{"id":139,"date":"2025-11-03T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/?post_type=product&p=139"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:20:37","slug":"album-archive-editions-3","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/product\/album-archive-editions-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Album: Archive Edition 3 – Blight Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every week <\/span><\/b>the erudite, educated Mr South would go to Grunty Fen, sit in the ancient Wolseley car that served as a hen-coop and interview Dennis, the fenman who – according to another Grunty Fen resident – put the ‘common’ into ‘common man’.<\/p>\n

Every week<\/span><\/b> Mr South was left bewildered and despairing, having been beaten into submission by Dennis’s Fen Logic.<\/p>\n

Recorded in October 2004, Archive Editions 3<\/span><\/b> is another window onto the bleak and bizarrely wonderful world of Dennis of Grunty Fen. This collection:<\/p>\n

– brings us the ultimate survival tool, The Universal Shovel;
\n– shows us that the arts are alive and kicking in the Fens in surprising ways;
\n– demonstrates a perfect example of a hadnabinfer;
\n– contemplates the absent-mindedness of Fen folk;
\n– reveals the startling contents of a refugee Ukrainian shepherd’s ancient stew.<\/p>\n

These episodes feature (amongst much else):<\/span><\/b> a miniature egg-cup, thatching, a lady in a wheelbarrow, musing, ruminating and cogitating, a Royal Lancashire Regiment cap badge, a cotter pin off a Hercules and a mistake with the bathwater.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t know what a hadnabinfer is<\/span><\/b>, you’ve probably still got your eyebrows. But this collection will explain it for you, don’t worry.<\/p>\n

Running time: over an hour of Grunty Fen life to get you musing, ruminating and cogitating – not to mention laughing – for yourself.<\/p>\n

First broadcast: October 2004<\/p>\n

Available as a CD or a zipped-up mp3 package.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The tracks on this album are:<\/div>\n
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