Author Archives: Richard Grainger

POSTCARD FROM POLAND. End. The. Lockdown. NOW!

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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I’ve just run for an hour and a half in the woods. It took me over an hour get that bloody song: “Come on Eileen” out of my head. To make it worse, I found “COVID 19 … oh, COVID … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND CORONAVIRUS DIARY, DAY 121

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Now then, how’re you all coping with this China flu thing? Onto bleach and detergent injections yet? Me? Hmmm … Actually I’m not coping all that well, to be honest. If this were a WWl trench that I found myself … Continue reading →

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BREAKING NEWS! THE WORLD IS FLAT!

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Taken from The Times, Monday 17th April 2045 Belgian-Dutch Study claims that the world is flat. Recent research commissioned by the International Council for Science (ICSU) claims to prove that the world is flat and not round, as had hitherto been … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND CORONAVIRUS DIARY, DAY 4 LOCKDOWN BLOODY LOCKDOWN

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Day 100 So, amigos, how are you coping with this Chinese Virus? And before you say it … I’m not being racist, I’m just being honest. The joke doing the increasingly irritating Twitbook rounds pretty much nails it. If you … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND CORONAVIRUS DIARY, DAY 3 LOCKDOWN

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Day 91 I promised myself I’d not blog about Coronavirus again. But there’s nothing else to blog about. It’s worse than bloody Brexit, isn’t it? Last week we decamped from our home in Wroclaw to the sleepy Silesian small town … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND CORONAVIRUS DIARY, DAY 2 STILL NO LOCKDOWN

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Day 79 Still no lockdown. Wroclaw is a city – if not in denial – at least in the final throes of a phoney war, but one, I fear that is likely soon to become attritional. There are, as I … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND CORONAVIRUS DIARY, DAY 1 – LOCKDOWN APPROACHES

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Richard Grainger

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Day 74 Coronavirus – or Covid 19 as it’s better known, first appeared on 31st December 2019. It’s is the last thing I want to blog about but I’m going to, for three reasons: I’m bored There’s nothing else to … Continue reading →

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CHRISTMAS CARD FROM POLAND – FEAR OF CHRISTMAS

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Richard Grainger

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We flew into Stansted on the wet and windy dawn that heralded the endorsement of the Boris Dynasty; a political sovereignty probably destined to rival that of Thatcher’s for durability, controversy and the same lack of credible opposition that swept … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND – A TALE OF TWO IRISHMEN

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Richard Grainger

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I’m back in Wroclaw after ten days mainly spent watching the rain in Spain, which defied the cliché, by falling on the coast … rather than mainly on the plain. But this morning I find that my habitual writing venue … Continue reading →

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POSTCARD FROM POLAND – WORLD CUP … WHICH WORLD CUP?

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Richard Grainger

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I’ve not blogged for ages and that’s mostly because of the World Cup. By World Cup, I mean the World Cup, the one where dump truck-sized blokes get knocked out cold and the result isn’t decided by people with ponytails … Continue reading →

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