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Grunty Fencast Number 12, a new CD and a plea from Miss Edwards

Dear Fencast friends,

Before we get onto the main business, please can you check that you’re still receiving emails from us (if you want to). If not, please can you add dennisofgruntyfen@hotmail.com to your ‘safe senders’ list. And if you’ve changed your email address since joining our mailing list, please can you let us know your updated address? We’ve been getting a few bounce-backs to our emails and we don’t want anybody to miss out.

If you’re not on our mailing list, please contact us on info@dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk and we’ll add you. We won’t bombard you with stuff; we’ll just startle you with an email a couple of times a year, that’s all.

Thank you.

Now…

Throw your hats in the air and shout ‘Hurray!’

My nervous sister Miss Edna and I are cock-a-hoop because we have reached our dozenth Fencast!

And not only do we bring you a free episode, but we’ve also released a new compilation – Archive Editions 17. Continuing our trawl through 1993’s episodes, we bring you five new old tracks from September and October of that year.

It’s another glorious collection of Dennis and Mr South at their best. First, Dennis gets out his John Bull Printing Set when he changes his career but the results aren’t quite what he expected. Then there’s going to be a visitor to Grunty Fen, and it’s got someone very anxious indeed but who’s coming, and why? In the third episode, Mr South finds Grunty Fen wetter than ever, but why is Dennis so cheerful about it? And then the BBC Current Affairs Directorate sticks its nose into things again, wanting to know why crime in Grunty Fen is so low. Finally, we find out whether Mr South is wet or dry, and what’s happening right under Dennis’s nose.

Be warned, Archives 17 contains a wide variety of things, such as a jar of pickled onions, a roll of lead, gargoyles, jittery vicars, feathery frocks, Erasmic, Spam pasties, a knowing look, shiny trousers, mollified flies, hymnals and hassocks, the Mullard, funeral cards, Oily Ollie flapping his doors, cheese straws, fuchsias and a butcher chasing a pig.

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 Easter. Enjoy it before, after or during your Easter bath, which funnily enough is the subject of the episode. Click here to start listening.

Happy Easter, everyone.

TAIYL

Miss Edwards

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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

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Easter Fencast and New Collections!

Dear Friends of the Fen,

My nervous sister Miss Edna and I are delighted to announce not one, not two, but THREE new things for your listening pleasure.

First up is a new Fencast for Easter, in which Mr South explains more about Easter in Grunty Fen followed by an episode from 1991 all about Easter Traditions in our favourite bleak, damp and flat location.

Click Fencast, please to go to our Podcasts page.

Next, we have Archive Editions 10 – Slapp, which poses such questions as why is there a moose in the Miscellaneous Shed?
Where does Dennis take the Christmas fender?
Why doesn’t he want his gusset scrutinised?
What new enterprise is he considering?

Archive Editions 10 features – amongst other things – the chewing-gum valve, chamois leather, a full chamber pot, the Enclosure Acts, rubbers, an Elastoplast, Queen Salote of Tonga, pipecleaners, ullage, Weasenham St Peter, knolls and gorges, mudmogs, sink tidies, chicken muck, waterboatmen, cowlicks, a Stygian morass of miasmic effluvia and a moose’s nostrils.

Click Slapp for me, please to take you to the right place in the shop to find out more.

And finally, we present Archive Editions 11 – Windy Huts, which raises various subjects including Dennis finding a key in a very unusual place, an easy-going young man called Ziggy, the etiquette of bus stops and mystical forces from beyond this realm.

Archive Editions 11 features – amongst other things – Gran’s drawer, mauve fried bread, gentleman’s fragrance, flooding, an ambulance, pot plants, Ambrose, quiffs, apologies, an angel with the monk on, lady wrestlers and Cyril’s trilby.

Click Windy Huts for me, please to take you to the Archives 11 page in the shop.

Thak you once again for supporting us here at Grunty Fen. We wouldn’t be here without you. Happy Easter!