s Chinese dinner, taking Little Hayley to play in a music festival in Cambridge, and wart charming. Plus there are four songs to delight you: The Rhubarb March, Olly’s Spot, Queen Adelaide Waltz and Bird Song.

A must for all Dennis fans!

Please click here to go to the shop or click here to go straight to the page you need.