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John Grindrod

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Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Next book on suburban LGBTQ history out March 2026. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. New podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · Mar 8

If you fancy a cheery listen my podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour explores places that bring joy which usually get a bad press. The Radio Times said it’s ’a breath of fresh air.’ Contains whimsical asides and geekery podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Monstrosities Mon Amour

Places & Travel Podcast · 4 Episodes · Monthly

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 8h

Writing this card at the Post Office Tower. We have just been up the top looking at a lovely view, you could see Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge & lots of other famous places. On Monday we went to the cinema and had dinner at a Wimpy Bar.

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 15h

In Morrisons cafe. They’re playing Kraftwerk’s The Robots.

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 18h

Ah thank you so much!

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Oh my god! Thank you so much! It’s lovely to make, one a month someone gets really enthusiastic at me for half an hour. It’s like a shot of caffeine

John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 19h

- Grafton Car Park, Worthing, with Travis Elborough
- The Savoy Centre with Rose Ruane
- Junction 3 of the M32, Bristol, with Gareth E Rees
- Brighton Marina with Angela Barnes
- Minster Court with Philip Downer
- Swindon with Helen Barrett
- Corby Bus Station with Mike Althorpe (the London Ambler)

John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 19h

There’s now ten episodes of Monstrosities Mon Amour available! That’s a lot of cheery chat about unloved and unfairly maligned places… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- The Golden Mile with Kathryn Ferry
- The Drum, Margate, with Dan Thompson
- The Blue Bridge with Catherine Croft

Monstrosities Mon Amour

Places & Travel Podcast · Monthly · In Monstrosities Mon Amour we celebrate places and things that have been unfairly monstered in popular opinion. Host John Grindrod will be your excitable guide to a...

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 1d

Save us, The Traitors!

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Just when I thought I couldn’t love Minah more…

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Looking forward to The Celebrities The Traitors but in my head have already conflated it with Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

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One of them had a National Trust pen

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All of the greylags are back at the lake acting all casual like they’ve been up to something

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what they can do…

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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

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

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Borusa

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

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Gesundheit

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It was for us

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 4d

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

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, they really carry the whole thing so lightly

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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

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 4d

“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.

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of boxes of straw full of suspicious honking

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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

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Sharing common interests

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

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