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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

Customs and Folklore of Grunty Fen covers

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.

Fen Tigers on USA Radio!

In case you missed it,  Dennis’s theme tune, Fen Tigers, recently made it onto American airwaves, courtesy of a duo called Fingermouse and Rubberneck!

The two musicians – Tom Few and Simon Murfitt – are just about to release their first record, but in a move which surprised all of us, ended up playing their version of Fen Tigers on WPSC Brave New Radio in America on their Ukulele Day! All of us at Grunty Fennery would like to thank Tom and Simon for their very enjoyable tribute to Dennis.

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