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Meet the Author of the Who’s Who of Grunty Fen

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Dear Reader,

That lovely gentleman from the BBC, Mr Christopher South, will be in Ely on Saturday 24th March at Burrows Bookshop. This will be an ideal time for you to get your books signed. Including, of course, The Who’s Who in Grunty Fen and extract of which is attached.

Mr South will be discussing Who’s Who  and his other books with anybody who would care to attend his event at Burrows Bookshop, Ely on March 24th. The Burrows Face Book is here

 

 

 

 

The particular “Who” this sample page refers to is MOTHER MARJORY (fl. 1490)
Founder of the Theory of Duality of Purpose
and originator of the edible poultice.

 

Best regards

Miss Edwards
Grunty Fen Post Office and General Stores

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Meet the Author of The Authorised Guide to Grunty Fen

Dear Reader,

That lovely gentleman from the BBC, Mr Christopher South, will be in Ely on Saturday 24th March at Burrows Bookshop. This will be an ideal time for you to get your books signed.

 

I can recommend The Authorised Guide to Grunty Fen. A splendid example and the first of Mr South’s Grunty Fen trilogy.

Below is an example of one of the pages of the Authorised Guide to give you a flavour of the work of Mr South.

 

 

For further details of the event in Ely please contact Burrows Bookshop :

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

Kindest regards

Miss Edwards

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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

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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!

 

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Best of Dennis Volume 5 is reissued

Hello,

The cassette version of volume 5 featured Dennis with one of his rude root pictures.

We are all very pleased at Grunty Fen to hear that Dennis’s shop is now able to supply the Best Of Dennis Vol 5 on CD or a digital download. This is a collection of Dennis episodes originally released on cassette tapes.

To quote Mr South “This compilation features a wide variety of subjects involving mince, custard and gravy, army life, tortoises, the mysterious spirituality of the hadnabinfers, strange offerings in supermarkets, Gran’s bloomers, budgie cages and the light harvest festival. ”

Dennis spoke  on several occasions about the hadnabinfer problem but I’m no closer to an understanding. Listen to Volume 5 yourself and then perhaps you can explain it to me.

Volume 5 is only available from Dennis’s shop in this location.

Fond regards

Miss Edwards

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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!

 

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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

 

 

 

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A new book from Mr South

My nervous sister Miss Edna and I are thrilled to tell you that Mr South has finally written the third book in his series about Grunty Fen! Called The Customs and Folklore of Grunty Fen it’s currently being looked at for spelling and will be available this autumn.  I’m told that the book will indeed, using numerous pictures and words, describe the customs and folklore of Grunty Fen.

I’m particularly looking forward to the description of some of our local dances – “Celery Nellie” being a favourite of my youth and illustrated here (photo from Mr South’s latest book). I was not present on this particular occasion due to stocktaking.

We’re just giving you fair warning about the book at the moment – we’ll let you know once it’s published. Keep your eyes peeled!

Kindest regards
Miss Edwards
Grunty Fen Post Office and General Stores