John Grindrod

The most wonderful time of the year

De-linting a phone’s navel so it charges again is a real crossover of medieval and modernity

Woken up thinking about Outside by George Michael, whose video was shown on a Top of the Pops repeat. Surely the most glorious fuck you in all of pop

Oh blimey! That is special skillz

SPEAK UP

I think there was an hour in 1996 where I felt like I was in step with the world. Not a clue before or since.

Woman in TV department showing us all the old people settings on a new set, talking loudly and slowly about how we could watch Coronation Street if we miss it. Feeling good.

Idiots.

Popped into the shopping centre. We’ve gone to Christmas by mistake

Amen to that!

For me the Stone Roses were the opposite of the Smiths, because the bass and drums were the stars

Reskeet with a time you looked cool.

You win

It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe

In the meantime you can catch up with my previous guest, John Boughton, sharing his most monstrous municipal dreams, in all of those nice podcast downloady listeny type places they have now. johngrindrod.substack.com/podcast

Been editing next week's Monstrosities Mon Amour and it involves a lot of laughing, ingenious Victorian engineering and pub microwaved curries. Can't wait* to share it with you.

*am actually waiting one week

British Rail Travellers-Fare menu from 1975

3 Chinese runners led by Qu Yunxua in the 3000 metres race at the 1993 World Athletics Championships

(More running obsessiveness of a 1993 sort on my most recent Substack) open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

Went for a run this afternoon and my ears still hate me

That is very kind of you x

Hey! Thank you so much!

First reader review just in from bookstagrammer canreadwillread www.instagram.com/p/DROqhJfDNy...

The nasturtiums have gone bonkers

Still loads of stuff flowering in the garden that’s not going to enjoy this snow

She is with us always (or in my CD player at least)

Running/Planning No apologies for sharing another curious obsession, this time with how Wang Junxia and the Chinese runners of the 1990s have helped steady my nerves. Plus event news.

New Substack post, on another curious obsession, plus event news
johngrindrod.substack.com/p/runningpla...

Fun, eh?

Yeah it all crashed and burned didn't it?

Luckily was able to download a backup...

Phew, cheers. There seems to be a problem more generally, it's internal server errors all over the place on their site, so maybe they're down at their end.