John Grindrod

Amazing what they can do…

Panic over. He was back today. Seemed to have a Bluetooth headset on, so had clearly fallen through a wormhole in time back to 2006

Longish run featured geese, a robot and lots of running club people walking

Borusa

‘Has anybody got any Veras… in their new town census?’

Gesundheit

It was for us

The big star of Strictly this year is the Milton Keynes bench in the group dance

Yeah, they really carry the whole thing so lightly

Caught the last half of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid earlier and had forgotten how non-verbal it is. Goldman must have had a lot of faith in the director

“Here’s a song that I cannot stand. I just cannot stand this song. But what the hell.” – Sinatra introducing ‘Strangers in the Night’ in a November 1975 concert in Jerusalem

He clung onto his career by creating music he didn’t believe in, now that music is all most people know of him. So it goes.

Lots of boxes of straw full of suspicious honking

All the greylag geese have gone from the lake, like they do this time every year, suggesting some magnificent migration but more than likely just splashing down in Tring

Sharing common interests Farewell to Terry Farrell and Jonathan Main, and introducing three fascinating new books

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

Olympian effort

Riding the Urban Monorail in Chiba, Japan … the longest suspended monorail system in the world.

American Fiction is currently on iPlayer. Treat yourself

I saw that! It actually made me want to do a sequel talk now. But your book is going to be ace

Woohoo! So looking forward to this (not the washing up)

It’s been beautiful to see how much everyone has rallied round

Sharing common interests Farewell to Terry Farrell and Jonathan Main, and introducing three fascinating new books

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

Ha!

As a non-academic I always get surprised if I get a citation alert from Google Scholar. There’s no ‘category error’ button

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

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Lovely to be interviewed for this!

Great photos and so good to see how well it’s come back to life

Space House, 1 Kemble Street, London — Photos of Modern Buildings Photographs from a recent 20th Century Society tour of the brutalist office tower, Space House in Holborn. Designed by Richard Seifert & Partners.

In Brutal London @grindrod.bsky.social wrote of Space House: “… an exciting shape filled with space-age verve, a building that looks as if it might be equally at home circling the globe in orbit.”

Here are a few photos from a visit with @c20society.bsky.social

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There is a...magnificence...to this

Detached home in arts and crafts style

Detached home in arts and crafts style

Detached home in arts and crafts style

Detached home in arts and crafts style

New: The 1911 House and Cottage Exhibition, Gidea Park: 'a late example of the local landowner as entrepreneur; the social ideals of the garden city and Arts & Crafts movement [and] shrewd land investment to establish a discrete high-quality suburb'.
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Extraordinary memorial service for @booksellercrow.bsky.social today, who will be so much missed in Crystal Palace. There’s a fundraiser to help support Justine and the bookshop www.gofundme.com/f/bookseller...