peter grose
The Third World ... and Welcome To It*
I‘ve just spent a couple of weeks in Cuba. If I were the Cuban authorities, I wouldn’t let me in again. The first time I came here, back...
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peter grose
- Sep 14
- 3 min
Where's yo' bin?
Our local commune of Saint-Pierre d'Oléron, quite rightly, nags the hell out of all of us over rubbish. We are told that sorting the...
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peter grose
- Jul 15
- 3 min
Let's hear it for BF
Ben Fox (above) has always been nice to me. I was nice to him in an earlier blog (July 19 2021: America after the horrors) where I said...
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peter grose
- Jun 14
- 3 min
The elephant not in the room
When I was a young lad in Sydney, Australia there was a category of jokes called 'shaggy dog stories'. What the connection was between...
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peter grose
- Jun 8
- 3 min
A mighty zephyr
It's hardly a state secret that I supported the independent Zali Steggall (pictured above) in the seat of Warringah in the recent...
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peter grose
- May 22
- 7 min
Been there, got the T-shirt
Sunday 22 May 2022 It will not have escaped your attention that Australia held a national election yesterday, nor that the odious...
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peter grose
- Apr 27
- 5 min
Elle of a fight
Elle magazine is something of a French institution. It comes out weekly, looks as good and reads as well as any monthly, and is regularly...
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peter grose
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min
It ain't easy
Back when I was learning to fly (about 200 years ago!) the first thing I was told was that before take-off I shoud take a good look round...
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peter grose
- Aug 1, 2021
- 1 min
Take a sneak look
It's probably wise if I don't say too much just now. If you take a look at the video below, it won't take long to work out that it's part...
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peter grose
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Astonish your friends
I don't like to make rash promises, but with luck this will be my last word on the subject of Covid-19. I've created a kind of Venn...
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peter grose
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Meals on wheels
I first heard the expression food truck in Wellington, New Zealand. Ophelie, the daughter of our next door neighbours, had moved to New...
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peter grose
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
America after the horrors
If America emerges still standing and still smiling after the combined and related horrors of Donald Trump and the Covid-19 pandemic, it...
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peter grose
- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
A narrow escape?
We’re just back from Paris, a trip which marks our first substantial voyage in 16 months and our first trip to Paris in 20 months. Since...
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peter grose
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Tuck in
It wouldn't be France if food didn't enter the equation somewhere. For years I've agonised over whether I'd been a total hypocrite after...
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peter grose
- Jun 11, 2021
- 7 min
A tale of few cities
A handful of newspapers and other journals around the world are starting to pick up on a theme I tried to give voice to in my last blog...
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peter grose
- May 30, 2021
- 3 min
Right jab
Rant alert. Sorry, folks, but I'm well sick of people trying not to sound smug while asking me how things are in France Covid-19-wise....
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peter grose
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
A mighty wind?
Christopher Guest's wonderful faux documentary about the folk music pandemic that swept the world in the 1960s was titled A Mighty Wind....
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peter grose
- Mar 18, 2021
- 38 min
As I was saying ...
I really don’t know where to begin with this. You are now reading from my ‘new’ web site at www.petegrose.com. At the urging of my then...
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peter grose
- Mar 14, 2021
- 2 min
Make a note
Make a note of today's date . . . 14 March 2021. It could go down in history as the day Joe Biden was at long last rumbled. Whatever...
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peter grose
- Feb 12, 2021
- 4 min
I can dream, can't I?
I wouldn't take too much notice of what follows if I were you: it's the purest speculation. But, as the headline says, I can dream, can't...
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