{"id":380,"date":"2026-10-24T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=380"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:19:26","slug":"album-archive-edition-20-bicker-fen","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/product\/album-archive-edition-20-bicker-fen\/","title":{"rendered":"Album: Archive Edition 20 &#8211; Bicker Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This collection continues our trawl through early 1992.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mingling With Toffs.<\/strong> \u00a0Why does Antoinette think Dennis is the very man? What\u2019s it got to do with the Fine Arts Society? What was a great honour? Why did Dennis have to put on the suit? And why didn\u2019t he know where he was? How did he get his hand stuck? What is a duck triathlon?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice Shed No. 5: Hake and Maggots.<\/strong> \u00a0Listener Martin has a problem with his wife Enid. Dennis has advice on being too polite, shopping bag hats and everlasting stew. Plus, he has plenty to say on the last piece of cake and &#8216;chewer or chewee&#8217;. Thought for the Week features Tarzan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice Shed No. 6:\u00a0Stout or Slim?<\/strong> A pair of portly partners ask for advice. There&#8217;s calamity poetry, Granny\u2019s solution to earwigs, the hypocrisy of mealtimes and how to get candyfloss off a dog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice shed No. 7: A Fen Curriculum.<\/strong> \u00a0What should people be taught? Dennis warns against the dangers of a too-tight basket on your bike and the hardness of tyres. Plus there&#8217;s wrapping your fish and chips right, talking to royalty, the slicing of a cake, and you\u2019ve never had it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hayden Catchpole.\u00a0<\/strong>What was Hayden Catchpole\u2019s skill? What did he do fresh every morning? Why did his platform say \u2018Ah\u2019 on the side? What was the secret of his stamina? How did he print his leaflets? Was he really electrified by the fault? What\u2019s the best way mollify a Windy Huts baby?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be warned:<\/strong> this collection contains bandaging buttocks, salad cream, longjohns, sofa mining, a gusset, decoy dandruff, verge veg, a pram wheel, balsam lozenges, a podium cubbyhole, grasping and striding, Monty Lardo, kissing babies, savoury tartlets, pre-Colombian folk narrative themes, late mediaeval epic calligraphy, chiaroscuro and mole-catching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Running time: over 70 minutes of pure Grunty Fen-ness.<\/p>\n<div>Available on CD or as a download.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"productGeneral biggerText\">\n<div class=\"rowWrapper\">\n<div>Listen to clips from the tracks on this album:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rowWrapper\">\n<div class=\"mediaTypeLink\">\n<div class=\"rowWrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mediaTypeLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/shop\/media\/AE20 Clip - 01 Mingling With Toffs.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"mediaClipType\">Mingling With Toffs<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mediaTypeLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/shop\/media\/AE20 Clip - 02 Advice Shed No 5.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advice Shed No 5 &#8211; Hake and Maggots<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mediaTypeLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/shop\/media\/AE20 Clip - 03 Advice Shed No 6 - Stout or Slim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"mediaClipType\">Advice Shed No 6 &#8211; Stout or Slim?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mediaTypeLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/shop\/media\/AE20 Clip - 04 Advice Shed No 7 - A Fen Curriculum.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"mediaClipType\">Advice Shed No 7 &#8211; A Fen Curriculum<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mediaTypeLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/shop\/media\/AE20 Clip - 05 Hayden Catchpole.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayden Catchpole<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clicking on any of the above links will let you hear a short bit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An album available as a CD or digital download.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-380","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-albums","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisofgruntyfen.co.uk\/wshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}